You're right it wouldn't hurt Apple. In a way I get what they are doing but at the same time if they bumped base to 16GB they could start charging for 32-48GB on the Air.... think of the prices for that lol
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Apple Announces New MacBook Air Models With M3 Chip
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They still have the iPhone 8 Plus on the iPhone refurb page too. I don't think they change those images very often.
But don't you know that Apple will pull out of the UK any day now? /s lol
Apple could do better and I wish they would but we're talking about a multi trillion $ company here. They are going to rip us all off as much as they can.
RAM and storage prices HAVE came down a lot but Apple won't pass it on yet. More profits for them.
Side note: I paid £390 for 64GB DDR5 RAM not even a year ago for my PC and today I can get better spec sticks for about £220. That's basically the same price Apple charge to go from 16 to 24GB on a MacBook. It sucks.
Maybe we should just stop all buying Macs? lol
I'm wondering if carrying the HDMI and SD channel is a constraint as to why Apple couldn't do the same as the M3 Air.
The real big meh with macs is that Apple still offers 256 as a base storage and 8 Gb of ram... big meh
Totally agree with you but 256GB is actually quite usable if you store everything online or on external drives. Well, there is the "issue" that 256GB drives seem to be slower on Macs but most people won't notice or care about that.
I could probably get by with 256GB because I store in the cloud/external drives. I went with 512GB to play it safe and because I know of the speed limitation.
8GB ram however is completely unacceptable for me. it's the absolute bare minimum for running any OS these days (except maybe linux lol).
16/512gb should be minimum but I'd at least like to see Apple raise RAM to 16GB even if they did keep 256GB.
If I could only keep 1 Apple product it would be the Mac. Having said that I think Windows devices are making good strides and I have to work with Windows regardless.
In a couple of years Intel might finally release a good M1 copy 😄
I’ll leave the Mac upgrade until we get the OLED pros.
Still using a 2017 27” iMac. Been looking to upgrade. May order this as a replacement.
Depends on how this is done.
a) the M3 is able to dynamically switch between displays, and all the MBP with M3 needs is a firmware update
b) the reason the Air can do it now is that it has three lanes going out, electrically switching between them depending on what’s connected
I’m guessing the latter, in which case they can’t retrofit the feature.
8GB and 256GB storage but I looked at the calendar and it's not 1976 anymore...
i'm not saying Mac is bad. my point was just ... we buy these products so apple will keep selling us them. windows is my main computer and always will be but i've been wanting a Mac again for a long time and i need something portable. I hate working on my iPhone and it seems I might as well get an Air over an iPad Pro (larger screen, more RAM, an OS that takes advantage of the hardware)
It sucks we still dont have OLEDs on Mac. I don't see OLED coming to Airs any time soon so I think by the time I want to replace this new M3 we'll finally have OLED Airs.
those specs suck but most people who buy an Air probably couldn't tell you how much RAM or storage they have because they don't care. They will go for the cheapest model and Apple know they can rip us off.
No iPads? Damn. I was waiting for new Air 2 years.
That'll be some upgrade!
My last Mac was an Air in 2012 (not sure exact model) but I returned it so only used it a week or so. I can't imagine if I had kept it and upgraded in 2024 lol.
Enjoy
Typically I woud agree, except it sucks for gaming.
We joke, but that literally is the only thing they would respond to
Surely M3 ipads will come soon. They might only update the Pros. Not sure when a new Air will come out.
I'm interested in new iPads but not for me. My wife needs a new iPad as this one is on its way out. Hope they come out soon!
Nobody buys a Mac if they are doing more than simple casual gaming. You'd be much better of buying a PS5 or Xbox Series X in addition to your Mac lol
I have my 16c/32t cpu, 64GB RAM, with RTX 4080 pc for gaming.
My pc will be for heavy work/gaming and my new m3 air will be for everything else when I'm not at my PC.
I was only half joking. My point was that Apple gets away with this because we buy their products. If we refused to buy anymore 8/256GB devices then they'd be real quick bumping the specs up.
Money talks but it works both ways.
8/256 may be fine for the minimum of a modern consumer laptop, but I will wait for the schadenfreude when those specs are too low to effectively use Apple's future client LLM.
I'm questioning my decision going with Space Grey over Midnight.
I think Midnight looks gorgeous in the photos but I heard it shows up fingerprints real bad?
The space grey looks great and I think I'll be very happy with it but I'm wondering how bad the fingerprints really are on Midnight?
I tried out the Air at my local apple store but they only had Space Grey and the normal silver models.
I think Midnight looks gorgeous in the photos but I heard it shows up fingerprints real bad?
The space grey looks great and I think I'll be very happy with it but I'm wondering how bad the fingerprints really are on Midnight?
I tried out the Air at my local apple store but they only had Space Grey and the normal silver models.
Same here, I love my Macally mechanical keyboard. Really with there was one with Touch ID!
I hadn't even thought about such a thing, but I agree with you that I could see it being a "thing" in the future.
(more RAM needed for LLM NeuralPro)