MacBook Air 2015

[Finn Baingo]

Hey im looking for a cheap MacBook for coding, and i need your advice, i got a message for a 2015 MacBook Air with i5 8gb of ram and 128gb ssd, i simply don’t really care about the storage but im not sure if there is anything that should stop me from buying this Mac for 400 euros.
please send me your advice.

 

[nothingtoseehere]

This has been a great machine with the old good keyboard - important for typing. Also important are the maxed-out 8 GB RAM as you cannot upgrade it afterwards.
If you need a bigger SSD, or have to replace the battery, you can do this rather easily by yourself.
Therefore no objections!
I am not an expert in pricing of used Macs but the sum sounds reasonable to me. (As long as it works flawless.)

 

[EmmEff]

FWIW, I’m a professional developer working on enterprise software for Linux and occasionally use my same config 2015 MBA for this, both using VSCode locally and remote connection to Linux servers.

I do a lot more with my MBA than most on the forum will claim it’s capable of. Thumbs up from me.

 

[brianmowrey]

If you want lightweight and Big Sur support, the MBA is fine.

If you want 16GB, an ethernet port, and way more repairability, find a 2012 MBP.

Otherwise they both only support one external display, so practically the same machine.