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Kuo: 15-Inch MacBook Air to Offer Two M2 Chip Options, No M2 Pro Configuration
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Personally I wish they'd adopt the PPC / iPad naming convention rather than just adding digits after M to differentiate how new it is. It's one of the reasons Macs held their resale value and justified the high initial price tag.
M1 + <insert model, cool nickname/year> = Reasonable price/spec.
M2 + <insert model, cool nickname/year> = I need a Beast.
iPad <insert year> = Do some damn research fool.
It’s the iPhone 14 Plus in laptop form.
If you want a better product, go with the previous year’s Pro model.
Don’t buy the 14 Plus, buy the 13 Pro Max
Don’t buy this laptop, buy the MacBook Pro M1 Pro/Max models.
If you want a better product, go with the previous year’s Pro model.
Don’t buy the 14 Plus, buy the 13 Pro Max
Don’t buy this laptop, buy the MacBook Pro M1 Pro/Max models.
Not quite. M2 is faster than M1 in single-core.
14 Plus and 13 Pro Max have the same chip.
It’s 20-30% faster, but does that matter when we know they’ll slap 256 GB SSD/8 GB RAM on the base model?
The cheapest way is to use a DisplayLink adapter and extend the displays to 2 or more screens through software. The OWC adapter works great - https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/CADPDL2HDMI/.
I don't think Apple will change this unfortunate restriction anytime, as it allows them higher profit margins.
This why I wouldn't even mine a 15M1. but I'm sure they won't do that.
There's a year of runway, and the result is the same thing stretched out?
This doesn't sound like "pushing the boundaries of what's possible" or "wanting to go bigger and better"
This doesn't sound like "pushing the boundaries of what's possible" or "wanting to go bigger and better"
Issue is that there is no stock option of MBA with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD, you rarely see discount on BTO Macs. That’s why 14MBP will be much more value.
How about giving us the option of 60 Hz or 120 Hz displays? I want promotion but don’t need the pro model price.
I think this is a reasonable guess. However, this would make a 15" Air with 16 / 512 GB roughly $1899 which is just $100 less than a base 14" MacBook Pro that has the same RAM and HD. Screen sizes will be the same. Not a very good deal, IMO. In this instance $100 would buy you better display and more ports. Apple's ridiculous RAM and HDD upgrade prices are what drive this nonsense.
How about a third option. Maybe 3nm technology has far better applications than to push sales of Apple's cheapest fanless consumer notebook? Maybe the M3 is meant to debut in the Mac Pro or iMac Pro? Maybe a battery-powered iPhone Pro will benefit the most from increased energy efficiency? Your assumptions are wild for how little we know about an unreleased processor.
When Apple released MacBook Air it was expensive than 13” pro. Later it became a baseline for MacBooks. If Apple sells it rest of the world for same price like in US, they gonna sell twice or thrice as much as they do now.
It’s not nonsense. It’s good business-sense. It’s the same thing with them selling only 64GB and 256GB iPad Air.
For a forum that loves to reminisce about Steve Jobs’ four-device chart (desktop/portable main/pro), we’re not doing a very good job of applying that lesson here. The 15” MBA is the iPhone Plus, not the Pro Max. It was always going to launch with its size as the selling point, not try to be the fastest MacBook yet.
The Mac mini has an M2 Pro and is fanless.
15" MBA's are going to have to be considerably inexpensive to compete with the 16" MBP's. Approaching similar weight, footprint and display size so who would buy one? I would pick one up if base model MBA was $1000 cheaper than base model MBP. It would have to be that much cheaper for me to warrant giving up the M2 Pro chip and 64GB. I couldn't care less about the MBP display because I'm not a graphic designer and I actually prefer LCD because there's no PWM/ProMotion bs murdering your eyes.
WIth how most office workers use their Pro laptops, their MxPro and MxMaxes are fanless 99% of the time.
So only a few months later the M3 releases with what could be a much bigger jump than it was from M1 to M2 and they’re not holding off? Makes no sense, just push back the launch a few months.