Not an argument. It's a fact. I have over 20 menubar items. It is an issue. Probably why Apple came up with Control Center on the Mac... but still doesn't help.
I don't think you get how design/style change over time. Maybe you think that design looks outdated and too similar to 2006, but to me, the 2018 designs look outdated, overly polished and "breakable" for a computer. Apples new design is more simplistic and made to look like premium but slightly industrial feeling equipment. Maybe you don't like the design, but that doesn't mean Apple ruined it, it just means you don't like it. The new Macs aren't even close to 2006 machines. They've got thousands of times better speakers, displays, performance, battery, and yes build quality as well. And I happen to think they're MUCH better looking than the MacBooks they replaced, which used the same design language for quite some time.
If you mean the menubar items on the right, those have been a problem for years even before the notch came along. Many of us got Bartender to be able to move the less useful icons to another area. It and some clone apps work well for that. I've only got 6 icons show and about 18 in the Bartender overflow panel.
It seems more like the purpose of it is to seek validation for opinions that you know are ridiculous, and when it doesn't happen, throw a tantrum.
My next computer is a MacBook Pro. Apple has absolutely nailed it. Notch never bothered me on iPhones and certainly wouldn’t on a computer either.
I can understand someone not liking the design, sure that's a matter of opinion, but I cannot understand it being considered "cheap".
There will be no citation incoming I don't think as there's zero proof to the statement. Given the recent numbers that have some out, I'm betting the Air had a significant number of them.
While I think Ive's involvement is the main reason that the current iMac is an awful design (lack of ports, lack of internal power supply, etc), I do have to say that the current colors are NOT a "callback" to the original iMac. The original (and subsequent) colors were bold and aesthetically pleasing (bondi blue, tangerine, blueberry, grape, lime, strawberry, indigo, ruby, sage, etc.). I loved Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian, too. But the current iMac colors are awful. Muted pastels that look like they sat out in the sun too long and faded. The white bezels just add to the awkwardness of the color scheme. iMacs in a variety of colors? Great! The current colors?...pretty bad.
The last opinion poll I saw on the MBA design change (back when it came out) indicated he'd be in the majority. Not that Majority or Minority matters. Public consensus doesn't factor into Apple's design decisions. Apple could decide to shape everything like horse apples and everyone who needs a new computer capable of running 2023 software would still be buying it. Every car on the road made after 1969 looks like a plastic door stop too, yet the roads are full of them, because people need to get to work. The US doesn't need good design, it needs a steady supply of product to feed its gaping maw. Might as well have your crap designed by engineers. The rich can buy Italian if they appreciate design. Yeah, guess my industry.
Notice any difference in performance day to day? I think my ideal dream computer would be a Midnight 14” MBP. I want ProMotion with miniLED and the extra ports.
As simple as, because old MBA design is so thin and couldn’t fit more ports. After Jony left, nobody insists design over function.
Whatever floats your boat when justifying your purchase of last-gen product…
The M2 MacBook Air has a heat spreader that seems to work exceptionally well. In the iFixIt tear down you can see thermal paste which is only useful with a heat sink.
Everything. Also the fact that it feels much more stable, and much easier to lift the screen without lifting the whole computer.
Having been working with the M2 MBA on the the thighs, you don’t feel that the computer is hot. So unless you do things that is CPU/GPU intensive, I don’t think that you will feel that your Mac will get very hot.
You clearly weren't around during the days of the Apple III (nearly killed them) or the Aptiva... :/
