Apple MacBook Air 13" M3 8GB 256GB Midnight - MRXV3X/A $1575 Delivered @ PhoneX

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Apple MacBook Air 13" M3 8GB 256GB Midnight - MRXV3X/A $1575 Delivered @ PhoneX
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AssociatedPsamhere on 01/07/2024 - 20:24 phonex.au (180 clicks)
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The M3 chip brings even greater capabilities to the superportable 13-inch MacBook Air. With up to 18 hours of battery life[1], you can take it anywhere and power through work and play

Key Features:
Lean. Mean. M3 Machine
The blazing-fast MacBook Air with the M3 chip is a superportable laptop that sails through work and play.

Portable Design
Lightweight and under 1.2 centimetres thin, so you can take MacBook Air anywhere you go.

Get More Done Faster
The powerful 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU of the Apple M3 chip keep things running smoothly.

Up To 18 Hours Of Battery Life[1]
Amazing, all-day battery life so you can leave the power adapter at home.

A Brilliant Display
The 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display[2] supports 1 billion colours.

Look Sharp, Sound Great
Everything looks and sounds amazing with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, three mics and four speakers with Spatial Audio.

Apps Fly With Apple Silicon
All your favourites, from Microsoft 365 to Adobe Creative Cloud, run lightning-fast in macOS.[3]

Get Connected
MacBook Air features two Thunderbolt ports, a headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6E[4], Bluetooth® 5.3 and a MagSafe charging port. And connect up to two external displays with the laptop lid closed.

If You Love Iphone, You’ll Love Mac
MacBook Air works like magic with your other Apple devices.[5] Start an email on your iPhone and finish it on your Mac. Send text messages from your Mac. And much more.

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Comments

  • chrism238 on 01/07/2024 - 21:47
    +6

    What? All the 8GB-haters gone to bed already?

    • sircomplainsalot on 01/07/2024 - 22:28
      +2

      fine i'll start, only 8gbs in this day and age? /s

    • GeneralSkunk on 01/07/2024 - 22:31

      640KB is all anybody will ever need. 😁

    • HolyCr4p on 02/07/2024 - 07:01

      Is it good to watch youtube and netflix?

  • mantichoral on 01/07/2024 - 22:42
    +7

    No fan, so there's no cooling of the processor.
    Midnight Blue, to best soak up the most sun.

    So, totally ready for the Australian summer and climate change, then.

    And only 256GB is half the performance of the two-chip 512GB model, which matters most when you only have 8GB to start with and the use is thrashing virtual memory all the time, generating even more heat.

    Just saying 'only 8GB' is a lazy knee-jerk reaction. Do it properly.

  • kml22 on 01/07/2024 - 22:45

    Nobody is buying the 8GB ripped off. Unless it's really cheap.

    • CrispyChrispy on 02/07/2024 - 01:11
      +1

      Nobody is buying the 8GB

      You'd be surprised

  • HeyHi on 01/07/2024 - 23:52

    Can we replace the RAM ?

    Found it - soldered RAM

    • hawkeye93 on 02/07/2024 - 00:23

      You think Apple would let you do that? Unless you’re savvy enough.

      • Commodore64 on 02/07/2024 - 08:28

        My first Macbook Pro came with 8gb of ram back in 2007. Even though it's an Air, at this price point you'd want something a but more future proof.

      • pizzaguy on 02/07/2024 - 08:48

        Savvy enough to replace the whole M processor together with its memory for another M with its memory from another Mac that you also need to purchase?

        Sounds like a very expensive exercise in microsoldering. Or an extravagant experiment.

        • hawkeye93 on 02/07/2024 - 13:38
          +1

          I have seen videos from those repair stores in China upgrading memory for iphone 15. They have the equipment/machines to do this.

  • stuarty9 on 02/07/2024 - 08:10

    Base M2 13" was able to be gotten for $1281.55 @ Officeworks pre July 1. JB had it for $1349 then PB at Officeworks made it a decent deal.
    Wouldn't be surprised if that price is available again shortly..

    • Commodore64 on 02/07/2024 - 08:31

      That seems about what I'd be willing to pay for it. Otherwise may as well get an iPad pro (or even air).
      Similar processor and about the same same amount of ram.
      Excluding my work macbook for development… I'm preferring my iPad Pro over my macbook these days ever since the improved stage manager, once you plug it into a thunderbolt dock with display and keyboard you can drag windows around much like a desktop, and can pick it up and go more easily.

  • kogi on 02/07/2024 - 09:01

    I am curious on how the activity monitor looks like for people with 8gb ram

    I have 16gb and with 12 browsers tabs open it's using 11gb of ram.
    hmm, and it looks like steam is using 1gb

    • pizzaguy on 02/07/2024 - 10:20
      +2

      FWIW, it doesn't exactly work that way.

      It's not like if your 12 tabs use 11 GB right now, so 24 tabs need 22 GB. The operating system is there to balance what to keep in the processor's cache, what to keep in the memory, what to write to the drive for the time being. Your Steam and Chrome (or what have you) will be happy to have even more RAM to themselves if it's free and system allocates it. And if there's more memory than your currently open apps require, the OS may start indexing files or do whatever it needs in the background. Because, you know, it can.

      That's a very rough explainer.

      • kogi on 02/07/2024 - 10:52
        +1

        That's why I would like to know what the "activity monitor" of someone with 8gb of ram looks like.

        • pizzaguy on 02/07/2024 - 11:03
          +1

          Fair enough. But yet, to illustrate how elusive it is to gauge that kind of usage these days, on my 64 GB MBP M1 Max, 53 GBs are currently in use by everything, out of which all Chrome processes for my 94 tabs take 9 GB.

          Then, when I actually cycled through every single of those tabs and refreshed, so they're not asleep or anything, it's 11.5 GB memory for all Chrome processes in total.

    • netsurfer on 02/07/2024 - 11:00
      +2

      Only have an old Intel Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM. 12 Chrome Tabs + OS + a bunch of bank app add-ons, 5.90GB RAM out of 8GB RAM used, no swap used according to Activity Monitor). 3 Chome Tabs are set to youTube, the other are various different sites.

      Screenshot of an Intel Mac with 8GB RAM, having 12 Chrome tabs opened

      Without Chrome, just OS and a bunch of bank app add-ons: 2.83GB RAM used.

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