Potential all time low for the 2020 M1 Macbook Air. Price beat this morning at Officeworks, bringing it down to $1,063.05.
Happy Easter!
Whoops, fixed.
Would've been a stellar deal for the 2030 model!
Terminator MacBook - sent back in time to stop the year of the Linux Desktop. Press F for Gaben.
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Great deal especially if you can get to Officeworks.
Getting OOS now..
OOS
A better deal than the education pricing with free airpods, holy cow!
Great machine (typing on one now), great price.
How long do you get security updates for this machine?
'til Apple stops providing them
My 2012 Mac mini (which I'm typing this on right now) received its latest security update on July 20, 2022 (i.e. the latest Catalina security patch). So that was 10 years.
However, using Open Core Legacy Patcher, I was able to upgrade it past Catalina, so it still gets security updates.
There's no reason to expect the 10 year ballpark figure for updates would be any different on Apple Silicon. And by 2030, I'm sure there will be options available to keep the hardware running if you're technically inclined.
OOS ; The other cheapest option is 1129 here https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/285179568341?epid=4042405751&has…
Plus postage.
Can I ask what might be a very dumb question…so, it says it has a "7-Core GPU" but what realistically can you run/play on these things? I'm not traditionally an Apple user but I've always been curious to what games could be played on them that wouldn't run at a horrible frame rate.
I don't know much about these new Macs. But a quick google search found this:
https://www.macgamerhq.com/hardware/can-i-run-it-mac/
This 2020 M1 model comes up as "good" in their gaming test.
Mind you this is a ARM based SoC, which means you can't really play x86 games anyway….. iOS games is fine though.
Yeah, you can. There's Rosetta 2. See the link in the first reply - there are plenty of playable x86 games.
Performance wouldn't be very good compared to native
@Budju: Yep, but that said, there are various sites that track what it can run. There's no way you'd buy these for primarily gaming so I would consider any games that it can play to be a bonus.
The community is also large enough that you can see how a game runs and the method used. In addition to the website linked in another comment, there is also https://applesilicongames.com/ which used to be a spreadsheet tracking how games run on Apple Silicon.
There are also some more mainstream game releases for Apple Silicon - eg Resident Evil Village. There's an interesting future for Mac gaming.
Most games just won't run natively on an M1 Mac. So even though the chip is capable, you're not really going to be gaming on it.
For more info: https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-m1-gaming/#apple-m1-pro…
Apple's GPUs aren't marketed towards gamers, it's for creative/production professionals.
Think of them as a high end Intel quadro .
As an M1 Max MacBook Pro user, I'd caution you against getting a Mac for gaming, it's generally a pretty crappy experience and you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get many games to run (whether they're Windows only, or Mac but are old and only compiled for Intel so you have to run them through the Rosetta emulation layer).
There are YouTube channels like Andrew Tsai's that show you what it's like — bear in mind he is 100% invested in this stuff so he is always hyped and super enthusiastic, but I find it way too much hassle to deal with:
https://www.youtube.com/@Andytizer/videos
My MBP is my daily driver/productivity computer but I have a dedicated Windows PC and PS5 for my gaming needs. You do get some Mac game releases that have been natively compiled for ARM64, but they are still relatively uncommon. I doubt this situation will change anytime soon, gaming on macOS will always take a backseat.
Not much because not many games are avaliable on OSX natively. You can't even run bootcamp Windows on M1 chips anymore (like you could with previous intel macs). You could technically run Parrallels but because you are emulating Windows, games will run slow as shit (also you only have 8gb to play with which after emulating windows and running OSX leaves f.a for shared mem for games).
Does officeworks beat the price if out of stock from bing lee?
I'm not even an apple guy and was considering this option but i don't think they will QQ
Just called them and she was onto me no stock
Tried in store, no dice.
Nope. Perhaps inspect element the webpage? It may work if they only check for proof on your phone/laptop (in this case)?
I had one of these for 2 years and sold it for $900 a couple of weeks when I upgraded to a MacBook Pro. I was impressed with how it held value!
1499 on apple store, so this is good bargain
Disappointed I missed this, hoping other retailers will drop prices of the M1 models
For those who missed out, I called my local Bing Lee after the deal had expired who were able to order it in for me for $1119.00. It was out of stock in store however, the sales rep ordered the stock I have picked it up today. Worth a try.
Macbook Air 2030?