Laid my eyes on 15" MBA for the first time, anyone else would think it's a Pro machine

[Zest28]

It does -not- weigh like a MacBook Pro, it is only 3.3 pounds (much lighter than the Jony Ive 15).

I am drowning in Macs at the moment filling specialized niches where they work better than the MBA 15", but if a higher power stepped in and asked me to keep only one machine it's the one I would keep. It's the only machine that's just good enough along every important dimension, including portability.

The 15" MacBook Air weighs the same as the 14" MBP. Only 90 grams difference between them.

 

[lJoSquaredl]

in a weird way I think the new M3 MBP is gonna boost sales for the 15 Air

its thinner, more screen, no fan (even though the fan is quiet / rarely comes on supposedly), and cheaper

If you dislike dongles or watch movies in the dark, the 14" would start to shine with ease. Wires tilt me these days so Air makes it more difficult to not have at least one hub on my desk, and as a David Fincher fan it's just a different world of immersion when watching movies like his on my laptop...16" even more so. Other than that, 15" is pretty much a perfect machine outside of very heavy workloads, even regular video editing should be a breeze on it.

 

[Aggedor]

it felt very different to me. much prefer the pro keyboard.

They feel different to me as well, but I prefer the Air keyboard.

Huh, I'm going to have to check this out in an Apple Store!

 

[thadoggfather]

They feel different to me as well, but I prefer the Air keyboard.

can you describe it more than that? why do you prefer Air keyboard and how are they different?

Guess I never really compared them properly.

 

[chrono1081]

I have an M2 air and I adore it. It's far more powerful than ****** tech reviewers on Youtube would have you think (you know, the ones that think benchmarks actually matter).

I got mine and used Houdini, Blender, Final Cut, Motion, Logic, Unity, Affinity Suite, Xcode, and a lot more on it and did some gaming. No throttling, no "overheating", just great performance in a laptop that cost less than half of what I'm used to paying for laptops.

 

[LoopsOfFury]

can you describe it more than that? why do you prefer Air keyboard and how are they different?

Guess I never really compared them properly.

As I mentioned in a different thread (where someone else agreed with me), the MBA keyboard sounds/feels more solid and substantial (e.g., thud, thud, thud) while the MBP keyboard sounds/feels more cheap and loose (e.g., clickety-ckack-clack).

 

[david.h]

During the Intel era, the Air used to be inferior to the Pro, but it is no longer the case now. The Apple silicon Air is just a different machine than the Pro.