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

It looks good, but I really do not understand Apple's color choices.
Can they not synchronize so that the same EXACT colors exist between iMacs, watches, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks?

I can understand the MacBook Pro being made in silver and graphite (or whatever Apple calls it) but the consumer models should really fit together.
 
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MrGimper said:
Lost its soul by not being a wedge …. Now it’s just a MacBook really.
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Sort of like the iMac lost its soul by getting a neck in 2002?

Or when it adopted its current "computer inside the flat screen" design?

Product lines evolve.

The question is can your mind (and mine) evolve along with them?
 
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shrkbait20 said:
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.
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Air is their ultralight laptop, it's never going to have all the ports that the "chunkier pro" versions have. Thin and light comes with compromises, almost always. Also Apple isn't about that expandable/upgradable thing. They want you to give them money if you want more memory/storage, not go to some third party to get it cheaper. That's pretty much what they've always done, made it as difficult as possible for you to self upgrade because they want you to buy their latest and greatest with as short an upgrade cycle as possible.
 
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Be interesting to do a poll and see how many people use a notebook to use on battery, vs using it as a portable workstation that's transported from location to location and run on mains when there. Latter for me.
 
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mystery hill said:
…and support for multiple external displays.
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And that's not going to change anytime soon. The way the M series chips are architected you get one external display per GPU core cluster. The GPU cores are packaged 8 / 10 in a cluster. Each of those clusters supports 1 external display. I don't see that changing for the base M package anytime soon.
 
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Reason077 said:
The M2 Air looks great, but how does battery life compare with the M1 MacBook Air? Sounds like it might be a bit of a downgrade in battery?

Great that it has a brighter screen, though. That's pretty much the only thing that isn't perfect about my M1 Air.
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According to Apples specs battery-life is the same between M1 Air and M2 Air.
 
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FrameBreather said:
1560 EUR STARTING price. And still 8GB/256GB Base model. Makes me sick.
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Yes the base 256/8gb 8cpu8gpu M2 air should be $€1099, now the M2 air is now the same price as the M1 imac, Apple greed using the excuse of muh' inflation to price hike and price gouge non US customers , if mega inflation and currency fractionations was bad wouldn't the M1 air increase in price as well?

Wait until the M2 airs hit the Apple refub site, I predict there will be lots of ‘as new’ open box returns for first world problem reasons such as people wanting another colour..
 
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The way the M series chips are architected you get one external display per GPU core cluster. The GPU cores are packaged 8 / 10 in a cluster. Each of those clusters supports 1 external display.
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M1 Max configured with a 24-core GPU supports 4 external displays.
 
droplink said:
It looks good, but I really do not understand Apple's color choices.
Can they not synchronize so that the same EXACT colors exist between iMacs, watches, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks?

I can understand the MacBook Pro being made in silver and graphite (or whatever Apple calls it) but the consumer models should really fit together.
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I’m glad they didn’t do that. The blue of the Midnight is a beautiful, sleek and professional color that I can’t wait to order that reminds me of the Pacifica blue of the iPhone 12 Pro, only darker which is great.
The washed out pastels of the iMac line are gross, to be honest, belonging more on an Easter egg than a professional office.
 
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droplink said:
It looks good, but I really do not understand Apple's color choices.
Can they not synchronize so that the same EXACT colors exist between iMacs, watches, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks?

I can understand the MacBook Pro being made in silver and graphite (or whatever Apple calls it) but the consumer models should really fit together.
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Why?
 
I have the feeling I'll be making a loaded Midnight Air my next machines for the future. I love my M1 but in Photoshop and development I'm starting to knock on the 16GB headroom. 24GB will have me find for the next 3-4 at least, and a cheaper option than moving to a 32GB 14in.
 
Johnny907 said:
I’m glad they didn’t do that. The blue of the Midnight is a beautiful, sleek and professional color that I can’t wait to order that reminds me of the Pacifica blue of the iPhone 12 Pro, only darker which is great.
The washed out pastels of the iMac line are gross, to be honest, belonging more on an Easter egg than a professional office.
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..But the 24 iMac is advertised towards a consumer (home) market, and the Mac Studio and screen is marketed towards the office. And even then, you can get the 24" iMac in silver.
But true, there could / should have been a dark colored one too.
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Because it would make sense to have a color coordination. :)
 
TakeshimaIslands said:
Yes the base 256/8gb 8cpu8gpu M2 air should be $€1099, now the M2 air is now the same price as the M1 imac, Apple greed using the excuse of muh' inflation to price hike and price gouge non US customers , if mega inflation and currency fractionations was bad wouldn't the M1 air increase in price as well?

Wait until the M2 airs hit the Apple refub site, I predict there will be lots of ‘as new’ open box returns for first world problem reasons such as people wanting another colour..
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Apple used to have a fine balance between paying a bit more and getting a genuinely decent product.

Tim Cook has ruined Apples entire product line. So many versions of the same product and they charge you ridiculous prices for minor differences between them.

They just aren’t worth the money anymore. You actually feel ripped off paying those prices for what you get in return. £1249 starting in the UK for 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is laughable. Base model should at lease be 16GB RAM and 512 SSD at that price point.
 
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