I have a Space Black MBP and love the color. I subsequently bought a Midnight MBA without having viewed the color in person, thinking it would be similar to Space Black. I hate Midnight. I’ll be trading it in for an M4 MBA—probably Silver unless there’s a compelling new color.
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It's so funny how varied peoples tastes are. My wife got a Midnight M3 MBA and absolutely loves the color. I myself would have went for Starlight, but hey...
Also earlier in the thread people commenting on the old wedge design vs. the current design. I don't really have any strong feelings one way or the other there, but I do think the wedge design served the MBA better when you could get it in 11". I had one of those and it felt extremely small. The 13" 2019 MBA we had, while still the wedge design, didn't feel as sleek to me.
No, and I rarely do use it. But even if I ignore it, it annoyingly takes up space on the MacBook, shifting the Thunderbolt ports into a less ideal position and offending my Jony Ive-esque sense of minimalism.
There was such widespread lamenting when they took away MagSafe. I prefer having it, personally, but Apple will never make everybody happy. The good news is that they make most people happy and they only complaints you generally hear are online.
I’m sure it has saved a many MacBook from being pulled off a table.
MagSafe lets you use another USB-C port. I'm not complaining.
Here's the thing: MagSafe was actually important the first time around, because battery life sucked back then. So we tended to use laptops plugged in, most of the time. Inevitably you'd have it plugged in with the cable left in a trip hazard position in some locations. In those bad old days, MagSafe definitely saved a few Macs/charging cables from trips.
But now days, modern Apple Silicon MacBooks have at least 10 hours or so battery life. All-day usage on battery for most people with room to spare. They rarely need to be plugged in and charged. So most people, when not at their regular desk (where there is no trip hazard), use their MacBooks on battery power most of the time.
Or, to put it another way: improvements in MacBook battery life have eliminated the use case for MagSafe.
But (in the MacBook Pro) they sacrificed one USB-C port to give us MagSafe! I'd much rather have the 4th Thunderbolt/USB-C port!
Ok so I would never need to plug 4 devices… get an adapter in this situation… I like MagSafe since if I step (or someone) on the cable… the Mac won’t be throw at floor… + more easy to plug when MagSafe !
The tapered/wedge shape of the MacBook Air is the iconic MacBook Air look. I picked the M2 model for the MagSafe, though. I'm never going back to no MagSafe.
I will buy it in 15” in any case. It’s going to be at least 4 times increase in speed. So it doesn’t matter what exactly the specs are, it will be powerful enough. Battery life will be twice as good or better. Screens are good enough these days anyway. The only things that they could improve is a third port on the other side and hopefully new color options. But even without these changes I’m gonna buy a 15”/1TB/24GB version. I hope it’s not more than $1899 and then I have to decide if I want to pay for apple care.
Should probably rephrase what you wrote, lol.
The reality is that enough people were unhappy with the Air no longer offering MagSafe that Apple brought it back. Maybe that's partially irrational because, as you say, the scenario of "I'm not at a place with good cable management, but I do need a cable" has gotten less relevant than ten years ago, but Apple clearly reverted the change for good reason.
This week would be perfect for me. Then I can run to an Apple store and compare the M4 15" Air and 14" Pro. Let's do this, Tim!
Not to mention the reveal of the original MacBook Air caused intel to set up a $300 million fund for PC makers to improve their laptop designs in order to compete with it.
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It’s just a chip swap.
It’s gonna be the exact same machine you see for sale right now but with an M4
To refresh powers of observation. The current Mac Book Pros have the two USB-C data/power ports of the left (sitting facing the laptop with lid open) along with the Mag Safe connector and headphone/speaker jack opening. Been this way for many generations. On the right side we get a single USB-C port plus HDMI and SD card slot since the M series processors came out.
Various vendors have made attachments for extra ports that plug into the left side of the "Pro" series such that the MagSafe power port is still available that will also work on the Mac Book Air family of computers.
Apple effectively says, if you need more ports than the Mac Book Air has, you can buy a bottom model of the M4 MacBook Pro with more ports for a hundred dollars more than the price of a fully loaded Mac Book Air (15" Mac Book Air with 24GB of memory and 2TB SSD is $2,299.00 vs 14" Mac Book Pro M4 with 24GB or memory and 2 TB SSD is $2,399).
For that $100 more one gets a much better screen and lots more ports.
A computer is NOT a necessity of life or we would have been born with one when we arrived. Most of the world's population do not own a computer.
Here in the USA and other comparatively wealthy countries, computer ownership can be achieved. I saw lots of first generation PCs running in South America in 2004 that probably had come from the offices in the USA but they did what the locals need to be done.
I have yet to read in any forum where the choice is between a computer or food for the family.... We do have some priorities 🤓
Various vendors have made attachments for extra ports that plug into the left side of the "Pro" series such that the MagSafe power port is still available that will also work on the Mac Book Air family of computers.
Apple effectively says, if you need more ports than the Mac Book Air has, you can buy a bottom model of the M4 MacBook Pro with more ports for a hundred dollars more than the price of a fully loaded Mac Book Air (15" Mac Book Air with 24GB of memory and 2TB SSD is $2,299.00 vs 14" Mac Book Pro M4 with 24GB or memory and 2 TB SSD is $2,399).
For that $100 more one gets a much better screen and lots more ports.
A computer is NOT a necessity of life or we would have been born with one when we arrived. Most of the world's population do not own a computer.
Here in the USA and other comparatively wealthy countries, computer ownership can be achieved. I saw lots of first generation PCs running in South America in 2004 that probably had come from the offices in the USA but they did what the locals need to be done.
I have yet to read in any forum where the choice is between a computer or food for the family.... We do have some priorities 🤓
its definately happening this week 
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Tim Cook teases new Apple product this week: 'There's something in the air' - 9to5Mac
In a new post on social media today, Tim Cook says Apple has a new product launch coming this week....
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