March 18th, 2020 at 5:56 PM
I briefly owned the new Macbook air briefly after it came out last year. It got stolen, but it was probably the single best computer I ever owned, minus its shortcomings that were hard to ignore. I had to find a good sale on it. It was extremely expensive for what it was. It was a little underpowered for the price. It had a number of issues with the keyboard. It was otherwise extremely sturdy and well built (did not feel cheap), but internally and in terms of specifications, not worth $1200.
As it stands now, it looks like Apple is correcting a number of issues here. The keyboard is a scissor mechanism (finally!), the CPU is about "twice as fast" and has Ice lake processors in it. This is huge. It means more cores, better power efficiency, and d*** good graphics (likely the best we've seen yet in a low powered laptop), all with a small form factor.
If you're a student, you can supposedly get this one for $899. Oh, and the icing on the cake? They are packaging the base models with 256GB of storage.
Looks like Apple finally got some sense on their shoulders. I will be buying this at the very first opportunity. What are your thoughts on this?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/n...-just-999/
As it stands now, it looks like Apple is correcting a number of issues here. The keyboard is a scissor mechanism (finally!), the CPU is about "twice as fast" and has Ice lake processors in it. This is huge. It means more cores, better power efficiency, and d*** good graphics (likely the best we've seen yet in a low powered laptop), all with a small form factor.
If you're a student, you can supposedly get this one for $899. Oh, and the icing on the cake? They are packaging the base models with 256GB of storage.
Looks like Apple finally got some sense on their shoulders. I will be buying this at the very first opportunity. What are your thoughts on this?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/n...-just-999/
