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Well it’s in.. hopefully it isn’t garbage otherwise it’ll be going back and I’ll regret moving an m1 air on..
Poll: *** The official 2022 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M2 chip, MagSafe and everything!) ***
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I'm waiting until I can see it in store. Happy to hang on until then before ordering.
As above might be worth holding to see if there are any back to school offers on it if you can get educational discount.
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Realised I ordered space grey which I didn’t want.. just went to see when I could get a replacement in silver and it’s mid to late august for the same spec. I may DSR it, will nip to curry’s on Friday to have a look (assuming they have them in) and from there I’ll decide if I keep it.
I was walking to a remote beach in Sardinia when preorders went up. I had 1 scrappy bar of 4g which *just* worked.
Ordered the following machine, but slightly regretting not going for 24GB and maybe 512GB drive. Also ordered midnight black rather than Space Grey. When I went back, dates were slipping to late August....
Ordered the following machine, but slightly regretting not going for 24GB and maybe 512GB drive. Also ordered midnight black rather than Space Grey. When I went back, dates were slipping to late August....
It’s Apple, you don’t need to claim DSR, you can just return anything, for any reason whatsoever in the first 14 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
You’re going from an M1 MBA to an M2 MBA?
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AKA the fingerprint collector?
I went for midnight as well, I hope I don't regret it but it looks so nice.
I went 8/8/16/512, I couldn't really see the point of spending £100 on 2 GPU cores for a general use machine.
At that spec and price, why not just get the 14 Pro?
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I am indeed. I went base model m1. I kept finding I was running out of ram so needed the 16gb model. As such I waited for m2 and went 16gb on 512gb with the 8/8 as I don’t want or need the GPU in this device.
If I had 16gb in the m1 air I’d have been happy and would have kept it. I don’t really need the 512gb either but the m2 pro reviews with the 256gb have me spooked.
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Same spec here.
Since weight matters a lot to me, I would buy a 12" m1/2 macbook for basically any money if they actually released one...
Yea... By mistake to be honest. I wanted the space grey for this reason
Fair. Would be nice if it was lighter but not a chance I could work on a smaller screen.
I guess for that £100 you're getting the additional GPU cores and the dual USB-C power plug so effectively you're not paying much more for it if you alredy want 512Gb storage.
I'll probably go 10-core personally it as the extra £100 on a ~£1500 laptop (16Gb/512Gb Education) isn't a massive difference. I'd agree it's questionable how much actual difference those extra 2 cores will make in real world use though.
That's a fair point. You might be right that if you don't need if then it's better saving the £70. Especially as there's the potential that having the extra GPU cores could actually have a negative impact on battery life. Plus it's not clear that on a fanless laptop you'll see the full performance benefit of them anyway as it'll likely start throttling after a few minutes at full GPU load. We'll have to wait for reviews to know if that will cause issues though.
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