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

There are some nice features there, including the gorgeous design, yet there are some things that are just inadmissible:

  • No SD card reader.
  • Frigging notch.
  • Weird display size that keeps messing up Apple's lineup. Why the heck not just a 14'' screen!
  • 200 bucks too expensive.
 
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UK-MacAddict said:
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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It's what the market can bear I suppose.

I want to say that these are just Facebook and Instagram machines for most people that buy them, and these customers aren't even aware of the amount of memory or storage in the machine that they're buying.

Basically, most people buy them for design and not power; most of the customers don't care for 16GB/512GB configuration hence Apple can opt for 8GB/256GB instead.

If Apple could get away with 4GB/128GB, they would... That's what Microsoft does with the Surface lol. Windows 11 is efficient enough for them to get away with it.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
same, I’ve got an M1 Air with the eight core GPU, 16 GB of memory and 1TB of storage.
Hoping to sell for $500-700 (I originally paid something like $1549) and get The new one with exact same specifications except for a 512 GB storage instead of 1TB.
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Not worth the money loss for a 1.5 % upgrade in speed. I’d wait till the next refresh. Just my opinion.
 
Biglethal69 said:
Not worth the money loss for a 1.5 % upgrade in speed. I’d wait till the next refresh. Just my opinion.
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Where is the 1.5% from? I don’t remember seeing that. You mean the M2 is only 1.5% faster than the M1? Because those aren’t the numbers Apple is advertising.
 
I still remember when Jobs introduced the first MacBook Air. He pulled it out of an envelope. That picture got stuck in my head: "The Air is the one that goes into an envelope". It was the epitome of "thin".
Now, with the new design, it kind of lost this appeal, or charme, to me.
 
vjpulp said:
I still remember when Jobs introduced the first MacBook Air. He pulled it out of an envelope. That picture got stuck in my head: "The Air is the one that goes into an envelope". It was the epitome of "thin".
Now, with the new design, it kind of lost this appeal, or charme, to me.
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you still have traditional MBA m1
 
Admiral said:
The M2 MacBook Air is still limited to a single external monitor.
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Damned. My M1 Air is more than powerful enough for me, but I quite often need multiple monitor support. A bit overkill to go Pro just to be able to use more than one external monitor.
 
MrGimper said:
Lost its soul by not being a wedge …. Now it’s just a MacBook really.
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I actually agree with you. The Air desperately needed a refresh in terms of its bezel, speakers, etc, but I think the tapered/wedge design still looked good, even all these years later. It's an attractive machine now, but I would have liked to have seen them keep the wedge or maybe just tweak it rather than get rid of it altogether.
 
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