I don't know, perhaps it is just me, but the notch space "reduction" seems pretty meaningless to me. The vast majority of the time that is blank menubar space. I guess if you use full screen mode a lot or have dozens of menubar icons it could be a pain.
Watch the “Hot Coffee” documentary if you’d like to learn the truth about that suit.
Documentaries are never truthful.
The woman in that suit was under an NDA. The only thing the public ever knew about it was what McDonald’s PR team wanted out there.
Plenty of windows machines have huge amounts of storage space and they will still sell you OneDrive, or Dropbox, or Google Drive, or box, etc. The cloud is more than just storage. And of course you are always free to just not buy it. Some of these conspiracy theories just get out of hand. I bet apple also puts code in iOS to purposely slow down your phone right before the next model to make you upgrade as well.....
With all the hype that's been built up by the media and elsewhere I was planning to render Toy Story 12 on it!😝
"Everyone else" is making some big assumptions. There are plenty of valid use cases for wanting to keep data locally.
The mcdonalds coffee lawsuit was actually legit you know. McDonald’s knew their coffee was too hot, and it was made and served above safe temperatures even though they knew better. This isnt anywhere close to the same thing
It moves the menubar up to take the place of the bezel though, so it really does free up space underneath on the main screen area
A lot actually, since the base model only have 8GB of RAM, meaning once you start running multiple apps, swapping will occur, and the much lower SSD performance will affect responsiveness. Now that might be fine for, let’s say, a $600 laptop. But this is a $1200 laptop (or $1500 of he M2 13” MacBook Pro). This kind of cost cutting measures shouldn’t be acceptable for a premium positioned product.
I actually doubt this is a cost issue. Buying a single higher capacity chip is actually typically more expensive, not less. I’d bet this is a supply chain issue, chip shortages are a major problem right now. It probably simplifies supply chain issues above the base too for apple since they likely use two of these same 256gb chips in the next most common model - the 512gb version.
This article was REALLY late to the table. The internet was buzzing about this a week ago...
If you don’t need 512—don’t buy it.
It used to be 128 GB SSD and 4GB RAM for base MacBook Air in 2013. I know because I had to pay to upgrade both.
Exactly. I remember years ago when I was pondering a MacBook they were a little over $1k. Then boom the price flew up, and now a 16" is $2450 "on sale" Wish they would make 16" Airs for a lower price.So this is an awesome topic. My wife and I started out in 2015 buying the base Airs and using them for a few years then upgrading. 2017 we bought a midline MBP and noticed the enjoyment factor was a lot more. In 2022 I finally went loaded M1 max and ... yeah... I can say that the enjoyment factor is 6x a base MBA for me. Of course price difference is crazy and I can use it for work if I want.
We got a base MBA from Best Buy for like $700 in 2015.
Midline MBP in 2017 was $2800.
And of course the loaded M1 is more than double the 2017.
So let's say $950 every 2 years vs $2800 every 3-5 years (my wife is still using her 2017 MBP today).
The price difference isn't all that much once you start going out that far, especially if you trade in.
We traded in our 2015 MBAs for almost 50% of what we paid for them. About 40% for my 2017 MBP.
I noticed the resale on the M1 Max is bad... lol. So if you're looking to save $, near base models and trying to keep them for 3 years is probably best. All depends on what you do I guess.
I'm planning on keeping the M1 Max for 5+ years if I can. It'll be the first laptop that I even want to attempt that in.
I agree especially when the increases are slightly better. Now years ago, speed increases were definitely noticable. I would never ever go back to a magnetic drive after getting my first SSD. Look away for an instant and it's at the login screen.
This is totally accurate, but exists in other markets too. If you want a huge amount of horsepower in a car you can buy a chevy corvette. If you want the same amount of horsepower in a Mercedes or BMW you will pay lots more.
This is the story of tech since it existed. Apps start to push the hardware until it crawls; new hardware comes that blazes with current Apps; then the cycle repeats over and over...
