Why not just go for a couple more keystrokes and say, "nearly-perfect" instead? I mean, I'm guessing the writer has some sort of education in English and journalism. So it makes no sense. Two key strokes? Takes less than a tenth of a second.
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M2 MacBook Air Reviews: 'Apple's Near-Perfect Mac'
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Youtube reviews are worthless 99% of them.
Better question is, why did Apple even release the 13” MBP? Early reviews (actual, independent reviews, not people chosen by Apple marketing) show that it doesn’t even maintain performance under load, and thermally throttles in spite of the fan.
Apple has a bad habit of releasing products that shouldn’t exist, will be discontinued very shortly, or are still being sold well past their lifetime. See 13” MBP, 2020 Intel MacBook Air (7 months before M1 version and in the same year), and of course Apple Watch 3.
Totally agree, which is why I started by saying that I suspect the reason most people on here don’t like her videos is because of her over the top style and the content rather than her gender.
That GPU benchmark is genuinely impressive if if's even remotely representative of real-world performance; 50% year-over-year improvement is stratospheric.
I should add that I do expect it to be representative of real world performance; I had a top-of-line MBP M1 Max and top-of-line Dell mobile workstation in my hands a few months ago, and in non-synthetic graphics benchmarks the results were mostly in line with synthetic numbers.
It's like saying "This reviewer never says Stanley Kubrick movies are bad, therefore he's a Stanley Kubrick fanboy and his opinions are worthless." Not everybody likes them, but it's a fairly widespread belief that few if any Stanley Kubrick movies are bad, and nobody is going to disregard a film critic's opinions as worthless if they like all of them.
Apple isn't a universally-acclaimed auteur movie director, but they do have an earned reputation for producing reliably good products for a general consumer audience, and less often but still consistently for many types of professional as well.
I've been using and providing small-office support for both Windows and Apple machines since the 68k/x86 era, and I could probably count on one hand the number of Apple machines I would have given a negative review on. Which you could say makes me a shill, but I would argue is just because most of them, particularly recently, are good machines.
I should add that I do expect it to be representative of real world performance; I had a top-of-line MBP M1 Max and top-of-line Dell mobile workstation in my hands a few months ago, and in non-synthetic graphics benchmarks the results were mostly in line with synthetic numbers.
I literally don't know who this person is, and it's entirely possible she's a shill and/or so enthusiastic about everything she reviews that her opinions are worthless. But "never dislikes a product from the company" does not necessarily equate to "is a shill for the company" unless that includes some specific product that is more-or-less objectively bad.
It's like saying "This reviewer never says Stanley Kubrick movies are bad, therefore he's a Stanley Kubrick fanboy and his opinions are worthless." Not everybody likes them, but it's a fairly widespread belief that few if any Stanley Kubrick movies are bad, and nobody is going to disregard a film critic's opinions as worthless if they like all of them.
Apple isn't a universally-acclaimed auteur movie director, but they do have an earned reputation for producing reliably good products for a general consumer audience, and less often but still consistently for many types of professional as well.
I've been using and providing small-office support for both Windows and Apple machines since the 68k/x86 era, and I could probably count on one hand the number of Apple machines I would have given a negative review on. Which you could say makes me a shill, but I would argue is just because most of them, particularly recently, are good machines.
So you have no idea how good the product, or its reviews are. Got it. Just to make this clear for anyone reading.
I much prefer Touch ID on iPad and iPhone, and I love it on Mac.
Any by the way, those "facial recognition" devices you mentioned don't use the LIDAR tech Apple uses for Face ID: they just rely on a webcam, which can — although it takes some work — be fooled. So no thanks.
I especially love it on my iPhone because one of my favorite things to do is browse Reddit (with Reddplanet of course because it's fantastic) in bed, under the covers, lights out, ready to sleep. With Face ID I can no longer do that without un-burying my head ad looking straight at the camera. I was hoping iOS 16's new landscape Face ID feature would fix that but nope.
Yeah, everything you said makes sense, but people will still spew that shill nonsense.
Ritchie takes Apple to task on the regular. So leave him outta your consipiracy theory
That's what the Pro is for. If they added all those lovely features you just mentioned into an Air, it would no longer be the least expensive entry level Mac. And then you would complain it was too expensive.
Apple just can't win with some people — even when they nail it — and most of those people seem to have set up shop in MacRumors' forums.
Just a heads-up, the MBA comes WITHOUT iJustine
Lots of belly aching by those still possibly awaiting an Apple product or just wanting to complain. If one does not like a poster, ignore their posts and not waste your and the other reader's time complaining.
Been an Apple user since 1990 with the Apple SE and IIsi as starters. Those boxes exceeded the $2,500 (in 1990 dollars). We were able to massage memory as hard drives were not yet available. I got one of the first Segate ST-506 drives and the 5MB drive cost $1,500 plus $1,500 for the controller. A full loaded IIFX was over $10,000 with the 68040 processor and a 80Mb 5.25" hard drive and two hard shell floppy drives. The optional color monitor (CRT) weighed forty pounds and needed a video card for another $3,000.
Since then several great Mac magazines have come and gone and their reviews were extensive. Not much chatter from the peanut gallery then as these computers were very expensive.
Folks wanting the most capable Apple product today will not find it at the $1,200 price point. That is a low ball device to serve as a hook to catch a new user and get them onto the upgrade chain.
Apple will sell their Top Tier software to anyone. But buying it for a MBAir would be like showing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a Peddle car on race day. The hobbiest has all day to wait on one or two photos while someone earning their living with their computer needs a quantum leap in performance which points them towards the top price tier products.
Lowering one's expectations to zero will allow the low price products to suffice. The old saying that one has to pay to play is true in the computer world. If you want Ferrari performance, get out the check book with lots of zeroes after the initial number.
And yet, Apple released the Mac Studio with more power than most versions of the Mac Pro for about 15% of the loaded Mac Pro price. That is progress. The MacOS was on two or three of the hard floppy drives in 1990. Now it is an over 12GB download. The 300 baud (30 CPS) modem was replaced with the T-1 that supported 48 56k modems. Now most folks have much faster connections at home than I had as an internet service provider in the 80s.
So is anyone really surprised that the 13" equipment gets over taxed with top tier software? To not burn up, the processor slows down so it will be able to work another day.
The 14" & 16" M1 series MBPros have tremendous capability and do not break a sweat with the Apple programs. The Mac Studio can handle and do the work that required a main frame of yesteryear.
Been an Apple user since 1990 with the Apple SE and IIsi as starters. Those boxes exceeded the $2,500 (in 1990 dollars). We were able to massage memory as hard drives were not yet available. I got one of the first Segate ST-506 drives and the 5MB drive cost $1,500 plus $1,500 for the controller. A full loaded IIFX was over $10,000 with the 68040 processor and a 80Mb 5.25" hard drive and two hard shell floppy drives. The optional color monitor (CRT) weighed forty pounds and needed a video card for another $3,000.
Since then several great Mac magazines have come and gone and their reviews were extensive. Not much chatter from the peanut gallery then as these computers were very expensive.
Folks wanting the most capable Apple product today will not find it at the $1,200 price point. That is a low ball device to serve as a hook to catch a new user and get them onto the upgrade chain.
Apple will sell their Top Tier software to anyone. But buying it for a MBAir would be like showing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a Peddle car on race day. The hobbiest has all day to wait on one or two photos while someone earning their living with their computer needs a quantum leap in performance which points them towards the top price tier products.
Lowering one's expectations to zero will allow the low price products to suffice. The old saying that one has to pay to play is true in the computer world. If you want Ferrari performance, get out the check book with lots of zeroes after the initial number.
And yet, Apple released the Mac Studio with more power than most versions of the Mac Pro for about 15% of the loaded Mac Pro price. That is progress. The MacOS was on two or three of the hard floppy drives in 1990. Now it is an over 12GB download. The 300 baud (30 CPS) modem was replaced with the T-1 that supported 48 56k modems. Now most folks have much faster connections at home than I had as an internet service provider in the 80s.
So is anyone really surprised that the 13" equipment gets over taxed with top tier software? To not burn up, the processor slows down so it will be able to work another day.
The 14" & 16" M1 series MBPros have tremendous capability and do not break a sweat with the Apple programs. The Mac Studio can handle and do the work that required a main frame of yesteryear.
By your definition she's an everything shill not an Apple shill, because she's equally happy about a lot of other computer brands.
I'm just here for the, "just stick with previous gen" comments.
I bought the M1 Air shortly after the M2 was announced. I would still recommend it to a lot of people, even over the M2, simply because of the lower price.
That's no criticism of the M2 Air, rather just shows how incredibly these machines are for most people.
yeah it's near perfect, just don't get the base storage else you lose half the speed, and by the time you upgrade the ram and storage, you're closer to the 14inch in price.
Watch out everyone, reviewers whose videos you don't watch are happy with the MacBook Air.
All this would be true if Macbook Air M1 never existed! Apple spoiled a huge population of people with MBA M1 in base form. It truly redefined the compute and needs for many and allowed many semi-pro people to avoid spending double $, by getting even the basic MBA M1 for the workflows.
With M2 MBA, Apple seems to be backpedaling and retracting that benefit introduced in the previous generation. Not only did the base price go up, but multitasking performance for many modest use cases went down!
You can get that information yourself. Weight & Height are the biggest differentiators.
M2 Air
MacBook Air 13- and 15-inch with M4 Chip - Tech Specs
See all technical specifications for the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M4 chip.
www.apple.com
- Height: 0.44 inch (1.13 cm)
- Width: 11.97 inches (30.41 cm)
- Depth: 8.46 inches (21.5 cm)
- Weight: 2.7 pounds (1.24 kg)4
14” MBP
MacBook Pro - Tech Specs
See all the technical specifications for the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips.
www.apple.com
- Height0.61 inch (1.55 cm)
- Width: 12.31 inches (31.26 cm)
- Depth: 8.71 inches (22.12 cm)
- Weight: 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg)5
I wasn't talking about the product itself but you knew that and decided to throw out irrelevancy anyway.
********. When has he EVER done anything but praise blindly Apple?
It hasn’t been on the M1 Air so why would it be a problem now?
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