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I got this picture in an email from Apple today:

But what is this, you may ask?

Let me tell you:

This is the latest M2 MacBook Air.
With an 8 cores CPU and an 8 cores GPU (10 in a pricier model), a basic 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB SSD, both expandable — for a price.

See how thin it is?
Not intrigued about how it could possibly be this thin?

Do you do a lot of traveling with someone else driving? For example: by bus or train and, in particular, by flying these days? Or does Jeeves takes care of the steering wheel?
Or you just love 13″ (along the diagonals) screens?

See how many ports it has in the side shown in the picture?
It has one charging port and two USB 4 on the other.
With no card slot.
But is comes in 4 shades of grey: from off white to black!

Are you salivating already with the overwhelming desire to own one?
Then go ahead: first get an Apple (credit) Card and buy this Mac with it (*) for only US$1999! (or US$99.91 per month!)

As for myself, I pass.

(*) Without using an Apple Card? It does not say.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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for only US$1999!

US$1199. The best ever MacBook.

https://www.engadget.com/macbook-air-m2-review-2022-130040098.html

Ordering now you will have to wait 2-3 months.

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As usual, the (paid?) fanboys (as brought to our attention by Alex) are out in force … Not denying that a MacBook Air has its uses for some people, but their hype is both amusing and entirely to be expected.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
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FWIW, I’d much rather have the MacBook Pro you describe in your signature over any version of MacBook Apple produces today.

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Don’t underestimate M1/M2 by any means. I picked up a new MacBook Pro 16″ earlier this year, and the M1 chip really is excellent – incredibly snappy and doesn’t need the fans at all most of the time, and fast, quiet and cool under load. Being able to go 15 hours or so on the quickly charged battery is excellent too. I’m not an Apple fanboy – I use both Windows and Mac – the new hardware is just objectively really good.

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2022 M2 MacBook Air: Everything You Want to Know!

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Back in 2007 something like this would have been called a Hinged Tablet with Keyboard.  Things like this (not necessarily Apple) are all you see in the store these daze.  Not at that price though.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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I wonder what further reductions in functionality they’ll perpetrate at Apple in their eventually forthcoming M2 Macs. The “Air” ones are usually the first models to be released, testing the waters, as it were. Being so thin, it seems clear to me that everything inside is glued to the motherboard, even things one can’t imagine that could be glued there.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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OscarCP wrote:

Being so thin, it seems clear to me that everything inside is glued to the motherboard, even things one can’t imagine that could be glued there.

M2 MacBook Air Teardown

The MacBook Air is slim as it doesn’t have/need fans.

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It looks like the battery is not glued to the motherboard. The video and other information I have found looking on the Web are not really clear about the keyboard being either screwed on to some inner support, or glued to the top of the case, along with the track pad. They don’t seem to be screwed on.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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