Poll: *** The official 2024 and Late 2024 MacBook Air 13" and 15" thread (it has the M3 chip, WiFi 6E, 16Gb and everything!) ***

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Some people have been waiting for this..

You can order now for delivery on Friday.

Apple unveils the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its power-efficient performance and portability to a new level.

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MacBook Air 13-inch and MacBook Air 15-inch

MacBook Air 13- and 15-inch laptops, now with the superfast M3 chip, perfect for AI. Lightweight, with all-day battery life and Liquid Retina display.

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One major benefit from the M3 Air being launched. Nice price drop on the M2 Air to £900 so my wife, who has been eying up an Air for a while now, is very happy with the saving.

That’s a good point. I’d still pay the extra £200 to take it to 16Gb but it’s a cracking price for the M2 MBA.

 

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Mine is space grey which is what I normally get but I was actually considering silver this time. It was just that the space grey was the one they happened to have in stock in the model I wanted (16Gb/1Tb)

 

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Looks good.

You're going to be frustrated to start, your brain will want to do things the Windows way. Don't try and think to yourself that 'this is how I'd do it in Windows so I want macOS to do it the same way'. Learn the differences, embrace them.

 

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The default way scrolling works on the trackpad is weird as hell. Had to change it because I just couldn't cope with natural scroll.

If you think about how it works then it makes sense.

Imagine a piece of paper that’s covered by another piece of paper with a window in it. That window is your display.

With a mouse scroll wheel, you’re moving the window up and down to view sections of what’s below. With a trackpad, you’re moving the actual piece of paper underneath up and down.

I use a trackpad in natural mode on my Mac’s and a mouse the other way round on my work PC which is windows. I do urge you to get used to the default scroll method on the trackpad.

 

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Very nice, that's a good upgrade and it'll be very noticeable.

- The WiFi seems oddly slow thus far; it took absolutely *ages* to sign in to iCloud as part of the set-up, and most of the syncing stuff is still going. I don't have any problems with other devices on this network which happily stream 4K video etc. so I'm not sure what's going on there.

This is probably just the initial setup that's taking time as it all synchronises. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

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The only oddity is that my iCloud Messages don't appear to be syncing for some reason.

I don't think it's enabled by default - Go into the settings within Messages itself.

 

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Silent upgrade today for both M2 and M3 airs. Not sure if it was mentioned in other threads, but they now come with 16gb as standard, for the same price!

Nice, very nice.

 

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More than nice imo!! tbh Deserving of it's own thread, but i'm too lazy.

Meh, title (and poll) update