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Nice! It looks so sleek and slippery. Definitely looks well modernized. Enjoy your MBA. Unleash the M2 Chip!!!
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Midnight MacBook Air M2 is here! First impressions and photos thread
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of course..still the top bezels is kind of thick for their crapy 720p at 30 fps HD RGB camera, dual-array microphonesYou are comparing an old Dell to a new 2022 MBA. The new 2022 Dells are lighter and have slim bezels with no notchs.
the Mba feels more premium, more sturdy, dell is keeping 720p and the so called "touchbar" while Apple is moving away
I have the 12th Core™ i5-1240P with 13.4", 3.5K 3456x2160, 60Hz, OLED
The display feel better, its in between the mini-led from the pro models and the m2 Mba, but this dell gets hot pretty easy...and i chose the base cpu...but still. If you are stuck/need windows is an good if not the top tier ultrabook windows laptop...but if you dont need windows...the M2 Mba is the better device (minus the display), colder, 3x battery life (maybe because the display), faster, premium, even the keyboard is better because of the space between the keys, trackpad still better on the mac but Dell came along,better sound on the Mba (on dell is like keeping a pillow on the speakers..
Apple is going with headphone jack and even further with advanced support for high-impedance headphones while dell is getting rid of for no reason
When i will have the time and both laptops near me i will take some shots to feel the vertical display difference between the two, if you dont have them side by side you cant tell
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The finger prints are real lol, mainly top and bottom, just touching with clean fingers leaves a print. Trackpad and either sides are ok.
How are the speakers and the display? There’s been surprisingly few reviewers who’ve made good comparisons.
Midnight is not the colour to get the fingerprints is horrible, I know people like a new colour so do I but wow this thing is going straight back to apple, what a mess
The bezels are a lot thicker than the 14 and 16 MacBook Pro’s I don’t get why there’s a notch when the camera could fit in then bezels
I want to see a review comparing the 14 inch pro screen to the air
How is the keyboard different compared to the M1 MBA; is the travel different?
Everything about it is so nice, but that notch is hideous. Hope they get rid of it soon.
I would die of alcohol poisoning. Same with all the snobbery toward people who are fine with the base 8/256 model. or the notch. and on and on and on.
You don’t even notice it in use
I love the look of the Midnight colour, but the fingerprints would push me to Starlight or silver. I had a couple of Razer Blades which had similar fingerprint issues and although I eventually gave up and just accepted it, it definitely made me wary of dark metallic laptops.
I agree with some comments that the design is looking a bit basic. Absent the interesting colour, notch and Apple logo it's a pretty plain jane machine. Hardly a deal breaker (and the Air wedge had over the years also becoming a bit generic - my work HP X360 is awfully similar to the old Air design), but I can see why the keyboard deck was coloured black in the Pro models to add distinctiveness and why Apple juiced the Air's colour options.
I agree with some comments that the design is looking a bit basic. Absent the interesting colour, notch and Apple logo it's a pretty plain jane machine. Hardly a deal breaker (and the Air wedge had over the years also becoming a bit generic - my work HP X360 is awfully similar to the old Air design), but I can see why the keyboard deck was coloured black in the Pro models to add distinctiveness and why Apple juiced the Air's colour options.
Looks great and think midnight would be my choice too 🤩 (I already have the Apple polishing cloth). I have no need for a MacBook but looking at this it won’t take much to convince myself otherwise… here we go again 🤑🤣
Fingerprint situation is overblown IMO; quickie report in my own thread haha: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/them-fingerprints-tho-o_o.2351053/post-31258561
