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that midnight colour is gorg, it reminds me of the black polycarbonate MacBook

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Base Air is only 8 core CPU 8 core GPU at $1200 USD. 18 hr “movie playback” on 52.6 watt hour battery. Comes with 30w power adapter. MagSafe. Touch ID only. 1080p front face camera.
Base Pro is 8 core CPU 10 core GPU for $1300 USD. 20 hours “movie playback on 58.2 watt hour battery. Comes with the 67w power adapter. Not MagSafe. Touch Bar and Touch ID. 720 front face camera. But active cooling.

So for $100 with the pro, you gain 2 more graphics cores, “2 hours” or 5.6 watt hours of battery”, a 67w charger, active cooling, and Touch Bar (not necessarily a huge selling point).
The advantages of Air over Pro are: Liquid Retina (vs Retina display, whatever the difference is) 13.6" Vs 13.3" screen size. 1080p Vs 720p front camera, MagSafe, and a bad ass midnight color.

Idk…. I have been waiting over a year to upgrade my 2012 MBP 13”. Insane that for how much money they are asking, you only get a base of 8 Gb memory and 256gb ssd. Really with they had included an SD card reader to add expandable storage (was looking at the flush SD cards available on amazon); $200 for a storage upgrade is ridiculously steep. Tough to decide which one to go with now, including 2020 M1 air (which order I just canceled at sale price of $899). As others have stated, I feel that the price scheme is way off.
2 GPU cores don't mean much
 
That Midnight looks really slick. Still, I think my M1 MBA (16 GB / 1 TB, refurb for $1399) should be good enough for a while, and the upgrade seems fairly minor and probably not noticeable for what I do.

That said, I HATE the notch.
 
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Going to keep my M1 from last year, but wow is that a nice laptop. I'm definitely going starlight or midnight next upgrade, though!
 
They really need a 15” Air at this point. M2 is kinda meh, I think M3 on TSMC 4nm or hopefully 3nm process node will be where it’s at!

I want a Midnight 14” MBP, M3 Max 16 core CPU, 48 core GPU, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD, OLED display, and Face ID.

Autumn 2023 can’t come soon enough! I want to dock it to a 32” or 36” 6K OLED or similar display. Hopefully some other companies come out with some more reasonably priced displays by then (aka under $3000). Should be powerful enough that I won’t need a separate desktop and should last me the rest of the decade. Although with the M2 offering up to 24GB of RAM, there is a chance the M3 Max might offer something weird like 96GB of RAM so I might do that just to future proof. Really doubt I’ll need 8TB of SSD internally with the cloud becoming more prevalent so that’s hard to call. Wish they could offer in-between storage tiers, like 6TB.
 
Midnight is beautiful, but it looks like a smudge/fingerprint magnet judging by those pictures. I think I will stick with space grey and keep my OCD in check.
 
Probably said a thousand times in this thread: but this is nearly perfect machine
(maybe add 5G though)
 
Yes! Perfect time to upgrade my trusty old late-2013 MBP. The battery is no longer charging and the display is on its last leg as well. I don't actually mind the price of these since I don't upgrade that often. 16Gb will be enough for me, that price bump for 24Gb is a bit too steep.

Kinda disappointed that there's no purple version, but that midnight looks pretty good. Not sure if I'm going to go with that or space grey, not a huge blue fan and would have preferred actual black version instead. It's so hard to tell from all the pictures what it's actually like, in some it looks like dark grey in some it looks almost black and in some it looks to have bluish tint.

Also what is the starlight supposed to be? Like, beige or off white? It's kind of weird because of how close to silver it is but just a little warmer. I guess I was expecting there to be more clearer differences between all the colors.
 
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Base Air is only 8 core CPU 8 core GPU at $1200 USD. 18 hr “movie playback” on 52.6 watt hour battery. Comes with 30w power adapter. MagSafe. Touch ID only. 1080p front face camera.
Base Pro is 8 core CPU 10 core GPU for $1300 USD. 20 hours “movie playback on 58.2 watt hour battery. Comes with the 67w power adapter. Not MagSafe. Touch Bar and Touch ID. 720 front face camera. But active cooling.

So for $100 with the pro, you gain 2 more graphics cores, “2 hours” or 5.6 watt hours of battery”, a 67w charger, active cooling, and Touch Bar (not necessarily a huge selling point).
The advantages of Air over Pro are: Liquid Retina (vs Retina display, whatever the difference is) 13.6" Vs 13.3" screen size. 1080p Vs 720p front camera, MagSafe, and a bad ass midnight color.

Idk…. I have been waiting over a year to upgrade my 2012 MBP 13”. Insane that for how much money they are asking, you only get a base of 8 Gb memory and 256gb ssd. Really with they had included an SD card reader to add expandable storage (was looking at the flush SD cards available on amazon); $200 for a storage upgrade is ridiculously steep. Tough to decide which one to go with now, including 2020 M1 air (which order I just canceled at sale price of $899). As others have stated, I feel that the price scheme is way off.
It wouldn’t be Apple if the pricing scheme wasn’t way off and the base specs would actually be adequate for a laptop in 2022 (16GB RAM and 512GB SSD).
 
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Immediately after the WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple invited the media to a hands-on demo area for the new MacBook Air, which features an overhauled design with a slightly larger display, a notch, flatter edges, and new Starlight and Midnight color options.

m2-macbook-air-midnight.jpeg

CNET photographer James Martin shared photos of the new MacBook Air in Midnight on Twitter. Depending on the lighting, the color looks like a mix of navy blue and space gray. While some rumors suggested the new MacBook Air would feature a white keyboard, the keys are in fact black, and the Midnight-colored chassis is visible between the keys. The keyboard retains full-size function keys and a Touch ID button for authentication.

m2-macbook-air-midnight-2.jpeg

Tech journalist Nobi Hayashi tweeted photos of the Silver and Starlight color options, with the latter appearing to be a champagne-like gold.

m2-macbook-air-starlight-silver.jpeg

The new MacBook Air features Apple's all-new M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, a brighter 13.6-inch display with a notch, MagSafe charging, a 1080p camera, a fanless design, two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the left side, a headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones, four speakers, three microphones, and more. The notebook can be configured with up to a 2TB SSD and up to 24GB of unified memory.

The new MacBook Air will be available next month, but no specific date has been provided by Apple. Pricing will start at $1,199 in the United States, and the previous-generation MacBook Air with the M1 chip will remain available for $999.

Article Link: Redesigned MacBook Air With New Starlight and Midnight Colors Revealed in First Hands-On Photos



Immediately after the WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple invited the media to a hands-on demo area for the new MacBook Air, which features an overhauled design with a slightly larger display, a notch, flatter edges, and new Starlight and Midnight color options.

m2-macbook-air-midnight.jpeg

CNET photographer James Martin shared photos of the new MacBook Air in Midnight on Twitter. Depending on the lighting, the color looks like a mix of navy blue and space gray. While some rumors suggested the new MacBook Air would feature a white keyboard, the keys are in fact black, and the Midnight-colored chassis is visible between the keys. The keyboard retains full-size function keys and a Touch ID button for authentication.

m2-macbook-air-midnight-2.jpeg

Tech journalist Nobi Hayashi tweeted photos of the Silver and Starlight color options, with the latter appearing to be a champagne-like gold.

m2-macbook-air-starlight-silver.jpeg

The new MacBook Air features Apple's all-new M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, a brighter 13.6-inch display with a notch, MagSafe charging, a 1080p camera, a fanless design, two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the left side, a headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones, four speakers, three microphones, and more. The notebook can be configured with up to a 2TB SSD and up to 24GB of unified memory.

The new MacBook Air will be available next month, but no specific date has been provided by Apple. Pricing will start at $1,199 in the United States, and the previous-generation MacBook Air with the M1 chip will remain available for $999.

Article Link: Redesigned MacBook Air With New Starlight and Midnight Colors Revealed in First Hands-On Photos
1560 EUR STARTING price. And still 8GB/256GB Base model. Makes me sick.
 
Yes, I noticed them too. I'd have to see one in an Apple store to see how the finish stands up to fingerprints / smudges. As beautiful as the Midnight colour looks, it would drive me nuts if it turned out to be a fingerprint magnate.
I don't know what kind of material they'd have to create to avoid smudges. At least it isn't as bad looking as, let's say the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon series. Those look absolutely disgusting after a while because of the black matte material. My boss has one of those and it looks disgusting tbh. At least with a metallic surface like the Macbooks, it's relatively easy to just wipe it clean.
 
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