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MacBook Air and 'MacBook' With M2 Chips Slated for Launch Later This Year
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Seriously hoping for a 13” MacBook and to see a transition of the MacBook Air to 12”.
I own three MacBook 12, and despite the abysmal speed difference with my Mac mini M1, I still use them on a daily basis.
I know it is super niche, but those who love the 12 have no alternative in the market currently, even from other manufacturers.
Please please apple give us a MacBook 12” M1!
I own three MacBook 12, and despite the abysmal speed difference with my Mac mini M1, I still use them on a daily basis.
I know it is super niche, but those who love the 12 have no alternative in the market currently, even from other manufacturers.
Please please apple give us a MacBook 12” M1!
Give me a purple Mac Book Air as thin as two iPads! In fact, make it two two screens! 
Similar-minded people make trips to take him food and water.
I have the same problem. My 2018 MacBook Pro is slowly falling apart (worn down keyboard, 75% battery health, slow compared to M1 models) and I would like to replace it. But it's saddening to know that the current "new" models are almost 2 years old, yet start at for me quite expensive $1400 where I live for the base model MacBook Air 512GB, 8GB RAM ($1650 for the MacBook Pro 512GB, 8GB RAM) and that new models might not show up until October or November. ?♂️
But this is Apple's approach to positioning the different tiers of Apple Silicon, i.e. M-<n>, M-<n> Pro, Max & Ultra.
Apple launched the M1 into relatively low-end machines while more powerful Intel models existed.
People understand that the M2 will be less powerful than current M1 Pro, Max, Ultra, so there is no "Osborne effect".
It took a year between M1 and M1 Pro/Max, so it is entirely logical that there will be an M2 in a new low end MacBook (be it "Air", "Pro" or just "MacBook") before we see an M2 Pro/Max/Ultra/Quadro in other Macs.
I can't tell you how long the gap between M2 and M2 Pro/Max etc. will be in this iteration, but I wouldn't expect to see an high-spec variant of the M2 until the end of the year, with the M2 released somewhat earlier (could be as early as WWDC, or as late as Sep/Oct).
Of course we only have only seen the first iteration of M1 - which may still have unreleased variants, so we can hardly confirm the release cadence based on releases so far, but we can make an educated guess.
People have done cinebench tests back to back and the difference is a few per cent. you will see a very small difference in renders but really not worth 300$.
so the mba would still be cheaper? if so no reason to take the new macbook. even if there are more ports; two thunderbolt is not practical but manageable. if they add magsafe on both it'll be even more so.
For real. The render shown accentuates the notch, dividing the screen into two equal parts. If they end up doing it like the newest iMacs without the notch entirely, then it doesn't look bad in white.
I just wonder why they can't just seem to unify the product lines all at once and provide the consumer line at a predictable, reasonable price point and the pro line at an elevated price point. I'm sure that the reason is economics though. They have to appeal to several different economies at once and seem to wish to present something fresh to each one. For the people who are used to seeing one Apple with every product being a refined statement in and of itself, it just never feels natural to see the product line so disjointed.
It's also like being in a warp zone seeing the "new" iPhone SE coming out for pre-order at a price point of $429 with a century-old form factor.
The latest Studio Display and Mac Studio feels like they're in the right direction, but now it's entered into an Air vs. Studio vs. Pro realm that they're still criss-crossing within. They just seem to have too much going on all at once. It's a little unfocused and haphazard seeming.
I hope this is what they do. I think they’d look better the closer they look to the iMacs.
Just like back in 2009-2015. Though to be honest, I never minded the white bezel on the white polycarbonate MacBooks, though I do admit the black bezel on my unibody MacBook Pro and my M1 MacBook Air does look really nice in comparison.
Putting the next generation chip into the Air and 13” before the high end machines is exactly what Apple did with the M1. I don’t see why they would not do the same for an M2.
I wish they would modify whatever part of the chip that handles the external displays. I have 3-1080p monitors. That can be handled by less bandwidth than 1 of their XDR external monitors, yet the M1 & M1 Pro will not support that setup because they either can't or won't sub-divide the capabilities of 1 XDR stream.
The older Intel chips even as far back as my Late-2013 MBP can do 3 monitors (2 via Mini DP & 1 via HDMI). Do they think that the M1 Max sales will be cannibalized by this feature or did they just think it's not worth designing for that use case?
I'm not asking the M1 to handle 3-6K XDR displays, but cmon, I shouldn't have to go with an M1 Max just to get 3-1080 displays to work when an almost 10-year-old MBP can do it.
The older Intel chips even as far back as my Late-2013 MBP can do 3 monitors (2 via Mini DP & 1 via HDMI). Do they think that the M1 Max sales will be cannibalized by this feature or did they just think it's not worth designing for that use case?
I'm not asking the M1 to handle 3-6K XDR displays, but cmon, I shouldn't have to go with an M1 Max just to get 3-1080 displays to work when an almost 10-year-old MBP can do it.
While the old MacBook Pros had decent multi-display support, the MacBook Airs and MacBooks did not, so this limitation is not new by any means. For example, our 2017 MacBook Air and our 2017 MacBook both support only one external display, but our 2015 MacBook Pro supports dual external displays, plus another over HDMI.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the MacBook Air re-released with notch and M1, thus with the same external display limitations. The question though is if M2 would have the same limitations. My guess it will too, because that addresses the vast majority of the MacBook Air market. The number of people targeting a MacBook Air and triple monitor support are exceedingly small.
I can see the MBAir to MBPro not supporting 3 external displays as valid reasoning, but also it was because the MBAir only had 1 port to connect an external monitor, it wasn't because of a CPU upgrade differentiation point.
If you read my post, I'm complaining about the MBPro's, not the MBAirs. However, the M1 MBAir does have 2 thunderbolt ports, so I would expect it should support 2 externals, the same cant be said of the Air models in your example. But even so, I'm not complaining about an M1 Air that supports 3 externals.
The overwhelming view about the M1 Max is you generally don't need that much power, and they're right, I don't. But I need 3 monitors so I have to pay for the Max anyways. That's the complaint. All of the M1 MBPro's have enough ports for 2 TB4 + 1 HDMI. They should be able to support them.