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Apple Launches Redesigned MacBook Air With M2 Chip and MagSafe
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The 2022 MacBook Air features a larger 13.6-inch display with smaller bezels surrounding it. Apple says it has 500 nits of peak brightness. It features a silent, fan-less design, which is impressive given the performance gains that Apple is claiming to squeeze from the M2. Apple says that it's 40-percent faster than the previous model, but that performance boost likely varies depending on the app.
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M2, not to be confused with M.2??? Geez guys. Redo your marketing.
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What's your objection? In what scenario do you think somebody ends up with the wrong thing? Is somebody going to go in for a new Mac, get home and wonder why they have a hard drive in the bag instead?
Those who know what M.2 is are unlikely to find it problematic. Those who don't... well, for them it doesn't matter.
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Not to be confused with MI2, UK war office intelligence focused on geographic regions.
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If you are in the UK the more relevant example would be the M2 motorway in Kent. Although, unless you are talking about queues it's not likely that you'd confuse the two.
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Xorg has DRM which is not the same as the other DRM that prevents you from streaming video. People not young enough to have used a KVM now calling the hypervisor module KVM.
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Let's also not forget the constant confusion of VPN (a system used to access an Office Intranet) with VPN (a system that proxies the network traffic going to and from the Internet to hide your IP address) where the two even use the same words to make up the initials (Virtual Private Network in both cases, despite the name being wholly inappropriate for the "hide your IP address" thing.)
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Wait until they get to the M5. . .
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The M2 seems to max out at 24GB of shared memory.
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Max ram goes from 16GB to 24GB does not look good for the mac pro M2. As even say 512GB MAX (x2 the Mac Studio ) is pro for an server or an pro workstation.
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For the macbook air, 24GB is fine.
There will be an M2 pro released a few months later which supports more.-
Problem is that the RAM is soldered onto the CPU substrate, and it's shared with the GPU.
No upgrades. Performance degrades with GPU usage. No ECC option.
Hard to see how they could fit 512GB on there.
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Memory bandwidth on the M1 is already pretty impressive for a cpu with integrated gpu, it's likely that the M2 will also bring improvements to memory bandwidth.
It may not be as fast as a high end dedicated gpu, but it's very fast for an integrated.-
It has to be. ARM CPUs have low code density, so they need massive caches and high performance memory. And that's just to come up to the same speed as mid range mobile city chips.
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M2 Pro, followed by M2 Max, followed by M2 Ultra. And possibly another chip for Mac Pro machines. Currently all variations come with âoesmallâ (8, 16, 32 or 64GB) and âoelargeâ RAM (double size), they might now also come with triple size RAM (24, 48, 96, or 192GB).
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Would anyone even realize if it started swapping to the ssd?
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when it starts to ware out
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Speaking of which, does the Apple controller support OPAL drive encryption?
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Never heard of âoeOPALâ. The macs all do 256 bit encryption at 7.3 gigabyte per second.
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The drive controller does the encryption. No CPU load, no loss of performance.
Even with good raw encryption speed there is a big performance loss with software encryption.
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Meaningless at the moment.
Apple is already offering the M2 model on its website.
Two models, both with 8GB RAM and 256GB/512GB SSD.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy... [apple.com]Maybe higher-end models will come with more RAM.
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Does it support multiple monitors?
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Display Support
Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:
One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz
Thunderbolt 3 digital video output
Native DisplayPort output over USBC VGA, HDMI, DVI, and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold separately)
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When the Apple Silicon transition is complete, I hope that finalizes the Great Boomer Purge.
Craig Federighi is an embarrassment. Who approved those lame action transitions? Cook?As long as I'm complaining, did they all but forget that this is the developer conference?
It was a nauseating presentation of feature additions, each with a little tag at the end saying that
there will be "an API" that will let devs maybe tag along as a feature insert to Apple's apps
(later this year).Two minutes on Metal3, but what ever happened to SceneKit/GameKit/RealityKit?
It looks like they've deferred to large studios with their own engines, with an assumed nod towards Unity and Unreal.
If or when Apple comes out with the AR/VR product, they have shown
that you can't trust committing to any of their frameworks. A waste of time.Same goes with the never completed SwiftUI. WWDC keynote with no mention of Xcode?
Looks like within five years, Apple will just drop the developer's program and bring it all in house.balls.
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Is he? Still?
That explains much.
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Thunderbolt forever!
Magsafe proprietary charging.
Retro square corners!
(Kind of heavy for a 13.6" notebook...)
Fanless! (Aren't most notebooks fanless? I haven't had a fan in a notebook for 10-15 years.)-
lol, love it!
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Not quite so odd. Basically every new Intel computer has them. They're also USB C compatible. Yes, if you have a USB A device you'll have to adapt it. But, it's still a common port now.
Sure, it's proprietary. But, they also support USB C power delivery.
They weigh about average for the size category.
In fact, it's quite the opposite.
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Does it run OpenBSD ? Usually I would say Linux, but Linux is now in bed with our Corporate Overlords and pretty much allows locked down blobs these days.
I already know the answer, but that question is the one I ask if I need to get new hardware. Why ? If OpenBSD works on it, I believe just about any "Free" OS will work fine without gigs of blobs. Yes, OpenBSD has blobs, but they are not locked down like say Nvidia.
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The fact that you lumped all of Linux into one category speaks volumes for your opinion.
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You don't have to use any blobs you don't like.
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Yes, OpenBSD has blobs, but they are not locked down like say Nvidia.
What does this even mean?
Is there an NVIDIA driver for OpenBSD that does not have a corresponding Linux implementation?
Are you referring to the fact that OpenBSD simply eschews support for recent Nvidia cards, as if Linux is somehow forcing you to use a Nvidia blob by simply allowing the option?
What is a blob that is not "locked down like say Nvidia?"
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I don't really get why anyone would buy one of these. I find it even more surprising how many people work in IT and love them.
Apple hardware is restrictive and controlling, and vastly overpriced. Some people bring up quality, but the Dell and Asus laptops I've owner were always perfectly fine and took a ton of beatings.
You can get something thinner, more durable, more compatible, with more freedom and likely more powerful for much less than the price of a MacBook.
So why?
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I have used PCs and Macs in my company both for a long time and Macs have far fewer issues on average and productivity is higher. We haven't seen a single user moving from Mac to PC and overall cost of Mac is actually lower than PC. PCs are good for things: 1) low end, cheaper than any Mac 2) Heavy and bulky ones providing better performance than any Mac at gaming. In between, I see Mac as a winner by a small margin.
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So this is just anecdotal and likely a result of confirmation bias.
I doubt you have many people moving from PC to Mac either, and if you do it's a minority.
Maybe you run or manage a small shop, that's fine. Not really useful as experience though.
As for being sturdy, reliability depends on the manufacturer. Compare say Dell to Apple vs every single PC to Apple and Apple isn't, if at all superior in that context.
Most importantly, you dismiss that many PCs are cheaper, lighter and more powerful than equivalent
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You just made up a bunch of unsubstantiated facts and accused the previous poster of confirmation bias for giving you his own opinion?
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Once you do a reality check, things look different.
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Mmm, a mac advocating accusing someone else of needing to check their reality, that's funny.
Especially since the term reality distortion field was coined in computing to refer to the bs Apple managed to sell people on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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I've been using Linux since the late 90s. It's amazing, and it's been my bread and butter my entire career. That said, I also really like Apple's stuff for some really pragmatic reasons.
* Macs are the closest "mainstream" thing to Linux. For the first half of my career, I wrote most of my Linux-targeted code in Windows because my companies wouldn't even consider anything else for corporate desktops. Talk about frustrating!! Over time, they became convinced (begrudgingly at first) to allow Macs, which at lea
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I get using macs as a unix os that is commercially supported, there are many contexts where that makes sense.
Disagree about the things you say it does better though, i.e. office tasks or zoom. Such tasks are *very* basic and I don't see how one platform can do them better than the other. I've done those tasks on every platform and they are all about equal, so it sounds like fluff to say mac does them better unless you care to be specific?
Plenty of PC hardware lasts forever as well, so that isn't anything sp
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I find it even more surprising how many people work in IT and love them.
Well, maybe there's something they know that you don't. I'm in IT and find Macs ever more pleasurable to work on than Windows laptops. Give them a try.-
I've work in IT as well, longer than most who love macs, and I've used plenty so I doubt I'm lacking some arcane knowledge that would change my opinion.
It's just a preference, likely due to advertising and peer pressure, nothing more.
I'll take a dualboot Windows/Linux PC any day of the week.
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I use both windows and mac since around 1990. And a period of linux experimenting before osx came along.
Prefer using the mac most of that period except when windows 95 came out which felt more advanced back then. Currently I especially like how nice mac integrates with my iphone ipad and apple tv, no setup needed - notes, photos, passwords etc, with decent trust in privacy. They are statistically durable. So is my lenovo but itâ(TM)s fugly. Nothing wrong with paying more for something that is pretty i
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Do. Not. Want.
Find a way to make my iphone turn into a touchbar/pad if thatâ(TM)s something youâ(TM)re so nuts about. Leave the function keys alone!
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$200 for 8GB ram and $200 for 512GB storage!
Nice markup there apple!
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