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Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned Would love a 16GB model. For the last 4 years of me saying that, everyone and their brother, and the Apple reps all s

Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned Would love a 16GB model. For the last 4 years of me saying that, everyone and their brother, and the Apple reps all say "oh you can configure that on the site", because they have have access to the parallel darknet version of the Apple site where Macbook airs ship with 16gb RAM I really like the air, but I can like the Macbook Pro its not really a big deal. JUST WISH THEY WOULD YA KNOW

zyxley 10y ago
> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.
- wyager 10y ago
  Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.
  - snovv_crash 10y ago
    To avoid dongle hell.
    - WiseWeasel 10y ago
      One man's dongle hell is another's unplug-one-thing-and-go heaven.
      - swift 10y ago
        i'd be on board with two ports, i think, but one is a hard sell. i regularly want to plug things into my laptop while charging it. it's a shame, because they've almost sold me on the thing.
      - majewsky 10y ago
        A second port wouldn't break your usecase.
        WiseWeasel 10y ago
        I've noticed that having no choice in the matter makes it significantly more likely to be the case. After making the switch, I do feel that my experience is nicer for it. Expansion lives on the outside, tailored to the environment in which it resides, and the battery lasts long enough that I can spend most of my day without the power adapter connected.
  - visarga 10y ago
    Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports. I wanted the 11'' MBA with retina and an updated CPU, not a bastardized laptop. I want to feel keys pressing.
    - hrrsn 10y ago
      >Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports. All valid points, bar the trackpad. The force touch trackpad is a pleasure to use and I much prefer it to previous Apple trackpads (which are still excellent).
    - camhenlin 10y ago
      Disagree, I use one of these machines on a daily basis (as well as one of the newer bluetooth keyboards with the same keys), and they are fantastic keyboards once you get used to them. The trackpad is fantastic as well
  - thirdsun 10y ago
    Cheaper? Not at all. While I agree that the MacBook 12" is the new Air and the better purchase, it's rather expensive and currently the sole purpose of the original MacBook Air is covering the price range around 1000 €. Until the MacBook gets there.
  - csydas 10y ago
    Right now the display port and the two USB ports for the Air feel just about right for me, and it seems like the ideal "minimalist" laptop. Performance wise I hear that both are comparable and you'll get similar battery life on both, but for me the Macbook_Raw barely crosses the line of "too minimalist". Though honestly, even a second USBC port would probably change my mind on it. I also really like the feel of the 13" screen - it seems just right, but I suppose I could get used to the 12". Also don't really wanna go back to a Bluetooth Mouse again, but this is ultimately a minor quibble that I could get over pretty easily.
  - zeckalpha 10y ago
    Battery.
  - intoverflow2 10y ago
    Because the Macbook runs slower the more you throw at it
enraged_camel 10y ago
>>Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned That's because it is. What's interesting however is that my 2011 Macbook Air still works like a champ. It has a 1.7 Ghz Intel i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD. And, amazingly enough, the battery still lasts for 3-4 hours, even after five years of heavy usage. Macbook Pro is too heavy for me, and I don't like the lack of ports in the newer "Macbook" line, so I've held out. At this point the only thing I wish I had was a retina display, honestly.
- cloudjacker 10y ago
  I have the 2012 Macbook Air 8gb RAM and 512 GB SSD Still perfect for me, I do casual video editing and some compositing in 1080p and rendering time is still great, I compile large programming projects and it is comparable to all the spiffy new macbook pros companies want to set me up with I did replace the battery for around $100 It has all the right ports at the right speeds, multiple usb 3.0, sdxc card slot with sdxc speeds, thunderbolt at thunderbolt speeds The user experience still beats out all the sub $1000 laptops because the target audience accepts a lot of compromises and their budget is $400 (okay, I haven't looked at the market, just see what I see. a lot of people switched to tablets) So I just wish they'd release the 1 TB version with 16gb RAM The macbook air 2012 is the machine I always wanted to exist for half a decade, and it is still great. Not the model before, or the model before that.

zyxley 10y ago

> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.

wyager 10y ago
Lighter, better screen, cheaper. I'm not sure why you'd buy an Air these days.
- snovv_crash 10y ago
  To avoid dongle hell.
  - WiseWeasel 10y ago
    One man's dongle hell is another's unplug-one-thing-and-go heaven.
    - swift 10y ago
      i'd be on board with two ports, i think, but one is a hard sell. i regularly want to plug things into my laptop while charging it. it's a shame, because they've almost sold me on the thing.
    - majewsky 10y ago
      A second port wouldn't break your usecase.
      - WiseWeasel 10y ago
        I've noticed that having no choice in the matter makes it significantly more likely to be the case. After making the switch, I do feel that my experience is nicer for it. Expansion lives on the outside, tailored to the environment in which it resides, and the battery lasts long enough that I can spend most of my day without the power adapter connected.
- visarga 10y ago
  Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports. I wanted the 11'' MBA with retina and an updated CPU, not a bastardized laptop. I want to feel keys pressing.
  - hrrsn 10y ago
    >Keyboard doesn't feel like a keyboard, trackpad is fake, speed is that of a tablet, and has almost no ports. All valid points, bar the trackpad. The force touch trackpad is a pleasure to use and I much prefer it to previous Apple trackpads (which are still excellent).
  - camhenlin 10y ago
    Disagree, I use one of these machines on a daily basis (as well as one of the newer bluetooth keyboards with the same keys), and they are fantastic keyboards once you get used to them. The trackpad is fantastic as well
- thirdsun 10y ago
  Cheaper? Not at all. While I agree that the MacBook 12" is the new Air and the better purchase, it's rather expensive and currently the sole purpose of the original MacBook Air is covering the price range around 1000 €. Until the MacBook gets there.
- csydas 10y ago
  Right now the display port and the two USB ports for the Air feel just about right for me, and it seems like the ideal "minimalist" laptop. Performance wise I hear that both are comparable and you'll get similar battery life on both, but for me the Macbook_Raw barely crosses the line of "too minimalist". Though honestly, even a second USBC port would probably change my mind on it. I also really like the feel of the 13" screen - it seems just right, but I suppose I could get used to the 12". Also don't really wanna go back to a Bluetooth Mouse again, but this is ultimately a minor quibble that I could get over pretty easily.
- zeckalpha 10y ago
  Battery.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  Because the Macbook runs slower the more you throw at it

enraged_camel 10y ago

>>Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned That's because it is. What's interesting however is that my 2011 Macbook Air still works like a champ. It has a 1.7 Ghz Intel i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD. And, amazingly enough, the battery still lasts for 3-4 hours, even after five years of heavy usage. Macbook Pro is too heavy for me, and I don't like the lack of ports in the newer "Macbook" line, so I've held out. At this point the only thing I wish I had was a retina display, honestly.

cloudjacker 10y ago
I have the 2012 Macbook Air 8gb RAM and 512 GB SSD Still perfect for me, I do casual video editing and some compositing in 1080p and rendering time is still great, I compile large programming projects and it is comparable to all the spiffy new macbook pros companies want to set me up with I did replace the battery for around $100 It has all the right ports at the right speeds, multiple usb 3.0, sdxc card slot with sdxc speeds, thunderbolt at thunderbolt speeds The user experience still beats out all the sub $1000 laptops because the target audience accepts a lot of compromises and their budget is $400 (okay, I haven't looked at the market, just see what I see. a lot of people switched to tablets) So I just wish they'd release the 1 TB version with 16gb RAM The macbook air 2012 is the machine I always wanted to exist for half a decade, and it is still great. Not the model before, or the model before that.