Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eropple on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:33PM (#39596422)

I'm not sure those people are the intended Macbook audience, though. How many of those people wouldn't be roughly as productive using an iPad or something? I've found myself doing almost all my non-development, non-media stuff on an iPad Air as of late and the environmental constraints have been really helpful for focus.

(My iPad Air was $599 new, and I use a shockingly pleasant $30 case-and-keyboard combination for typing--no, it's not a mechanical keyboard, but c'mon.)

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by windowsrookie on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:58PM (#39597731)

I have tried several different iPads over the years and I have never found them to be useful in any way. A laptop is superior in every situation for me.

Also the M1 MacBook Air was on sale many times for $700. That's less than $100 more than your iPad Air + keyboard.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eropple on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:11AM (#39616113)

Macs are better for me for a lot of things, too, sure. When I'm not doing computer-toucher things, though, I find it isn't materially different. And a lot of people want the affordances without the need to do those kinds of things.

Apple's presentation has mostly been the Mac is a work truck, and most people have light-duty needs.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by lupire on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:05PM (#39596778)

iPad has a tiny screen and a tiny keyboard. It's not a laptop.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eropple on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:28PM (#39597004)

As far as screen size goes, my iPad is about the same size as my 11" Air was, though not widescreen. And the keyboard's small, but Apple has prior art there too and you can get a bigger iPad if you really want to (though, sure, it costs more).

It's not a laptop, no--but that's also not inherently a bad thing. If you need what a laptop can do, sure. I have a 32GB M1 Max for a reason. But more and more it seems obvious to me that the median computer user doesn't need that, and the affordances from overlap with their more accustomed part of the ecosystem (their phone) are strong and pretty valuable.

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