Bought a 15 inch today!!

[Juicy Box]

My wife still uses a 11" Mid 2012 MBA, and a few years back when she was using it for her business, I wanted to replace it with a new Mac laptop due to the age, but was hesitant due to the lack of MagSafe. MagSafe has saved my wife's MBA so many times, I didn't want to give it up.

The timing of the glorious return of MagSafe, and specifically, MagSafe on the MBA was just a little too late, as my wife left her private practice for the VA, and she no longer needing a personally own work laptop.

So, there was no longer sense of urgency to replace her aging MBA. She is still using it though, it will soon be 12 years old,

She has been complaining about her eyesight lately, and with the larger 15" MBA release, I came close to buying it for her, but at this point, I think I am going to hold out for the M3 15".

 

[ozziegn]

I traded my wife's mid 2019 intel MBA 8/256 today, for $400. It was a bit of a pain since the first store offered $0 (since they could not find it in their system, despite having the original box with BB stickers on it!) . I went home, found it in their system, and saved it to my account, and a BBstore 20 minutes away with competent personnel processed it quickly. We purchased her 8/512 M2 MBA earlier this month. it was $75 more of a trade value than Apple offered.

Unfortunately for my 8/512 M1 MBA there is no trade value listed at BB's US website for any MBA's for 2020 or 2021 (the Canadian site does have one, so clearly the US site is just out of sync. ) They do have 2020 and 2021 trade values for MBP's. just not the MBAs. I was looking to snag a 15 inch MBA 16/512 open box, but it seems as if I will end up with Apple's trade value if I want to go in that direction, perhaps a trade on a refurb. Very odd that BB doesn't have a trade in option for the M1 or M2 MBAs.

Something isn't right because I just ordered a 15" M2 MBA 8Gb/512GB from Best Buy's website with in-store pick up tomorrow. They are offering me $525 for my 2020 13" M1 MBA 8Gb/256GB laptop. Here's a screen shot of their $525 offer for my 13" M1 MBA.

 

[dizmonk]

Something isn't right because I just ordered a 15" M2 MBA 8Gb/512GB from Best Buy's website with in-store pick up tomorrow. They are offering me $525 for my 2020 13" M1 MBA 8Gb/256GB laptop. Here's a screen shot of their $525 offer for my 13" M1 MBA.View attachment 2328087

What's wrong? I don't get it.

 

[ozziegn]

What's wrong? I don't get it.

The person I quote said Best Buy doesn't have any trade-in value for 2020 M1 MacBook Air laptops which isn't true.

 

[jlc1978]

The title of your post got me thinking.
Why do Apple call their laptops 13", 15" and 16" ?
Now obviously its a reference to screen sizes but, here's the rub.
America is the only country in the world that relies on inches , the rest of us use the metric system, because its easier. Apple is an international company, it tries its best to sell in every country on the planet, so why does it reference a largely complicated and unhelpful system of measurements in its products?

It's a historical anomaly that dates back to the early days of TV, when tubes were round and measurement was the diameter of the tube. Since early TV development occurred in the US, the measurement system and format stuck as TVs (and by extension monitors) moved from being round. I'm guessing simply because people were used to it as a comparison, even if the reason for the diagonal was no longer valid.

 

[serpico007]

Got it. There's both a 13" 2020 AS MBP and a 13" 2020 Intel MBP, hence the confusion.

BB''s offical trade-in value for the 13" 2020 i5 MBP varies from $575 for 8 GB/256GB to $800 for 16GB/1TB so, depending on the config you actually had, $800 may or may not have been the correct price.

Cool, I picked one up this weekend. 15” is a nice size and I can’t believe how thin it is. I got the midnight blue color.

 

[helloapple1]

Cool, I picked one up this weekend. 15” is a nice size and I can’t believe how thin it is. I got the midnight blue color.

15" is an amazing size. A bit hard to get used to coming from a 13" M1 MBA haha. What do we do with all the extra screen space!!! 🤣

 

[serpico007]

15" is an amazing size. A bit hard to get used to coming from a 13" M1 MBA haha. What do we do with all the extra screen space!!! 🤣

This is such a nice comfortable size, I'm used to smaller laptops because of weight. But this 15" MBA is so light and thin, I'm so amazed. The high resolution is so much nicer than 1080p I've used for years.

 

[kp98077]

This is such a nice comfortable size, I'm used to smaller laptops because of weight. But this 15" MBA is so light and thin, I'm so amazed. The high resolution is so much nicer than 1080p I've used for years.

yes! Did you get the base?

 

[Isamilis]

I also very very much enjoy the larger screen. Makes watching movies so much much better!!!

Also the speaker. Sufficient bass, very good for study music.

 

[GCC]

Congrats! Its a really nice laptop and screen size, great speakers