I agree.
Microsoft sells a version of Office Mac that doesn't require a subscription. Every now & then it goes on sale. I bought my copy of Office 2021 for $29 or $39. Would love to use iWorks apps, butExcel is just so much more feature rich (for my needs). But I also don't want to pay a monthly fee to use software.perhaps you and your use case arent the target market for this device then.
i have 10 year old Macbook Airs that have that spec and work well.
The person I gave one to just does simple writing tasks.
He loves it.
I even set his Word documents to open in Pages and he adapted really quickly to it.
And no subscription fees each year.
The way he adapted so readily as a non-tech user made me rethink my Office 365 subscription.
I'm letting it lapse this year and see how I go with Apple apps to open anything people send me.
Or use OpenOffice as a fallback.
I had a year in a recent job using corporate calendar and newsletter DOC templates.
Even with the same installed fonts on Mac and PC the file opened and formatted differently enough to be painful.
Most of us never needed anything more than what Office 97 did.
Throwing in CoPilot and upping my sub fee without asking was the final nail.
That certainly seems possible. At least for the users on this forum this won't work as we know to instead get a discounted M4 Air and call it a day for a good long while. In a couple years from now when you can't find M4 models on the shelves anymore we will of course all pay the higher prices eventually if Apple does end up raising them.
yeah i've seen those Office 2021 deals too.
it will be aimed at the group who want to save $100.
I'll take that bet.
The 12" MacBook was the first laptop with the butterfly keyboard. So in a 12" laptop it was great, but in a 13" laptop it was a disaster?
That "group" already has an abundant supply of new and refurbished M1 and M2 Macbooks and Macbook Air across multiple retailers not to mention used market. These are not even on sort of holiday / black Friday pricing and are still 449 - 500.
In the text that you quoted I specifically stated a 12" Macbook with Apple Silicon but without the serial defects would be great.
It makes perfect sense if you want to buy a new MacBook for basic browsing/email/writing/spreadsheets/media consumption.
If you're concerned with multicore benchmarks, this is not for you.
Looks like the "Unannounced rumoured product launch has been delayed" rumour has been delayed.
Nah, it was bad on the 12" MB, too, but it was a new product line so you could pop into a store, press a few keys, say "ugh!" and go buy an Air instead. The butterfly MBPs came when a bunch of people were desperate to upgrade their outdated MBPs.
Ah yes, that’s a point. However if it’s gonna be low cost, I don’t expect Apple would give us a super thin bezel.
Those are very different customers. $599 is the volume market with long tail income opportunities (some dollars of profit x 100s of apps x 100s of millions of users), while the 1k monitor stand is in the professional market where you just want things to surely work under extreme load, without hiccups, but 100x fewer customer are willing to buy.
