When ordering, I wasn't really concerned about the speed of the 256 drive. What came into play for me is that I am getting tired of having to constantly offload data from my current M1 MBA 8/256. Granted this wasn't the case when I bought the M1 but, over time, it has become a nuisance that I would rather avoid with a newer machine.
Haha. Good memory!!
Okay, maybe.
I think that is ncluding VAT - to be fair. US advertised MSRP is not what people pay.
I got the 8GB version 😂 but I only do office work, streaming, listening to music and casual photo editing. I guess I’ll be fine.
You have to remember in many countries outside the USA taxes are included in the price. In the USA you get that sticker shock when you go to check out and find out $100 or more was added to your total. That’s just sales tax which is only maybe 8%.
No one was “tricked”. That implies some intentional deceit and I’m not aware of any stores doing this. People watching YouTube videos or looking at posts here and taking whatever the person says as fact was their fault.
Or, Apple is getting its supply chain in order and is better able to match supply with demand. Apple doesn’t want shortages of any of its products, particularly its higher volume products. The MacBook Air is the best selling Mac. Lots of people buy this for students. They would lose a lot of sales if initial shipment dates slipped to late August or September too quickly, though they will also see a pop in demand in December.
Agree with this - if you need it for higher intensity tasks, wouldn't it be better to go the MBP instead?
I’ll agree that if you’re getting a laptop the best way to do it is buy enough storage to keep your files on the laptop. It might not always be connected to the Internet so having everything in iCloud under optimize storage would be bad. I might regret buying only 512 GB but we’ll see. It worked for my iMac but also I had optimize storage turned on. I might end up keeping that turned on for photos
Apple is only discounting refurbs by 10% now. You might do equally well with resellers such as B&H Photo or Adorama who offer promotions.
Apple offers two stock/non-BTO options. The Base 8/256 is fine even though really should be 8/512 now. The step up stock configuration should be 16/512 instead of 8/512 even if would have have been $1599 without the silly 2 gpu upgrade included. There are very few use cases where someone would benefit from 2 extra gpus vs 8GB of additional RAM.
Definitely. Although the M2 CPU is slightly faster the GPU is not going to compete with the Pro. Also there is no cooling fan so if you’re running tasks it take more than 10 minutes to process or so this is probably not the ideal laptop for you. Once you start specing out the Air it becomes almost the price of the Pro.
Yes, but this could be a second Mac for some users. For example, if your daily driver is a Mac Studio or 16” MacBook Pro, maybe this is a travel Mac but you want the extra RAM.
I agree they should’ve made that option with 16 GB of RAM instead of the GPU cores. That would’ve been beneficial to more people
This, totally agree. Two extra GPU cores mean nothing for this type of machine, 16 GB of RAM is far more useful.
