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

[Cromulent]

I'm curious. Does the 15" model have better battery life?

 

[Reuben klang]

I'm curious. Does the 15" model have better battery life?

It has a larger battery and both have the same ‘up to’ running times.

 

[Cromulent]

It has a larger battery and both have the same ‘up to’ running times.

Thank you.

 

[Chris344]

I'm curious. Does the 15" model have better battery life?

It's about the same as the 13 due to the larger screen.

 

[Cromulent]

It's about the same as the 13 due to the larger screen.

That makes sense. Thank you.

 

[chrismscotland]

I've been looking at used M2 Air's but the used prices are little different to just buying a brand new one at the moment! Half tempted just to splurge the extra for an M3

 

[Fire Wizard]

You have to be quick because these offers don't tend to be around for long and I am not even sure if they get fulfilled but Amazon are currently listing the 15" M3 MacBook Air 16GB model with 512GB SSD for £1499 in select colours.

Edit. Stupid me. It's the 13" model.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

I have had my M3 Air for a couple of weeks now after sending back another M1 due to eye strain. So far for me I have had no eye strain or headaches using the M3 Air. Just hope it lasts for years as I doubt anything going forward will be PWM free..

 

[rp2000]

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!


rp2000

 

[Feek]

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.

 

[Raymond Lin]

New Base MBA now has 16G of RAM !!!! Finally!

 

[rp2000]

Nice, very nice.

More than nice imo!! tbh Deserving of it's own thread, but i'm too lazy. Unless i'm mistaken you can no longer buy Macs with 8gb!

Edit: I guess this means Apple Intelligence performance will be better with more RAM and those with an 8gb machine will probably not get as much out of the AI. For those who don;t care about AI (like me) it's just a free £200 upgrade.


rp2000

 

[Feek]

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

Meh, title (and poll) update

 

[rp2000]

Meh, title (and poll) update

The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM

More RAM is better.

www.theverge.com

And credit where it's due!


rp2000

 

[b0rn2sk8]

I’m not sure they deserve any credit for this change. The £200 charge for 16gb RAM was offensive.

Edit: it’s still £200 to go from 256gb to 512gb of storage. That’s still offensive.

 

[explicit4u]

Less 'nice' and more looooong overdue, shame they couldn't give the 256GB base the same bump but I'll take it. Finally have a worthwhile upgrade on my 2013 MBP.

Not going to go down well with existing 8GB MBA owners.

 

[malachi]

M4 MBP, M4 Mac Mini....whats left? M4 Macbook Air.....Hopefully gets announced soon

 

[Cromulent]

Has anyone gone from a 13" MBA to a 15" MBA? If so how is writing notes on one side of the screen and a PDF document on the other side?

 

[MrRockliffe]

Has anyone gone from a 13" MBA to a 15" MBA? If so how is writing notes on one side of the screen and a PDF document on the other side?

I’ve actually just bought both to try out the sizes. I could do a comparison for you if you’d like?

 

[Cromulent]

I’ve actually just bought both to try out the sizes. I could do a comparison for you if you’d like?

I'm just curios if the PDF is easy to read on half the screen or whether you need to manually zoom in.