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Gurman: MacBook Air Not Expected to Come in a Range of iMac-Like Colors
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FWIW I’ve found that as long as I’m not completely pegging the CPU for long periods I’ve found that my 16” M1P runs perfectly fine and charges, albiet slowly, using the several 65 watt Anker GaN chargers I have lying around, and even if I put it under heavy load for hours it typically doesnt discharge plugged into those chargers, it just doesnt charge.
I’m starting to wonder if both rumors are true: that either the current M1 Air sticks around at a lower price point, as they did with the 13” MBP, or that the new air comes configurable with multiple CPU options, like the M1P/M1M options on the 14”/16” MBP, with the M1 as the cheap base
Kuo said mass production begins in late Q2 or Q3. That means it won’t launch in early June. iPhone begins MP in August and it isn’t launched until September.
Agreed. Makes as little sense as it did 10 or 20 years ago.
I could never get the devices to reconned reliably from a few minutes of standby. Always had to reconnect manually.
Also, not every iPhone price plan may include as much as data or include tethering.
I'm not just wondering about this - I fully expect this.
Redesigned new models usually come with a higher price - and they almost always kept the old base model around as a low-cost option for a generation or two. Especially on their lower-end lines.
I expect the same on a new MacBook (Air).
Did Apple keep the old MacBook Air when they launched the $1,199 retina model in 2018?
You can see from actual web snapshots Apple did not.
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The 2017 Air was sold until mid 2019.You can see from actual web snapshots Apple did not.
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Even in the iMac line, there is a silver option. They aren’t all from the Skittle palette.
"In addition to the new $1,199 MacBook Air, the old version sticks around, beginning at $999."
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/apple-new-macbook-air/
"Alongside today's update and price drop, Apple has also discontinued the 2017 MacBook Air, which it had continued to sell for $999 following the introduction of the revamped MacBook Air last October."
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/09/macbook-air-updated-true-tone-lower-1099-price/
EDIT: Falhófnir beat me to it. The old model wasn't much advertised on apple.com, but they did sent out new shipments for the previous model, even after the new Retina model had begun to ship.
And Apple has to massproduce a lot, and I do mean a lot, more iPhones than MacBooks.
Apple sells somewhere between 200 and 230 million iPhones every year, but only somewhere around 20 million Macs.
I really love the original iBook G3; i will buy the new MBA for nostalgic reasons.
Even if it does have colours, it is never going to have the personality of the original iBooks or iMacs. Those times are behind us, and everything is very utilitarian. But at least colours would add something to the see of greys I see in student spaces!
Never.
I personally prefer the white bezels. I’m definitely in a segment of people keeping your request from happening.
issue ISNT the bezels, the notch is the issue. white notch on a dark mode display will look horrific, black notches makes sense as the dark gui will make the notch look invisible. To add insult as apple is too cheap to put face id(entire point of the notch in the first place was for the face id sensors plus facetime) on the laptops so you potentially will have a ugly white notch which only contains a tiny webcam..
Nah.
The notch doesn’t bother me either. I’m totally fine with white bezels and the notch. To each their own.
I didn't realize that the chip shortage affected anodizing.
Apple released colorful iMacs at the height of the supply chain issues.
The Face ID array components themselves, never mind glass on one side and metal on the other, are double the thickness of the MacBook Pro's entire lid so no, the point of the notch was not FaceID. I like white bezels and have zero problems with the notch on my MBP, but I do agree that a white notch is going to be much harder to ignore than a black one.
For reference, MacBook Pro 14/16, Kuo predicted it would enter mass production in Q3’21. Digitimes said MP began in August. Apple launched it in October.
There's a contingent of their market that is basically scared of any other colors.
Super frustrating to me
It's been great to see some of the colors on the phones.
The blue on both the 12 and 13 mini's are gorgeous!
I'm absolutely worn out on "silver, gray, black, kind of gold, sort of silver, shades of gray" and all the micro variations around those
The problem I see with colors, is that many people (me included) may get tired of watching the same color again and again… forever. At least, for all the years you’re going to use your MacBook, which in my case, they are more than 5, and probably more than 6 or 7. For the people who sells their computer after 2 or 3 years and changes, it could be “fun” to have different colors to choose, and change them regularly.
With more “serious” or neutral colors, like Space Grey, Black, Silver, even Starlight or Midnight, you kinda get less tired of them after many years. I don’t know how to explain it, but it is like colorful devices are more stimulating on the short term, but you get tired of watching them more easily thatn with less stimulating, more subtle colors.
I am a big fan of silver, although I could consider starlight as a color (I’d have to watch it personally). Silver is a classic, and never gets old. I have it on my Magic Keyboard/Trackpad, I have a silver iPad Pro, a silver Mac mini (there was no choice there lol), and I would have loved to have the chance of getting a silver iPhone 13, which they replaced with starlight. All my MacBooks have been silver and, to be honest, I think I’ll never change. It is the only color that shows the true nature of aluminum, even when scratched or damaged (less noticeable than other colors).
With more “serious” or neutral colors, like Space Grey, Black, Silver, even Starlight or Midnight, you kinda get less tired of them after many years. I don’t know how to explain it, but it is like colorful devices are more stimulating on the short term, but you get tired of watching them more easily thatn with less stimulating, more subtle colors.
I am a big fan of silver, although I could consider starlight as a color (I’d have to watch it personally). Silver is a classic, and never gets old. I have it on my Magic Keyboard/Trackpad, I have a silver iPad Pro, a silver Mac mini (there was no choice there lol), and I would have loved to have the chance of getting a silver iPhone 13, which they replaced with starlight. All my MacBooks have been silver and, to be honest, I think I’ll never change. It is the only color that shows the true nature of aluminum, even when scratched or damaged (less noticeable than other colors).
as much as i don't like off white bezels, it's gonna sale, especially if it got mag safe.
The problem i have with a potential white bezel and white notch is not my reaction to it but having to wade through all of the complaint posts from people about how the white bezel blinds them and stunts their children’s growth. that will be much harder to ignore. 😉