While Apple stayed silent on the MacBook Air during its subsequent event on 18 October as well, rumors suggest it could appear as soon as May of 2022. It's not all rainbows and unicorns, but not bad for a first effort.We’ve been anticipating some official news on the MacBook Air (2022) for a long time now, even expecting something back during the iPhone reveal event on September 14. I'll be publishing my medium-term M1 MacBook Air review soon. And the resale value of older Macs only worse.Ĭomments welcome. The Apple Silicon story is only going to get better.
If you have an Intel MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and are thinking of trading up, you're likely to get more for your current 'Book by moving sooner rather than later.
What happens when your $20,000 Mac Pro gets beat by - and I'm guesstimating here - an $8,000 Mx Mac Pro? The serious used Mac carnage is still ahead. Taking off even more than the $250 cut that Costco, for one, is offering. There seems to be a large inventory of Intel based MacBooks and they have to clear them out before the end of 2021. The good news: the best deals on Intel 'Books are yet to come, assuming Apple offers retailers price protection. The industry hasn't seen this level of price/performance discontinuity since the jump from the Intel 8008 to the 8080. The days when Intel produced startling performance gains with every new generation of x86 processors are, sadly, decades behind us. In the meantime, most of those specialized apps are being recompiled to be M1 native over the next year. But those corner cases don't reflect average users needs.
To be fair, not everyone is impressed, often because the software critical to their workflow isn't optimized for the new M1 processor. Search on "M1 MacBook Pro vs 16 MacBook Pro" on YouTube to see multiple videos testing real world workloads on both machines. Not only is the 13" MacBook Pro faster on the Geekbench 5 single and multiprocessor benchmarks than the top-of-the-line 16" MacBook Pro Intel I9, it less than half the price.Īnd it isn't just a single benchmark.
The contrast is even more striking when comparing MacBook Pros. And most users won't need to spend the extra cash for the 16GB version since the memory management and page swapping is so efficient. The bottom-of-the-line M1 MacBook Air has a Geekbench 5 multiprocessor score that is almost 2.5x that of the early 2020, top-of-the-line quad-core I7. Unless buyers check out a site like Everymac they won't know what they're missing.
Buying a used Mac laptop: How to avoid scams and find the best deals.almost new MacBook Airs for $600 rather than the $800-$900 that some think their Intel-based machine is still worth.īut most seem to be hoping that good news travels slow. Some of those are showing context sensitive pricing, i.e. There are more late-model Intel MacBooks showing up for sale. I've seen an unusual bifurcation in the pricing for MacBooks. I check Craigslist fairly regularly to keep track of what's for sale. If you spend hours daily banging away at a keyboard, you'll want to consider these favored models. Most ZDNet writers prefer this notebook above all others But the new M1 Macs have cratered MacBook resale values.
Where I live it’s not uncommon to see 10-, 12-, even 20-year-old Macs for sale. If you see inaccuracies in our content, please report the mistake via this form
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