Hmm yeah I hadn't considered that...I get all hot and bothered thinking how easy to travel with an 11" with small bezels will be but alas...
I was waiting for this since I wanted to ditch my old Surface Laptop 2 (I hated that thing) and go back to a MacBook since I used to own a 2010 Air and missed it greatly. After the reviews for the M2 Pro dropped and saw how small the improvement was over the M1, I just said fuck it and bought an M1 Air this week instead. Now seeing these reviews on the M2 Air I think I made the right choice. As someone who doesn't do a ton of extensive work on a laptop and just wanted a laptop back in the Apple ecosystem, the M1 Air is the better value here, especially with the sales that were going on this week. $1200 is just bullshit for this thing. It reminds me of the 12" MacBook all over again. So far I'm extremely pleased with the M1 Air.
I'll wait and see what the M3 Air offers in a few years.
Same but 17" 2011 MBP
Weird question: is the M1 and M2 chips proprietary hardware that could never be leased out to other companies who are having "chip shortage" issues? Or am I an idiot and that the M1 and M2 are not similar to the chips in a chip shortage?
I guess they fear reverse-engineering and losing their grip on the market? I know that basically all of their stuff is proprietary tech but it seems they're excluded from the chip shortage because of they development their own stuff in-house.The entirety of the chip is proprietary but some components that makes up for the chip aren't. But Apple can afford to pay more for manufacturing capacity to get all the chips they need and manufactures are happy to do that.
They're "excluded" from the chip shortage because Apple has more money than god and has paid for a significant amount of space on TSMC's line.I guess they fear reverse-engineering and losing their grip on the market? I know that basically all of their stuff is proprietary tech but it seems they're excluded from the chip shortage because of they development their own stuff in-house.
The lack of official multiple external display support kills me. Does anyone with the M1 have any firsthand experience doing this with displaylink?
it is surprising they maintained the single display for air. I would have thought it would go to at least two. That said, if you go with a 32 or 34 inch display that is at least 4k the single display works well.
I doubt there will ever be a bump as consequential as the one to M1feel like the jump to M1 was much more consequential than the jump to M2
Nothing to feel here, it is true? You don't switch to a brand new, more efficient chip architecture many more times than once.feel like the jump to M1 was much more consequential than the jump to M2
Wait, that's a thing?I 100% agree with it for the vast majority of family, friends, and colleagues.
For "high end" I always recommend the pre-built "secret" store SKU they almost always have. Usually has an increase in RAM and more storage but without going overboard.
Hasn't that been disproven?Wonder if M2 mba has the same swap file usage issue that M1 mba does. I love my M1, but the cumulative disk usage is insane and I wonder how many years the SSD will last.
Nothing about this makes me regret my launch M1 Air or envious of the new one.
They're not excluded from the chip shortage — look at the wait times on many configurations of 14/16-inch MacBook Pro, eight months after launch. They just have more money and higher margins than anyone else and so can buy up all the available capacity.I guess they fear reverse-engineering and losing their grip on the market? I know that basically all of their stuff is proprietary tech but it seems they're excluded from the chip shortage because of they development their own stuff in-house.
it is surprising they maintained the single display for air. I would have thought it would go to at least two. That said, if you go with a 32 or 34 inch display that is at least 4k the single display works well.
Lots of reviews of the M2 MBP compared it to the M1 Pro — the Air should be fairly similar but with slightly lower sustained performance.Is there anywhere I can compare benchmarks for the base 14" MBP vs the base 2022 Air? Interested in how the M2 compares to the M1 Pro.
I realize Air 2022 has no fan so sustained performance could be an issue. Heaviest lifting I do though is just simple 4K video editing (short 1-2 minute videos without anything fancy going on in Premiere Pro).
I use a Display link converter and it works amazingly well.The lack of official multiple external display support kills me. Does anyone with the M1 have any firsthand experience doing this with displaylink?
Yeah, single monitor support is an easy pass for me. Weird that it only supports one.Yes, but I already have the 2x monitors at home and work! I hate that they have have effectively locked me out of a really exciting upgrade -- when i'm eligible for a new laptop at work, even. I'm kind of stuck.
Every manufacturer does this. MS still sells devices with 128gb storage as a default. GarbageWhat is it with Apple and totally screwing with people on storage space? 512GB as the UPGRADE? You can easily find 1TB drives under $100
What is it with Apple and totally screwing with people on storage space? 512GB as the UPGRADE? You can easily find 1TB drives under $100
Yup. Upselling is a major profit centre.Every manufacturer does this. MS still sells devices with 128gb storage as a default. Garbage
Hmm. Wish this didn't have a price increase cuz now I'm conflicted
Kind of tempted to get a m1 air with 16/512 refurb. The price comes out to be about the same as base m2… not sure what to get.
Yeah and I'm not using it for anything to taxing but I'd like it as a personal computer for sometime. Prob will go for it. Just heard a lot of complaints with 8 gb ram
Yeah and I'm not using it for anything to taxing but I'd like it as a personal computer for sometime. Prob will go for it. Just heard a lot of complaints with 8 gb ram