I recently got an M2 Air and it is the perfect laptop (for me). I would find the 15" too big, but glad it's there as an option for those who want it.
Does it support more than one external display? The lack of that feature was the primary thing that drove me to choose a 13" MacBook Pro instead.
Looks great, but base RAM is still only 8GB which (incredibly) is barely enough to browse the internet these days.
Why does it cost $400 to add another 16GB of RAM when the chips themselves cost $50 on Best Buy? Is it that much more expensive to make the RAM small enough to fit in the Air?
Is there a reason to prefer macrumors over the original https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-introduces-the-... ?
$1,299 is a great price point. I guess their share price implies growth that's not available just targeting the high-end. Any idea of UK pricing yet?
i have a perfectly usable MBP right now, but this is the laptop that i've been waiting for. seems to hit the sweet spot on price while having a large screen but still "thin & light".
I don't care how thin it is - a Macbook Air does not have a 15" display.
The hoped for model goes the other direction - a new 11" MBA.
Has Apple fixed their dying keyboards? This is the only major flaw I've encountered with Macbooks. I've had it happen twice with my Intel Macbook Pro from 2015 and now for the first time with my M1 Macbook Air from 2020. It's that issue where keys start to die, and it seems to usually start with the R key and progressively gets worse with more keys dying. It's an issue Louis Rossmann has mentioned in the past, so I know it's not just me.
The reason I'm asking is that, given the upcoming M2 Macbook Air, I'm debating whether to have someone swap out the keyboard for my M1 or just go ahead and upgrade to M2. But if the keyboard on my M2 is going to start dying in a couple years no matter how well I take care of it then I'll pass and go with the repair instead.
I'm still running a 2020 M1 MBP and this looks pretty similar, so I'm considering making the jump. Am I missing anything important? I mostly like my current MBP but I would really appreciate a larger screen and actual function keys, ideally without shelling out $3k+. Any ideas what I would gain or lose by making the switch? Are there better options?
I was hoping to get 10 cores and 32gb of RAM but I have to spend a lot more for that on the MB16.
The 13 inch Macbook Air M2 price has gone down EUR200 in Europe, making it much more attractive.
I think this is a great move. I wanted to get my girlfriend a Macbook Air, but the smaller screen was the only deal breaker. She doesn't want to use an external monitor, and outside of the occasional USB stick, doesn't use any peripherals.
This is easily the best product Apple has launched today. Apple has needed a system for people who want a large screen but don't have the performance requirements nor want the weight and price of the 16" MacBook Pro.
With 16gb of ram and 512gb ssd, you may as well get a refurbished 14 inch pro. Much better screen, better speakers, and better performance / future proofing, same weight, similar screen size, for approx. the same price.
Holy crap, it'll cost $1750 in Sweden. I remember the days when you could add a zero at the end of the USD proce to get the SEK price.
Hopefully they fixed the display flicker issue.
When are they going to get rid of the notch?
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It's bizarre to me they're still bragging about performance relative to Intel macs. I guess there's been diminishing returns after the ARM transition, or else they'd be comparing to M1?