I think I'd miss the XDR display (mini led) and Pro Motion though. Looks like the M2 has less GPU cores too
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Hands-On With the New 15-Inch MacBook Air
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What about if you put the 13" display setting to "More Space" though?
I thought I would miss the promotion too, but I’m fine without it. The M2 feels snappier and definitely opens programs faster. I wasn’t close to pushing the M1 GPU anyway.
The 15" is the perfect MacBook for me and the one I've been waiting for for years. I loved the old 15" MacBook Pro's and the midnight is not only a spectacular color but the size and weight is exactly what I've been wanting. Easily my favorite Apple laptop in years.
Yes then it renders properly - but it is significantly smaller. My eyes aren't what they used to be, so the more space setting doesn't really work for me.
I waited a loooong time for this laptop, but finally gave up and got the XPS 15 in my signature about 18 months ago. While I've done well with it, I'm still wishing I could justify getting the new Air. For those who have, enjoy it!
Not in a hurry to get a new laptop so I will wait for M3, but this seems like a great laptop for someone who needs one right now.
I guess Apple couldn’t shed a few ounces here and there to make it a bit lighter due to aluminum chassis. That’s the only disappointing part of this. Hopefully the next iteration will give us more base RAM than 8GB and start with 512GB.
I guess Apple couldn’t shed a few ounces here and there to make it a bit lighter due to aluminum chassis. That’s the only disappointing part of this. Hopefully the next iteration will give us more base RAM than 8GB and start with 512GB.
Agreed! Why can we not just have MacBook and MacBook Pro? And I don't care what they say about the volume of the M2 Air compared with the M1 Air Wedge design. The M2 looks thicker, and it feels thicker.
🤔...it's marketing/branding. people read "air" and think....🤔....
Yes. We know. This is on purpose to get you to move to a pro machine. Y'all need to get over the "it can't run 2 displays" nonsense.
There is also the Displaylink dock workaround as well. So, it isn't impossible to run 2 displays; you just can't use 2 displays natively on this platform.
ohhhh.. I think I may have stumbled on this.. I have a DislplayLink dock for my Lenovo and I am able to run two screens. One is a mirror of the laptop screen, the other is an extended screen..
I have been using either Macbook Pro or Macbook Air in the 13 inch size for over six years. However, I find my eyes straining on the 13 inch Macbook Air now. For various reasons, I wanted to run Windows natively so I also have a 14 inch Lenovo Yoga 7 which is much more comfortable for my eyes. Its going to be intesting when it comes time to upgrade...
The wedge is a lie! 😊
That wedge shape fools your eyes into thinking the device is thinner when it’s really thicker through most of the case. The new designs are more honest in that regard.
For better or worse, Apple seems to have decided that their consumer line will be called Air. Part of that is the historical strength of customers willingness to buy the Air even when there was a “MacBook”.
Another reason is to differentiate the consumer line from the Pro line. They are all MacBooks. If you didn’t have the Air suffix, referring to it would be clumsy. Just calling it MacBook would not always be enough. You would find yourself referring to it as the ”Non-Pro MacBook” which is an inelegant phrase. We see that problem with the low end model iPad. What do we call that? The “cheap iPad”? I guess, but it would be easier with a suffix. Same with the best selling MacBooks who deserve to have their own name “Air”.
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I have a sense that the 15" MBA will sell like crazy.
Thanks for the unboxing! I got mine this afternoon and unboxed it these evenin. I agree on the weight, it’s weird feeling. The sound system is amazing! I played a track from Star Trek Picard and it sounded so awesome! it took a little more than 2hrs to migrate my old MacBook Pro retina (late 2013) but once I got it up and running, I noticed the speed of running things, so much faster and sharper. The battery seams so much better, I know that on my 15in pro safari and music running together always drained it pretty fast, on it for about an hour and it dropped 1%
This laptop feels like a perfect direct replacement for my 2.8 i7 early 2013 (10,1) 16/512 15 inch.
Screen size and PPI is almost exactly the same.
Running Ventura isn't an issue, as everything seems to work fine, but I do see beachballs often when working on my Photos library of 300GB (60,000 photos, 2000 videos). It never swaps in virtual memory, so I am hesitant to get the base 8GB. I wonder though if it beachballs because my usb 3.0 is the bottleneck?
but I'd really like a m2 pro Mac mini 16/512, but my budget says base model 8/256 😂😅
The longer my laptops lives, the closer to m3 I can get, I'll be curious to read all your reviews going forward.
Screen size and PPI is almost exactly the same.
Running Ventura isn't an issue, as everything seems to work fine, but I do see beachballs often when working on my Photos library of 300GB (60,000 photos, 2000 videos). It never swaps in virtual memory, so I am hesitant to get the base 8GB. I wonder though if it beachballs because my usb 3.0 is the bottleneck?
but I'd really like a m2 pro Mac mini 16/512, but my budget says base model 8/256 😂😅
The longer my laptops lives, the closer to m3 I can get, I'll be curious to read all your reviews going forward.
We have almost the same laptop, please if you get a chance post up your review/usage and tag me pls. 👍👍
So he can save $1/unit. Do you know how much a vacation home in Aspen costs nowadays?