Macbook 12" meets Macbook Air. I'd sell my M1 Air for that! Miss my 12er
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Bloomberg: Apple Working on 'Thinner and Lighter' High-End MacBook Air With MagSafe, Could Launch in Second Half of 2021
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Music to my ears, especially the lighter part. This is why it doesn’t make sense to future proof one’s purchase today.
This is disgusting. I just bought an M1 and now Apple is going to make me upgrade again in less than a year? Apple should have sent out an email letting prospective buyers know ahead of time.
Now that I think about it, this M1 has been acting sluggish lately. If this M1 can’t handle watching cat videos on YouTube, what good is it?
This M1 isn’t even the pro model. How can I be expected to work on a standard M1? It doesn’t come with a GPU, Face ID, or a case of beer, not to mention the base model should come with no less than 16GB RAM and 512 SSD. I feel like Apple ripped me off. This M1 is worthless now.
Apple has really been letting us down on the hardware lately, especially with the M1. Every time you turn it on and or connect it to an external monitor it dies.
I see this new M Air will be thinner and lighter. The memory of Ives lives on. Apple is showing so much courage with this new Air. There is no innovation with Apple anymore. If Steve was still alive....
I just saw a video on YouTube saying how bad this new upcoming model is not worth it and the new Forbes article agrees.
Where is the best place to sell my M1? It looks like I will be upgrading to the new Air when it is released.
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I am looking forward to the new and improved M MacBook Air.
Now that I think about it, this M1 has been acting sluggish lately. If this M1 can’t handle watching cat videos on YouTube, what good is it?
This M1 isn’t even the pro model. How can I be expected to work on a standard M1? It doesn’t come with a GPU, Face ID, or a case of beer, not to mention the base model should come with no less than 16GB RAM and 512 SSD. I feel like Apple ripped me off. This M1 is worthless now.
Apple has really been letting us down on the hardware lately, especially with the M1. Every time you turn it on and or connect it to an external monitor it dies.
I see this new M Air will be thinner and lighter. The memory of Ives lives on. Apple is showing so much courage with this new Air. There is no innovation with Apple anymore. If Steve was still alive....
I just saw a video on YouTube saying how bad this new upcoming model is not worth it and the new Forbes article agrees.
Where is the best place to sell my M1? It looks like I will be upgrading to the new Air when it is released.
* These typical statements were picked at random from data submitted to Apple. No MacRumors members were outed in this data although the usual suspects are easily identified.
MacRumors has already received complaints about the cat comment and cat owners have vowed to boycott MacRumors.
I am looking forward to the new and improved M MacBook Air.
What do you want MagSafe charging for? Just get a MagSafe USB-C cable?
Yep, and if you want thinner and lighter then use an iPad. I don't understand the 13 inch laptops at all when you can get a 12.9 inch iPad?
With almost every pc brand having ultraportables under a kilo, an 1.27 kg laptop called Air as a lightest option is just embarrassing for Apple.
Well, weight is functionality. Thinness is brand, looks, and fashion. Should be an indication about Apple's priorities.
They never should’ve abandoned MagSafe
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What do you mean? Why would you use a computer to shave?
That’s what your Apple Card is for.
The Air is looking more and more like the laptop to purchase. Insane battery life, plenty of power, no fan, and priced right.
Pushing the envelope is good, as long as you're willing to do the right thing in terms of accountability and responsibility when you do inevitably push it too far. If you make an iPad that's so thin that it can get bent when carried in the padded laptop compartment of a backpack - a 'reasonable usage' scenario - but then just shrug your shoulders when the problem comes to light then I'm not sure that's worthy of a hat-tip.
I'm so over the endless obsession with thinner and lighter. I'd prefer a machine that is slightly thicker and heavier if it runs cooler and has longer battery life. Or at least that on the Pro models.
If they keep the price at 999 I may consider a trade in with my current M1.
But lets be honest it won't be. Wasn't with the redesign in 2018 either.
But lets be honest it won't be. Wasn't with the redesign in 2018 either.
Slap a 1080p camera, and a kid-range graphics option like the RTX 3050, or whatever is the newer equivalent at the time.
Haha I knew it. Just because they got an efficient chip, they immediately looking to make things thinner. This tells me to grab the current M1 MacBook Air once I’m ready.
Uuuh this is interesting even to someone like me who bought the M1 Air the day after it was unveiled...
Thinner bezels = OK
Lighter = OK but it's already pretty light
Thinner = NO it's already thin enough
MagSafe = nice to have it back
Upgraded processor (M2) = SLURP
Better screen (miniLED?) = WOW but it's fine already really
USB 4 = nice futureproofing
Thinner bezels = OK
Lighter = OK but it's already pretty light
Thinner = NO it's already thin enough
MagSafe = nice to have it back
Upgraded processor (M2) = SLURP
Better screen (miniLED?) = WOW but it's fine already really
USB 4 = nice futureproofing
The thought of a 15" MBA M1X is the very definition of awesome.
As it stands now, I'll just have to pay an arm and a leg for a 16" even though I don't need all that sustained power. I just want the real estate with something powerful enough to smoothly edit graphic intensive Keynotes and some light Pixelmator work. I'm using the M1 MBA as an interim machine and while it's nice, I really miss the 15" screen of my 2013 MBP.
Positive for me is that 16 is gonna feel enormous when I get it later this year!
As it stands now, I'll just have to pay an arm and a leg for a 16" even though I don't need all that sustained power. I just want the real estate with something powerful enough to smoothly edit graphic intensive Keynotes and some light Pixelmator work. I'm using the M1 MBA as an interim machine and while it's nice, I really miss the 15" screen of my 2013 MBP.
Positive for me is that 16 is gonna feel enormous when I get it later this year!
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I know that many people want an M1 version of the tiny Retina-MacBook, but what I want is a 16" MBA which feels like my 13" Air.
Or....
MacBook Air (current)
MacBook Air Mini (thinner/lighter)
MacBook Air Max (15")
MacBook Pro (14")
MacBook Pro Mini (13")
MacBook Pro Max (16")
Heck while we're at it how about a MacBook Air Pro (with Mini/Max variants)
By the way I'm not being serious... but note on these smaller, lighter but powerful models do note the Dell XPS series has been received quite well (and IMO represent the "best" of the PC world) and Apple doesn't really have an answer at the moment... can't wait!
Ah, I hear you. I want a larger laptop than the standard 13”, but I don’t need the Pro horsepower. A 15” Air would be awesome, plus the added battery life from the larger form factor.
But it sounds like Apple wants more money if one wants larger screen (12.9 iPad Pro, iPhone Pro Max, all larger ones are Pro lineup....)
What if this “Premium Air” is meant to pioneer something at the high end (OLED, retina 3x resolutions, touchscreen, etc. and yes 5G and FaceID, read Gurman’s wording carefully, it’s not coming soon but it may be coming in H1 2022 when this ProAir is released) instead of just being a lighter Air?