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I’m using a Macbook Air from like 2011 and it has basically the same specs as their current lineup in terms of memory etc. So why would I pay £2000 for the curr

• piyh 4y ago
  It has the same memory capacity, and maybe number of keys on the keyboard, but I feel like your "etc" is doing too much heavy lifting to try to make those comparable.
• dougmwne 4y ago
  In a very rough sense, looking at Geekbench, the M2 MacBook Air has 5x the single core performance and 10x the multi core performance. Granted, if your workload is typing things into Vim, using the terminal and reading Hacker News, you might not notice. I suspect if you try to load CNN and its 100 ad trackers, you would most certainly notice. A little off topic, but also illustrative: I found an old 3tb external NAS from 2011. I thought I would copy my backups onto it just to have some redundancy. I realized that the file 5MB/s transfer was going to take literally 7 days. I decided to hop on Amazon and get a 1000MB/s external SSD that could do the job in an hour. Tech really has changed a lot in the past decade+.