Here's the Thing about the M3 Macbook Air...

This is the company that sold a monitor stand for $1000

@@RadioNuldon't forget the wheels for like $700 lol

Its like when you want to buy a porsche. If you put everything into it, its waaaaay more expensive

@@istvan368 Except this isn't a Porsche, it's a midrange laptop. For $999 you can get a PC laptop with a vastly superior OLED screen and a usable 16/512 of ram/storage. Is Mac OS worth a $500 premium?

Why? Sheepple will always buy it regardless

100% I have an M1 Pro and won’t need a laptop for quite a while.

wont be upgrading my m1 air for another 2 years

Also repeat after me, even if you’ve got a capable Intel laptop, you still DO NOT NEED this

Also repeat after me: "even if you don't already have an m series laptop or a capable Intel counterpart, your broke ass can't afford this anyways😂"

Hehe I’m buying it now (I’m not)

and still get called out by haters for not calling out Apple when he does it ALL the time haha

I know right I was like damn way to call them out. 😊

​@Swashcuff Yeah because its no secret that he owns the full Apple ecosystem. You have to be really sтupid to expect an honest review of Apple products from him. 😂

Where is he calling out Apple? This entire video is promoting Apple equipment

@@soulfires17 Calling out a person/company doesn't mean you can't recommend their products. You know what? Hold on. What did you mean he didn't call them out? He mentioned their predatory prices (he's always done that) and he mentioned severally the SSD problem.

Still using my pro 2012 to date, got used for 250$ in 2015 and put an ssd and that’s it

Yeah bro, no one's ever criticized Apple for charging so much for memory. So brave. So courageous.

Agreed! Than you MKHB for not selling us out!

@@MortonSeinfeld Meanwhile Dell, Asus, HP etc do the exact same thing.

They won't stop doing this, it makes them a lot of money

@@user-zy7ou5vh3u Dell, Asus and HP don't charge $ 1000 for a stand and $ 400 for wheels with no brakes. And if they did they would be called out massively, and they wouldn't sell. Apple is the only company whose greed is paying off.

I wouldn't say M1 Air is right for those do their work in a web browser. Have this for the past 3 years, and the 8 GB of RAM is definitely limiting my workflow. I can use 20+ Google Chrome tabs and I have to close it all every time I want to do more

@@ilmanakbaryou do know chrome is a memory hog?

​@@BajGer12331 I C BAJ

@@ilmanakbarI’m a graphic designer and I also have 20 or more tabs open on a base m1 air. It slows down sometimes but it’s not by much. The m1 MacBook Air is still very much a great choice for those who do real work. It’s also very affordable making it the best value Mac right now.

Well it’s also a brilliant idea for Apple to have a competitor to the humble Chromebooks of such low quality that all the schools still refuse to stop buying… it’s bc that’s what they can afford, and if this trend continues maybe we’ll start seeing kids get actually good school computers 💻

Me too, base model. I have an external USB hub with two 1TB NVME external drives attached on one USB port, and the apple usb white usb connector for power, external monitor and a 3rd 1TB external SSD. After 18 months, I have 65% internal space left, but 256 GB is so small. But love the M1.

m2 is finally a decent value

Ye

Time to get M1

They didn't do a keynote or anything, just announced on the website. So there wasn't much to miss lol

Same ngl

Mine has developed screen issues.

@@EliStettnerwhat issue?

Left inch of the screen has vertical striping, mostly totally black. It changes frequently when I put any pressure on the screen. Apple wanted ~$400 to fully replace the top display, not just the LCD. @@fasn279

@@fasn279mine screen broke on its own twice. The m1 has a design flaw. The screen will break at some point. There’s a class action lawsuit about it and tons of threads on it.

mine also broke except it is an intel macbook with the butterfly keyboard might have gotten a crumb stuck inside

My 2015 mbp also doesn’t struggle with my 24mp uncompressed raw files

99% of people use laptops for browsing internet, watching videos and the like. I wonder why Apple sells them? PS you don't need to spend $1k to do that.

I use my M2 Air for all my home based development work. It has 16Gb and 512 drive and I paid the same as the base model M3 on sale. It is in every way comparable to the high powered Windows PC (supplied by my employer) I use for all my daily development work. Plus is has a nicer screen, keyboard, etc.

if you think your 1000$ laptop not struggling with 25MP images is "good performance" then i'm really sorry for you.

@@nicholasjaworski9368 But I'd think the fan would run a lot and the battery life would be greatly reduced?

That’s what I plan on doing.

I bought a M2 because I didn't have any M1 but have an IMac and an iPad so no need for an M3

Same. I don't think they meant to make the M1 Air so good lol.

@@josephjoestar515 True...
I mean, the jump was from Intel series to Silicon M1-series .
Besides, I feel Apple's RAM & Storage upgrade is.................A HUGE SCAM !!!
edit : Also... 8 GB RAM with 2024's workflow need...& must remember that it's not RAM, but "Shared Memory".
At least give 12GB on base M3 if it was 8GB on M1.

Same, love my m1 air. I use it for web browsing and music production and technically speaking, probably neither of us will "need" to upgrade until the software is so far ahead that it's actually slow, or our needs change. Though, with consumerism and all, we'll want the shiny new thing sooner or later haha

Do you use any heavy apps on it, just bought one yesterday and i wanna use it for music production

Or just throw it away, MacBooks are useless obsolete machines. Embrace Nvidia and intel.

@@miffygames9099I have been using base M1 Macbook Air for Dj software and also Ableton Live and it runs pretty well. I would say it starts to run little hot after a certain amount of time

Does ur m1 freeze if you have more than few tabs open on browser?

Same here (2021) air with 16gbs of ram. I use premier, avid, and FCPX on it with no issues. Rendering 4K stuff and coloring Slog3 fine. The only slow part is the exports. But if you manage your workflow properly, this isn’t a problem. The only time I find it getting slow is when I’m exporting, and rendering, AND Uploading at the same time. Which is rate

and car people hating him for no reason and say apple rider ... but ya he is fair

He's my #1 tech reviewer/influencer.

@@footballreaction7863 he's fair he said his daily driver and what prefers is android over ios still not hating on it for no reason and still even after praised by apple in their keynote he calls out their predatory pricing

I’m suing you for not commenting on Linus Tech Tips video
See you in court pal

May i come work for you despite not having film experience and being layed off a tech software development job soon? Just curious 😂

This has been my experience too. The leap from Intel to M1 was so great, I don't think our ideas of what sort of computers people need for what kinds of workflows have caught up.

do you think it will still smooth with 8gb model?

just got the same m2 15" mba thank god I saw your comment and how capable it is i havent really started doing heavy works so this ensured me.

@@spirouzii’ve got an 8gb m1 and it struggles if i’ve got multiple things open or i’m working on some 1080p footage with some effects applied on, 16gb should be the norm nowadays

Yeah this is what drives me up a wall when MB spewed the "it's good for light browsing" line.

I have an M1 Pro 16” with 16GB ram and 1 TB hard drive. Fantastic machine, but I routinely bring it to its knees with 20-30 browser tabs, a few VSCode windows for coding projects, and Resolve open for an occasional video project.
Unless you are crazy diligent about closing all unrelated apps, 8 or even 16 GB or ram is easily a limiting factor.

@@RickGregoryYes, it’s good for far more than that.

I’ve used a base M1 for several years in college and have never ONCE had an issue with RAM or storage or battery. 90% of people will be fine with it. Unless you do video editing or rendering or something intensive like that, which most people don’t, you won’t have any problems. I think Marques’ perspective is skewed because he does so much of that and is constantly surrounded by much more powerful tech. But maybe I’m also biased pretty diligent about closing tabs that I don’t need, and I use Safari which is more efficient than chrome. But I can have several safari & vscode tabs open at once without issue

so its enough if I get a M2 air huh alr

I love my M1 MBP. Such a beast. I spilled coffee on it and fried it temporarily, but got it fixed. Had it not been revived I’d honestly just buy another M1 and save the money than get the latest M#.

@@MaicolacolaSame. Bought mine around 6 months ago and it’s an absolute monster for video editing

That's crazy man...A $500 windows PC could never do that lol

a 400$ laptop can do that bro, my laptop is 2years old windows machine with m2 ss2 and works flawlessly. Flexing for those things is dumb because the point stands. 8gb ram for 1100$ is too much

@@gzararifacts

I remember I had a 2019 intel MacBook Pro for art school and that thing was DREADFUL
I honestly never saw it at peak performance because it was constantly burning

why would you get an M3 over an M1 then? or even M2?

So if you are a non power user why are you considering getting an m3 air? Why not get a M1 or M2 for cheaper?

As someone who has used an M1 8GB Air and an M2 24GB Air for software development, the difference in price does not justify the difference in performance. Especially for compute-light tasks like you're doing, I would highly suggest saving money and getting an M1 or M2 instead of the M3. Also, the M1 has better speakers and a bigger trackpad, they took a step backwards with the design there.

​@@julm7744 💀

At this point, you’d only really benefit if you wanted to free up a port (as it has MagSafe in addition to the 2 usb c ports). But other than that, the m1 is still an excellent machine.

It’s the reason I sold it. Can’t stand it. That extra hole makes everything so much better!! (That’s what he said)

Same, I got 16gb RAM/512 SSD. It will last for a while. Don't think it's worth upgrading.

Apple will make you upgrade it *software updates incoming*

​​​​@@khanshoyeb7And then OpenCore and the like are going to jump in and make it available for old Macs. Unless there's some kind of hardware revolution coming soon, the M1 and M2 are probably going to run the latest macOS for the next 20 years.
I've got an early 2008 iMac and it's still running the latest version of macOS with OCLP. The only thing that's going to stop it from getting the latest version in the future will be the end of support for OS X on Intel.
I'm actually really excited for when M1 starts being considered garbage. Outdated Apple computers are probably the best super cheap PCs that money can buy. There's no way an M1 won't be able to run MS Office or web browsing in the future.

Don’t let Apple see this comment you will make them think they are doing something wrong

how does it work with multiple websites of chrome + zoom running at the same time?

My 2015 base spec MacBook 12“ has 8gb ram and 256gb storage. It has held up strong but I wouldn’t buy a MacBook almost 10 years later with the same specs.

I have the same Mac for the same kind of stuff and it is fantastic. Only reason I’m trading it in towards the new one though is because I’d like more storage and MagSafe is back, which is amazing I’m not sure why they got rid of it to begin with.

yeah you think so now, but if you are regularly going over 8gb of memory needed it will swap memory onto the hard drive. That puts loads of write cycles on the drive that they are not designed for. And if it ever breaks you can't replace it because they are soldered straight onto the mother board.

Yup same here

Yeah, I agree, these apple silicon machines are very impressive from what I'm hearing all over the world. So, any plans with your old macbook? 😁😁 would you mind passing it over to me?😁😁 please,

I agree, those bezels are huge, but then again, my current pc is a 2009 dell, so even that 2012 macbook air, performance wise, it would be an upgrade hahaha, I wish I could show you the condition it's in right now, hahahaha it's a sad story🤣@xahst 🤣

don't know about that guy but if someone actually gave me a pc for free it can be as slow and weak as it wants to I only care if it works, besides never had a mac one so would be cool (not asking for anything, just explaining the reasoning)

valid point. @@dorussecondaccount

This. Man, you can basically do a lot of things professionally with airs, music production, etc. Obviously not everything, but it’s fine for a lot of professional stuff

That's true, however it's worth considering M1 MBA came out in 2020 and Macs tend to get around 5 years of software support.

I've got a base M1 Pro, been using it for years and it runs super fast even with 10+ tabs open, and 5 programs open too. The M1 Air is also nice and an insane value for the money right now.

I edit my Canon R6s 4k 60fps on my M1 Air just fine using Final Cut.

Exactly. My daughter studies computer science and still uses the M1 daily (VS code, Eclipse, iTerm2, Docker, etc.), use MS Teams, Office, Azure, AWS, etc, etc. Problem with youtubers like Marques is that they never worked a normal job and when they think "professional" they think video editing.

Me too

I recently upgraded from MacBook Pro 15 inch 2019 to MacBook Pro 14 inch M3, and so far I'm loving it! I loved my Intel-based MacBook though, but the screen started to glitch and the company I bought it from couldn't fix it. The fans on this model tho....fantastic!

does yours die really fast or just me??

@@kinnn9258 give it back that's fault unit shouldn't day if you are browsing in like 6 hours of usage you should have still around 20% would say

Which color?

same here, its my daily driver

There are so many people on KRplus saying exactly the same thing!

same

It's getting better year after year, right?

8gb though... you need 16

They also need more features. A windows laptop can do better with better features. Comparing my bros Asus ZenBook to my Mac air 16gb. Mine is more expensive but his is better in terms of screen performance , features like charge only to 80% , fan mode, blurry etc. All these l have to install applications etc

how about buying some other laptop/notebook?

@@aliciasam5239not really, the macbook will still last twice as long on battery while being completely silent and not losing any performance when its unplugged from the wall 🤷‍♂️

Unfortunately not really. Base storage yes, base memory? Nah, virtually everyone is fine with the 8 Gb they give. 8GB of memory is different depending on the device. Compared to a phone it’s probably equivalent to 16 GB especially with how optimised Mac is over windows. Just stop using chrome as a browser and you’ll be a okay

@@aliciasam5239 Optimised charging or charge to 80% is an OS level feature and it's available on Intel and AS MacBooks. Literally I can see my M1 MBP that I'm typing on doing it now.

@@XeZrunneryou have no idea of the 32gb of ram glory 💀 upgraded my windows laptop from 8 to 16 to 32 I’ve got over 70 tabs on 6 workplaces the most I ever use I’d say is between 45% and 55% ram usage everything is smooth and fast never have to close anything

@@lockhart1895 Mac OS is way different, I could have eight tabs open on Firefox and be using 14 gigs of ram already

​@@XeZrunnerlmao I use a 16gb m1 mb pro and it becomes unusable for development, Apple's ram prices are joke.
Sure if you're only running xcode and that's it...but really a developer is running slack, teams, browser with a million tabs, ide, request runner like postman, vpn, etc etc. 8gb isn't enough, 16 isn't either. But I'm not paying Apple 400£ for ram worth like 150£ retail value

super lightweight and yet you can plugin a 4k external monitor at desk . i even got a portable usb-c monitor when i work during “workation” road trips.

I was lucky - I wanted to replace my (showing the creaks) 2018 i5 MBP with an M based device. Went the week the M3 air was released. Got a 15 inch M2 with 16GB and 512 drive for the same price as the base model M3... I consider that a bargain. Planning on giving it a 5 year or so life like the MBP. Seems well up to the dev tasks I'm pushing at it so far.

@@timsbird1971would you recommend M3pro or M3?

@@hamletgolucky3628 for the money a 2023 M2 Air with 16gb and 512 - it will do 95% of what 95% of people need and save a chunk of money

In regular browsing on my Mac, one window for research and one for a google doc, I regularly run up to 11 gb. [edited, I originally wrote 16gb here. I think I meant to write 11/16 gb.]

@@EliStettner Either one of the websites you're using has a memory leak, you're working with large files, or you have too many tabs open.

That kind of reminds me of when people argue how "apple is better than windows/android". They compare a $1000 laptop, or a $900 dollar phone, to the $200 budget android their little cousin uses, or $400 laptop their grandpa got.
I think if you're willing to get refurbished/used stuff (which admittedly many users arent and i get it) you could probably get a great day to day web browsing/office use laptop for like... 350/400 dollars, save for the battery life issue (IMO Macbooks' greatest strenght)

@@EliStettner That sounds like a memory leak lol

That's what I say, my sister does the basics, so I recommended her a Acer Aspire A314 with a Ryzen 3 7320U, 8gb of RAM and 512gb of storage for less than 400€ (I looked deep for a deal, but remember in Europe tax is included) and this does more than she needs, great performance and 10h battery life.
Another thing is that stuff like USB-A is super useful for people that only do the basics, sharing any flash drive, connecting a mouse, connecting any phone, connecting to a printer because it's acting up, etc. this doesn't have anything to do with "starting at" issue, but these type of things are much more important for basic use than a nice screen, aluminum body and RT capabilities.

I love mine and have no complaints.

rip

I also use external drives since i dont trust macbooks - they may always crash and erase everything you,ve got in storage. It happened once to me (in 2015 i think). Glad to know that you can use your Air for heavy video editing. I always thought macbook airs were for light office work and always opted for macbooks. I use a lot of Photoshop and Illustrator and my files are like 100x70cm big, 300dpi. Would you think it could work with an air like yours?

@@cz2301 - I would say yes because I do heavy editing with it, so just ensure that I keep it quite ‘clean’ - I delete unnecessary docs/images from the computer regularly. I don’t do 4K editing- not sure if that makes a difference. Got all the adobe packages I use loaded on it and some other image upgrade packages. I use LaCie rugged external now as I lost all my data on a normal LaCie - it dropped just 10 cm onto the floor in 2019- everything gone!

I got a 2019 MacBook Pro and the battery life is pissing me off. But I also don’t want to replace it because it’s so expensive so in that case I could just buy a new laptop….
but I’m not giving in. I’m keeping the thing for at least another year.

Y'all would probably have a lot to gain by switching to an Apple silicon MacBook, the battery life on five year old Intel Macs is pretty bad

the m1 mac air battery life is crazy. i get 20 hours (including gaming, hw, etc.) if you ever upgrade, get the m series macs

@@reduchimaki Ok what the heck? I don't get nearly that much.

Mine died last year 🥲 2017 MacBook Pro gave me a lot of problems 😭

I'm a student.. I am going to buy a MacBook air. Which one would be worth my money? The MacBook air m1 base variant or MacBook air m2 base variant, which is now $200 cheaper.. I am confused about m1 air which has a less brighter display and old vibes on the design including a thick bezel .. suggest me please

I'm responding from one now. Bought it 2.5 years ago. Never owned an apple product before. Best purchase I've made.

@@swadhinnandy I have an M1 and I'm upgrading to an M3. For the usual everyday use? M1 all the way. Works fine, from Office, to recording, even to playing WOW. I just got the M3 because I wanted a 15 inch display. Otherwise I would stick with the M1 because a Mac usually lasts for like years to come and still working fine.
So if thats all you need? Log Battery live, watching movies, doing office work and an occasional editing/basic 3D work - Get an M1.

@@tannerbeck8997 have you carried out your MacBook?
As I am a college student, I have to carry it with me maximum time. A lot of people faced the display cracking issue. Could you please tell me about this? I am a little bit afraid about it.

@@drv3973 is it still relevant in 2024? What's your opinion?

When didn't he?

Not just Marques but others have called it out as well. But it is not like Apple will listen - knowing them they might even consider an increase in a few years.

he made a whole video on the apple pricing ladder, everyone is aware on how crazy their prices get

Their prices are very reasonable IMO. Their hardware is amazing. The only laptop I've dropped serious cash on was a Razor and the hardware and service turned out to be trash. I love my first gen Surface Laptop, but I'd probably get an Air because how cheap they are. Wish they had the Surface screen though.

It's 2024. It just becoming more and more unacceptable for such base specs and upgrade prices.

Incoherent comment.

@@gorgolyt slow user

So, you noticed.

What kind of work do you do that requires such speed and 180 SECONDS is too slow for you to fill the entire SSD?!

@@furTron you would be surprised by the difference between the m2 and m3 mba speeds. I mean you saw it in the video, it’s literally almost double

Chromebook could do that too? For cheap

@@fasn279@fasn279 But their battery life sucks, and performance is 3year+ behind (future-proofing) and also are mainly built cheaply, and usually low compared to premium MB Air. The extra money is easily worth it.

Yes, Apple is not discontinuing the M1 MB Air; they are just not selling them on their website. I suspect Apple will keep selling them until their new rumoured MacBook 12 arrives next year, which will be priced around $700-800.

in that case i wonder if they may use different parts… sometime manufacturers may use cheaper or newer, better parts or assembly line for older gen.

What choice do you have if want or need MacOS?

@@XxZannexX well thats the whole reason why Apple can and will charge this much for spec upgrade

​@@sys-administratorApple has been known for years for overcharging for RAM and storage size.

​@@sys-administrator for 1199 you can get a ASUS Laptop with lower FHD instead of 2k screen, with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS and RTX 4060, but with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD. So yeah, you can get a very decent windows laptop with better memory and storage.

insaine is selling models from 2017 for £1000 :)

Should’ve got a Chromebook ?

And it's gonna be good for the next 5 years.

What do you mean it‘s still good? This thing ain‘t even a year old lmao.

it’s still good? are you being serious? of course it is

tell me your family is rich without telling me your family is rich

And the masses were saying his controlled by Apple...😂😂