My M1 is going strong and I guess I will keep it for another 5 to 7 years. Very happy.
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MacBook Air With M1 Chip is Just $599 at Walmart
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Back in 2020, we received a batch of 70 in-box/sealed 13.3" MBA (early 2015 model). Half of them wouldn't hold a charge and required 'battery service'.
In the meantime, I have the following. All of them can hold battery power for 3+ hours of operation:
• 2001 PBG4 titanium
• 2004 PBG4 17"
• 2006 PBG4 12.1"
Oh no, I much prefer the tapered design too. I also prefer the previous MacBook Pro design to the current one.
YEAH. People do like everyone be video editor....
I must laugh everytime reading comments like that working on my 2012 MBP with Sequioa. Kudos to OCLP team!!! Jay! 😁
I think the A18 would provide a few more years of support. Compared to the M1 it has ray tracing, a faster CPU core, and better efficiency. It also is made on the same 3nm process as the M4 vs. the 5nm process of the M1.
I have this Mac base config 8GB as my main. I do Xcode, visual studio, run all sorts of apps at once, it has yet to slowdown.
The jump from Intel to M1 is insane, after that there hasn’t been any special improvements. Apple kind of shot themselves in the foot by releasing M1, you can’t really keep getting better after that jump.
The jump from Intel to M1 is insane, after that there hasn’t been any special improvements. Apple kind of shot themselves in the foot by releasing M1, you can’t really keep getting better after that jump.
I bought this 3 years after it released in January 2024 for $750, and it's still an amazing laptop to this day.
M4 was for sale for $750. So $600 for an M1 with 8GB seems overpriced.
True - but don't forget there are those for whom that extra $150 is a big deal and, ostensibly, there is nothing that a 16GB M4 Air can do that an 8GB M1 Air cannot (at least for the sorts of things that they might want to do with their laptop). We geeks can tell the difference, but 'normal' people often don't notice.
One word, warranty.
At $150 per year if it's 4 years a perfect machine for many who could care less about the latest and greatest. Painful I know but that's the vast majority of buyers outside this enthusiast bubble.. Build quality and support of most everything in that price point isn't even close.
I think an M4 or an M5 could get at least two years longer support from Apple than an M1.
You might be right. And the M1 have no notch!
my 2012 MBPr 16/gb768gb still running well ... emails, web browsing, word processing ... anything not heavy IO, CPU or GPU intensive, still works
Do you get the 2% when you buy gift cards, normally? If so, I bet they have Walmart gift cards elsewhere that you could buy beforehand. Bonus fun if you can manage to stack gas points at a grocery store at the same time.
Thank you for not posting the unboxing video.Brand new stock. Here's a pic
Here's one being unboxed, already pre-installed with the latest macOS.
Just because Apple stops selling it in the Apple Store doesn't mean Apple stops making them.
My wife and daughter each have a MBA M1, basic configuration of 8/256, both use them daily and for several hours at a time and both are still humming right along after nearly 5 years (uh, the M1s, not my wife and daughter). I think there’s too much emphasis on this forum on “power users” and “more RAM!” and other what I consider to be useless insights. Most, if not 95% or more of users don’t edit videos, mess with LLMs or edit photographs commercially. Most of us get along just fine with 8/256.
Apple knows that, as does Walmart.
Apple knows that, as does Walmart.
What's really impressive to me on my 2015 15" MBP is that the whole "fans spinning up" thing went away at some point. Not sure if that happened on Sequoia or before, but it's cool, quiet and silent basically always. I love it!
I'm still very partial to that generation and the keyboard and just all of it.
Exactly. Read the reviews on Walmart's website. The $599 M1 MacBook has a rating of 4.7 stars out of 5. It's popular. The people buying it aren't power users. They see an opportunity to own a Mac for $600 with a full warranty and support from Apple. They are comparing this to $400 Chromebooks and similarly priced Windows PCs. The screen is amazing for that price and the included software is all they need. And the build quality is far better than those cheap Chromebooks/Windows PCs.