timmillea

In what way could a 15" laptop possibly be a MacBook Air? The current 13" model is already a stretch. The MBA concept is a 'premium ultraportable'. A 15" fan-less design would simply be MacBook. The new 13" should be MacBook. A new MacBook Air would be as hated by Americans as the original - small, compromised and very expensive - but loved in the Far East. 

An incremental speed update, as expected, due to better 5nm results yielding a higher proportion of working cores per chip. 

It is a shame that as Apple's in-house chips incrementally improve, their industrial design incrementally worsens. 

leighr said:

I haven’t read anything about the new round “feet” that have appeared on all of the new M1, and now M2, MacBooks. I’m assuming it’s to allow for cooling/airflow underneath the laptop, but haven’t seen anything specifically said about this?

Yes, I wonder if those feet are included in the official measurements? 

I have the M1 MBA and use a laptop stand for heavy duty tasks (e.g Handbrake ripping of Blu-rays overnight) because, in my CB23 testing sustained over hours, the increased airflow/thermal release increases overall speed by 7.4% by itself and by 17.4% with the thermal pad too. I would bet that Apple have included thermal pads from the factory in all M2 MBAs and added those feet in order to improve the headline speed figures they quote. 

I think the new M2 MBA is a marginal improvement over the M1 MBA but at a price - almost 2000 USD/GBP for a moderately future-proof 16GB/1TB configured model. That is an awful lot for an entry-level laptop!

With only a 2.5% speed improvement over my thermal-padded M1 MBA on a stand, I can't see me upgrading this time around. Another 2 years to wait....

Regarding not cutting the price on the M1 MBA and the hike for the M2 MBA, inflation is currently running around 10% p.a.. Maintaining the current the cash price is essentially a 10% year-on-year price drop - more when you consider the M1 MBA was the same price almost two years ago. Apple tends to maintain price points and improve specs. It can't when inflation is raging and supply is severely constricted. 

tommytallboy said:

Now that Jony Ive has left, why does Apple still not give enough ports to the computers?

They actually want people to be in dongle hell. 

I love my dongle. 

DAalseth said:

I was surprised by the Macbook Pro being updated and by the Mac Mini not. 

It was. It is now the Mac Studio, bloated, overweight but apparently giving users what they want.