Typing on this on my M1 16/256. Love this little laptop, it is still working perfectly and runs fast enough for most of my regular work needs (Windows 11 VM, Excel, Word, Safari, Edge, Teams, Craft). No need for me to upgrade yet as it is also my secondary Mac.
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Apple Discontinues MacBook Air With M1 Chip
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One of the best-looking laptops ever, and an amazingly reliable device overall. I hope it gets support for a long time. 😔
Well, it was inevitable, as the last remaining M1-chip Mac on the market until today. But it was a great start for the Apple Silicon Macs, and my M1 MacBook Air is still going strong. I bought it almost three years ago as my first Apple Silicon Mac, configured with the 8-core graphics and 16 GB of RAM, and was blown away by how speedy and powerful it is, yet using less energy. So now we have seven more years until Apple declares them obsolete, but by that point I may already have bought a new MacBook Air, maybe a 15" one (later this year I want to buy an M2/M3 Pro-equipped Mac Mini desktop).
Hmmmm....gonna be some M1 bargains out there now. My plan had been to get an M3 once it was released, then give my 13" M2 to my daughter for college since she has modest computing needs and it will fulfill them with ease. But now I'm thinking I might keep the M2 and get her a cheaper M1. Decisions...
Love my M1 MBA, favorite Apple computer ever. There will come a time I will replace it with a new MacBook but the jury's still out which one it will be. For now, it still runs amazingly and does what I need it to do so no need to ditch it just yet!
Still have this one with M1 chip and wedge design and I love it. The wedge design is WAY nicer and sleeker than the current models, feels great in the hands and to look at. The flat, boring, boxy shape of the new ones is a bafflingly retrograde design choice. I'll be keeping mine for years to come so knowing Apple the wedge design will probably return in a few years.
The most beautiful and iconic MacBook Air ever made, still using it and still loving the wedge design and aluminium feeling (which is really different from new MacBook Air M2).
Travelled for 4 night on a new year trip and I didn’t have to bring iPad along for the first time. Using my space grey MBA 8/256 for works when I have time for 4 days without charger because I didn’t bring it is something I wouldn’t think possible before.
Such a great machine.
Such a great machine.
Incorrect, the obsolete vintage declarations are five and seven years after discontinuation, not after introduction.
so 2029 and 2031 respectively.
It’s been $250 off at most third-party retailers for a year now.
Traded my late-2016 13" MBP (fn keys) in for an M1 MBA just last month. Got it for $450 after a $300 trade-in value, so I'm sad to see this one go, but I have no regrets, because my M1 MBA is amazing!
I had the last Intel Air (i5) at the same time my wife had just gotten one of these M1 Airs. They had the exact same chassis and display, but holy crap, what a difference. Here was a seemingly identical MacBook with triple the battery life that felt twice as fast.
Out of curiousity, I did a little side by side test with both of them running one of those Apple Maps fly-over 3D city tour things. They're fairly demanding graphically. The whole time, my Intel Air was skipping frames, fan blasting, and according to coconutBattery pulling a full 15+ watts off the battery (which would yield like 90 minutes run time if you kept that up). Hers was silky smooth, silent (of course) and pulling a grand total of maybe 5 watts off the battery.
Out of curiousity, I did a little side by side test with both of them running one of those Apple Maps fly-over 3D city tour things. They're fairly demanding graphically. The whole time, my Intel Air was skipping frames, fan blasting, and according to coconutBattery pulling a full 15+ watts off the battery (which would yield like 90 minutes run time if you kept that up). Hers was silky smooth, silent (of course) and pulling a grand total of maybe 5 watts off the battery.
Likely ends by 2030.
Intel Macs historically had ~10 years support.
Would not be surprised that th 2020 MBA 13" M1 gets a good decade until the final Security Update.
By which time move to a 2030 MBA 13" M10.
I got mine a couple of years ago. Trading in an old iPad Pro (2018 12.9” model) and an old iPhone I was not using anymore, I happened to score one of these for $50. Best 50 bucks I ever spent. Still love mine to this day.
They really should keep that design around and rename it to just MacBook as the entry level model. It's an amazing design, just add MagSafe and its perfect (ok maybe a glowing apple too!)
on iPad we have iPad , iPad Air, iPad Pro . On Mac we should have MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro.
on iPad we have iPad , iPad Air, iPad Pro . On Mac we should have MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro.
I think this is hands down the best modern Apple laptop for quality, performance and price. Simply a fantastic machine.
I think that will be several years into the future yet. I remember my Apple Watch S5 Ceramic being told they would not be supplying parts for it soon and I purchased that over 6 year ago from memory...
Imma wait to see how the M3 goes since M2 doesn’t offer much more than M1. Unless M3 can do some earth shattering things, I would just hold on to my MacBook Pro M1. Yup. The one with dreaded Touch Bar.
M1 is great but for me it has become less great in 2024. I’d upgrade but I have no means to buy new one in instalment. 1TB storage proven to be utterly insufficient. 16GB of RAM also, crazy considering I don’t do heavy work on my MacBook.
M1 is great but for me it has become less great in 2024. I’d upgrade but I have no means to buy new one in instalment. 1TB storage proven to be utterly insufficient. 16GB of RAM also, crazy considering I don’t do heavy work on my MacBook.
The most optimistic guess would be Apple follow the same trend as iPhone discontinuation, but with a bit bigger gap in between.
Best Laptop I've ever bought and still going strong from day one
Really struggle to find a reason to upgrade; although one day I'll want 24/32gb of memory. The 1990s throwback design of the M2/3 helps my wallet too
Really struggle to find a reason to upgrade; although one day I'll want 24/32gb of memory. The 1990s throwback design of the M2/3 helps my wallet too
I sure hope so -- I think this is the first Apple Silicon product we've seen get the "discontinued" badge -- and it's not even been out for 4 years yet. 😬