I cannot help seeing Tim Cook when I see the thumbnail here of iJustine. Anyone else?
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M2 MacBook Air Reviews: 'Apple's Near-Perfect Mac'
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Ijustin did a great review. the Verge is just in a negative all the time.
waiting on MKHD review now.
When watching reviews just noticed the ratio of product showing on screen vs someone just sitting and talking.
waiting on MKHD review now.
When watching reviews just noticed the ratio of product showing on screen vs someone just sitting and talking.
Sounds like a very solid device.
non-binary sexism.
Agreed most of those aren't so much reviews as unboxing videos. Real reviews will be coming later. MBKHD and similar will have all their detailed reviews forthcoming. Look forward to seeing those.
Agreed most of those aren't so much reviews as unboxing videos. Real reviews will be coming later. MBKHD and similar will have all their detailed reviews forthcoming. Look forward to seeing those.
Absurd price: the 2018 MacBook Air redesign, the one that every negative person in these comments says is worth the money instead, also started at $1199.
It wasn’t until a year later that it got back down to that $999 price point, which I expect to happen here as well.
Face ID: without any button press confirmation like there is on the iPhone and iPad, Face ID on the Mac would be a disaster. And if I’m already having to press a button to confirm a purchase or whatever, why not just scan my finger while it’s there?
All of your other complaints are complete personal preference, so I don’t agree or disagree. The slower SSD thing is meh, but anyone who really cares clearly wasn’t gonna live off of 256 GB of storage anyway.
I don't even need to watch the reviews or look at the benchmarks. Gimped hardware for the sake of saving pennies and pushing customers to more expensive models.
-No multi-monitor support (something a bargain bin chromebook can do)
-Gimped Storage at a higher price (storage is always a bottleneck so who cares about the rest)
I could maybe argue the gimped storage if it was a huge cost difference but lets be serious at scale it was a rounding error on the books. Multi monitor is just a sales tactic zero technical reason to gimp it. If it can drive a 6k montior it can drive a couple 2K monitors. But they want either the monitor sale or the upgrade in their pockets.
-No multi-monitor support (something a bargain bin chromebook can do)
-Gimped Storage at a higher price (storage is always a bottleneck so who cares about the rest)
I could maybe argue the gimped storage if it was a huge cost difference but lets be serious at scale it was a rounding error on the books. Multi monitor is just a sales tactic zero technical reason to gimp it. If it can drive a 6k montior it can drive a couple 2K monitors. But they want either the monitor sale or the upgrade in their pockets.
Entertaining reviews I'm sure, but I'll wait for people who purchased the computer to give real world feedback.
And you can cook a meal at home for 10% of what it would cost in a restaurant. Not exactly a new concept.
It’s funny cause it’s true
The Verge and CNET were enough for me. Just waiting on Zollotech for his review.
Which… he didn’t really state.
Is “it’s just like a pro camera” an exaggeration? Maybe. Maybe not. Plenty of pros use one these days.
Nobody at Apple is pretending that iPhone cameras have similar optics as high-end cameras.
Yeah, just like everyone was cheering for the MacBook Pro M2 saying it was perfect too! No wait…
Funny how some people here have gold fish memory. Or selective memory. Or just trolling…
The M2 MBP you're replying about has exatly the same constraints, you need to go to the M1P/M1X 14"/16" to get more native monitor support.
I guess I may be standing alone in left field without a glove, but man am I looking forward to getting one of these. It ticks all the boxes for my usages and expectations! Love the midnight.
iJustine review sold me! MBA, here I come!
For Apple, profit is king over market share. If they cared about market share, they'd lower prices to compete. They don't.
You're factually wrong. He did state they're equivalent. There's no word "almost" in his statement or anything that would convey the meaning 'it's ALMOST like a pro camera'. Tim Cook stated in his iJustine "interview" (
And no, I didn't misinterpret this statement as even MacRumors interpreted ( https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/15/tim-cook-apple-event-interview/ ) this statement as "In the nearly 15 minutes' long interview, Cook describes the new camera features of the iPhone 13, specifically Cinematic Mode, as a "mindblowing" addition to the iPhone that places it on par with professional high-end video equipment."
Again, no "almost" in the MacRumors interpretation either. They did interpret Cook's words as above: iPhone 13 Pros ' Cinematic Mode is the same, shallow DoF quality-wise, than high-end cameras.
You can see the smudges in this one real well I think. I think I'm leaning over to getting the space grey one.
The second I see anything reviewed by so called "tech expert" iJustine I switch off, I mean where was she when Apple first started gathering momentum in the iMac G3 days?
To echo my previous thoughts the real long standing Apple users should get these review units, we pay enough to buy them and care about using them, plus it'd be real world case studies not one of the "tech experts for hire"
To echo my previous thoughts the real long standing Apple users should get these review units, we pay enough to buy them and care about using them, plus it'd be real world case studies not one of the "tech experts for hire"
Yeah, right. With 91% market share, they're "toast". Pinch yourself, I think you're dreaming.
What a nice sleek laptop. What a shame to bulkify it when you need to attach anything that isn't USB-C.
I like the MBA-M2 and can see how it fills the needs of a majority of consumers so I expect it to sell very well.
I needed a new portable computer so I considered the MBA2 but decided for as often as I need to take a laptop somewhere I'll go with a MBPro.
I needed a new portable computer so I considered the MBA2 but decided for as often as I need to take a laptop somewhere I'll go with a MBPro.
