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Title says it all. :)
Go M1 or go home!
Or… wait for M2…
Apple MacBook Air 2020 13.3" with M1 Chip, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD $1,587 Delivered @ Amazon AU
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MX is just around the corner, where X is a known variable every year
it's X ~a_{n}=a_{n-1}+\gcd(n,a_{n-1}),\quad a_{1} = X++
How far off?
The base M1 Air is still very capable and has many years left in it
Same price at office works
they must have some sorta macro that scans ozbargain.. thought it displayed $16xx earlier!
They do.
It's not automated, they have a dedicated competitive pricing team comprised of humans, not bots.
Happy to go home
i'm already at home
i've no home
:(
Look on the bright side
No Windows
me too… want one.. but povo :(
Will anyone lend me a home?
Ask scomo
What do you do if your home is on the M1?
Pay the toll
Troll toll
Don't upgrade to M2 next year, the toll and traffic will hit you badly :p
If getting the air you’re better off choosing 16gb of ram with 256gb
Very subjective
You can get more storage via an external SSD. You can't upgrade RAM.
Not subjective.
8gb is fine for many use cases. I'm happy using some of my older machines with 4gb ram for some basic purposes. With a NAS at home, 256gb isn't too big a deal.
Know your use case, buy accordingly and save money.
If you know your use cases aren't going to change significantly, may as well buy this and pick up a more powerful machine when needed. You'll benefit from generational improvements as well.
Go M1 or go home!
So if you get an M1, you cannot go home?
Correct! Death awaits you in the details.
M1 came out 2 years ago? dammit
If not the speed camera, the tolls will kill you..
I really wish there was a pre-built 16GB version of the MacBook air… And then I wish it was this price
I mean, by all accounts, it should be.
There is a pre-built one. It's available at the Apple store - just get the model with 8 GPU cores, then spec it to 1TB and 16GB, and you'll see it's available at the Apple Store for pickup.
Just buy it at your local Officeworks if they have stock, literally the same price
Go M1 or go home!
Me who just bought a $2500 Zephyrus G14: 😐
Bought an iPad Pro 12.9" 128GB for about $1600 few days ago, not sure if it's worth it…
It's worth it because you are worth it.
Depends on what you use it for.
Hopefully the rumoured iPadOS changes are true and enable Mac like functionality
Lol, bought an iPad Air and then bought a MBA shortly afterwards.
I personally found it takes a lot of use from my PC which is almost exclusively for gaming now. It felt a lot better than wintel laptops i've used over the past few years in terms of responsiveness, noise, screen. The tablet gets used, but nowhere near as much as I thought it would.
is 512G better than 256G + 1T external SSD?
and same question for ipadYou need to better work out what you want to do with the device.
If it was me, I would go for the 512GB and hope the 1TB SSD drops in price by the time I need it.
That's a lot of money for a laptop that cant run many things.
Maybe that's why they're so thermally cool and low power.
Goes directly against what is said in reviews and user feedback… but anyway
As an owner of a M1 device, I strongly suggest people thinking about getting one think it through. It's not as good as what reviewers had you believe. You can see a lot of reviews online from click bait reviewers now saying they have M1 Pro / M1 Max devices claiming they need more memory (which 2 years ago, they were saying most people would be fine with 8GB RAM).
Also, while it is power efficient, Apple obviously had M1 Pro and M1 Max in mind. USB 3.2 gen 1 and gen 2 backward compatibility via Thunderbolt 3 speed is subpar on M1. 2 USB-C ports only (sure, you can argue they are not 2 x 2 with splitter like previous Macbook Pros, but unless you are willing to go for a Thunderbolt 3 dock, you will find 2 ports restricted). Also, USB-C / PD passthrough is not a 100% passthrough via majority of the cheap docks.
Be cynical because we generally cannot offer a very objective review if we bought the item with our own money. Also, you need to have real expectation in 2022. What was great in 2020 doesn't mean it is still that great.
It is a good way to get into Mac as Apple did price these lower than previous gen MBPs.
Thank you netsurfer - this is a much more balanced comment. People should definitely be assessing what a machine will be used for.
Admittedly, my uses are quite limited - light photo editing, light development and general web browsing. For these lighter workloads, I find the machine to be great even compared to an MBP. I also know that the M1 MBA is not a replacement for the MBP with 32GB memory.
@ihfree: It's fine for people who already bought it. M1 devices are not that expensive and there aren't exactly great PC laptop offerings in this price range. Power efficiency is excellent in today's standard for M1 still. However, performance isn't amazing. Think about it, Apple is using it on iPad Pro, iPad Air as well. Perhaps that's the reason the I/O is somewhat disappointing.
If you want an M1 device, sure get it. However, it is definitely not M1 or go home. There are compromises you are going with M1. Bear in mind, you can consistently find a lot of youTubers now talk about M1 Max. If you do a lot of work with a Mac, you really should look at M1 Pro or better.
If you spec the M1 MBA with 16gb memory it's absolutely more power than most people will need for the next 5 years. Hell, I edit 4k video on Davinci Resolve and find it's more than enough even with my 8GB version. They aren't overly complex edits but considering it's fanless, it's extraordinary.
@bunnybash: Do you use an external monitor to edit your 4K video most of the time? This M1 MBA being so great doesn't feel so great when the Thunderbolt chipset is clearly from Intel so why is the USB 3.2 gen 1 and gen 2 back compatibility mode inferior? We all know about first gen products likely to have some issues. Also, what's the deal holding back PCIe gen 4 on M1? Or, Apple did cost cut and choke the M1 a bit? It's annoying when Intel 8th gen MBPs offer better external I/O performance.
We do have to factor in that, while Intel 12th gen is no where near power efficient, Intel did at least try to include more this time around and boost the performance. 4 x 4K displays for 11th gen mobile laptop CPU being possible. Intel has now started PCIe gen 5 in the 12th gen.
If you need a laptop now and this happens to be in your price range, then sure, go for it. However, knowing that clearly Apple has some work to do for M1 AND Thunderbolt 4 and Alt-mode/DP 2.0 is on the horizon, M1 does feel like a transition period product. It's not entirely Apple's fault. It has a lot to do with what's available. If Apple were to include Thunderbolt 4 support in M4 and respond to Intel's 4 x 4K support in M2, will you still feel M1 is so amazing?
If you don't need a laptop right now, might consider waiting a bit. Also, try to take a harsher view on M1 now (as it is 2022). M1 Pro/Max/Ultra are out so you can now tell what Apple removed from M1.
@netsurfer: I do use an external Dell 4k monitor. It's connected via the USB C. I have zero issues in my day to day use. (Before an update actually, sometimes I had issues with the refresh rate of the monitor and videos from Netflix etc, but it's gone now, not sure what actually happened to fix it!)
Everyone's use case is different but this is amazing for me as I do a lot of video calls too, and not having a fan is so incredibly useful. Silent operation is highly underrated.
Also, Rosetta seems to work seamlessly for me too. I get there are some technical specs that might not be up to snuff, but my day to day experience is amazing with mine, the only thing is that sometimes I think 16gb might be a better option, but for the most part, it's just a theory that it might help, I'm not sure where or how it would - I don't get stuttering or those beach ball spinning things.
I did decide to use Spark for email and calendar instead of having Gmail tabs open for my 3 Gmail accounts because Gmail tabs do take up ludicrous amounts of memory and Spark handles it all with aplomb and only uses 300MB of memory.
Macbook Pro are using 8th gen or 10th gen chips whereas Macbook Air using M1 chip. So is Intel chip more obsolete proof than M1 chips?. Yet I saw a macbook 8th gen display set going for $840? Anyone can explain the diff?
You generally want M1 because it is faster than Intel 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th gen laptop CPUs. There is, however, one trade off. You can no longer run bootcamp and boot native Windows 7, 10, 11. Another one is some of the apps which are not M1 native need to run via Rosetta 2.
M1 in theory will be supported longer than Intel Macs. However, M1 is the first time Apple uses Apple silicon on Macbooks and does have some quirks. To keep the cost down, the GPU, while having some video acceleration, isn't that good (because you can only have 1 external display). PCIe gen 4 is not available for M1 (but M1 Pro/Max/Ultra uses PCIe gen 4 internal SSD). Will Apple address all or some of those issues in M2 (and also fixes the lower than usual USB 3.2 gen 1/2 speed)? If yes, will that affect M1's value later on?
Basically, right now, if you need to get a Macbook Pro 13 / Air, go M1. If you don't need one right now, then perhaps wait. Intel MBA/MBPs, they really need to be at bargain price before you would consider AND the ability to run both Mac OS and Windows has to be one of a key reasons.
Make sense 👍
Yeah gaming sucks on M1 MBA - haha I love mine, but it should be so much better for games, but not being able to run windows hurts it. I can run CSGO at around 90fps which is fine on a 60hz monitor but yeah if running a few games is important to you, maybe get an intel Mac. Or just wait to see what happens in the next releases of M chips.
I will wait for price drop below $1199 after m2 release on 6 June 22 .
M2 is just around the corner