I really hope the new Airs have 16GB when they come out (in 2025?). 8GB really is a joke, and £200 for an extra 8GB (for 16 total) is also a joke. My M1 still feels great so I’m happy to hold off until the base model gets the ram bump, but if the M4 ones get 16GB I’ll be quite tempted
256GB storage is also sort of a joke, and I just can’t bring myself to pay £200 for an extra 256GB (512 total). I know it’s very good quality nand but still, the upgrade pricing is eye-watering. So I rely quite heavily on my NAS and use the SSD as basically just a small cache.
I paid £190 for a 16TB hard drive in my NAS. hdds are still a bit cheaper than ssds, and that was a particularly good price, but even so, comparing that to apple’s £200 for an extra 256GB is just insane.
I totally don’t need this, and I guess my big, loud, hot, noisy, annoying desktop is finally stable so I don’t reeeeallllly have any justification there but somehow I still preordered.
…and got the trackpad.
Be nice to be free of both Windows and Linux on the desktop - sorry guys: <3 Linux-the-Server but not Linux-the-Desktop, even after 25 years of trying to.
I’m tempted by this too (or maybe the upcoming MacBook Air). I’m just worried that I’m not going to like MacOS. I’m pretty happy with Linux, like FOSS, but Apple just has the best hardware at the moment.
Been an OS X user since, well, the preview release.
It really scratches the need-a-unixish-userspace and wants-a-gui-that-makes-some-damn-sense itches really well.
It’s hardly perfect, but it’s a case where 95% of things work 95% of the time, leaving me to do what I meant to do, and not figure out what stupid thing is broken and what I’m supposed to do to un-broken it.
Modern desktop Linux, especially if you ditch Gnome and go with KDE, is shockingly close, until you run into something that just plain is missing. I can’t say I’ve had an experience like that with OS X so it’s staying on the desktop until I do and/or linux makes me an offer I can’t refuse.
I will say if you’re into “tweaking” shit and customizing everything and enjoy fiddling with the OS endlessly for the sake of fiddling you’re probably not going to like OS X. It’s more of a ‘set your settings, and then don’t touch anything’ kind of experience.
Is there a reason why the two USBC I/O ports on the front aren’t ThunderBolt capable?
Having a couple of I/O ports nice and accessible at the front is awesome, but why limit them to 10gb/s when TB3 will do 20Gbps, TB4 will do 40Gbps and TB5 will do 80Gbps. I imagine there will be many people out there that will inadvertently use the front ports thinking they’re the same speed
$200 base price increase, ouch.
Edit: apparently it starts at $599, but for some reason Apple is showing me $799 for the base model.
$200 base price
Oh!
$200 base price increase
…oh.
