How Good is a $70 2014 MacBook Air in 2024?
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2024
- Hi everyone, today I am giving my thoughts after 2 months using the 2014 Macbook Air as a throw-in-a-bag device. Huge shout out to @lukemiani for the inspiration with the Macbook videos and also @DawidDoesTechStuff for being my favorite tech channel. I look forward to making some more in the future.
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Picked up a 2013 i7 8gb version with a new battery for $120. After cleaning it, repasting and adding a line of thermal pads on the heat pipe. It runs like a dream. Pushed to 1000/1950 Geekbench 6 score running Sonoma - 6 hours watch time of YT or other streaming services. I now carry this one around in my backpack as my everyday computer, leaving my 16" M1 Max at home. Half the weight and no worries damaging it 👍
Same specs got mine for $50 all original repasted running Sonoma. Think it’s time for a battery tho I’m only getting about 3-4 hrs max
Thanks for this review! I used to have one of these (idk what year) but I broke it and I’ve missed it ever since. I saw one secondhand so it’s good to know that it would still work for me!!!
Thank you, I'm getting the same laptop, im sooo not an Apple person, I'm getting it for 2 reasons, writing screenplays and the cool lit-up apple logo lol
i still have my 11inch macbook air 2014. still works.
I acquired a 2014 base macbook air with 4gb ram recently. It is my secondary throw in the bag laptop as I don't want to lug around my 16 in m1 max 2021 macbook pro.
It has been doing the job wonderfully. I have it running macOS Sonoma with opencore and Windows 11 via bootcamp with a workaround and it does the job great! Now I mean it is slow but for documents and web browsing it does the job.
As long as you have patience and keep your expectations in check, it will do the job well!
Got a 2014 MBA around 2017 and stopped using it around 2019 and put in storage. Took it out last week and it still runs great. Swapped out the old battery back in 2019 and the charge is only like 16 so the battery is going to last for a few more years.
When I got it have a 500GB NVME so it have plenty of space with Big Sur. Unless I want to change it to 1TB not much upgrade could be done. 8GB of memory and is soldered in. Wished they would allow upgrading additional memory modules.
Nice laptop! I have a 2012 Air very similar to this one and I patched Big Sur on it because it still supports modern browsers without eating into my CPU. These are excellent laptops tbh. All I have is $35 in parts into this. $30 for a battery and $5 for thermal paste.
If you have 8 gigs of ram Sonoma will run just fine too - no worries upgrading with OCLP.
recently got 2017 MBA for college I am satisfied with it.
I bought that MacBook new back in the day. Still running great on its second battery which is decent also. Good pick up for vids, emails, browsing and documents. The wife inherited it after I picked up the Air 15".
Hi, are you able to extend display on it? Not sure how to do it on mind
Recently got a 2015 11 inch air, was able to install Monterey right away in the upgrade area.
Use the same MacBook Air as my secondary laptop. I got it in 2014. Recently I completely cleaned it, set it back to factory settings and the updated it to Big Sur. I use chrome instead of Safari as I have the experience that it is a bit faster. I have no problems with video streaming like youtube, netflix and prime. Email, Word, Excel etc. run normally. Windows laptops from that era are mostly not comparable. Usually really slow even with hardware upgrades and resets. Apple might charge a premium, but when it comes to Laptops it is really worth it. My MacBook Air is through 1500 charge cycles and has 91% capacity left. For more demanding tasks I use my MacBook Pro, but I don't want to carry it around every time and this old Air is a good Browsing and light working laptop.
I am still using it, infact watching this on one. Honestly not a bad machine, though would upgrade to the M3 air soon.
i have the same configure running on Monterey (using OCLP) and personally it performs better than Big Sur with less stuttering animations. The best part of this 10yo is the keyboard and the speaker
It could goes upgrade by OCLP Monterey with this kind of devices since the 2013 had the same way of macOS systems.
I have this laptop and was running out of storage and I didn't want to buy any external storage so I bought a 2020 Air. I still kept this old one, deleted everything on there, installed Big Sur, and now mainly use it for streaming.
How is battery life?
@@JayAccountant-ff1ju Terrible. Lol. But that's expected. It lasts about 3-4 hours. I keep getting a notification to have my battery checked.
@@sadie513 battery is cheap and easy to replace. No glue.
Is this laptop any good for writing code, I want to use it as a secondary laptop, because carrying my main laptop is usually stressful
People always say that Macs retain their value, and fetch good prices years later.
70 dollars for Macbook Air? o m g
Buy one and clean it. A new battery is $35 bucks, takes 5 mins to replace - no glue 👍
140 AUD is a steal! Will see if I can pick up a higher-spec model for this price
@@superaviation001 I wouldn’t count on that. He must’ve hit the lottery or got awfully lucky because you cannot get one for that price at all. I’m not saying he’s lying but the ones that are broken or missing hard drives are considerably more than what he paid for his. you’ll have better luck on Facebook marketplace. And you will have to wait and bargain on there. I know I’ve been in the game a while.
can you believe that I pay $300 on this second hand Mac on Tuesday
Wow your last video is 7 years ago, what took you so long to upload next one?
anyway I do like this retro review. The old macbook air are just so classic
My first dream macbook model is 2017 macbook pro
Back then I was study in a graphic design high diploma program. Most of my classmate was using 2017 macbook pro 13" it looks and feels amazing!
while I was using a Thinkpad 480(not bad tho)
One year ago I was finally bought my first real macbook
It's a 14" Macbook pro M1pro happily in use!
Just randomly got motivation after watching so many great tech UA-camrs. Planning to post more in the future. I agree the MB airs are classic and timeless! Thanks for commenting
Im still using my 2014 HP laptop just changed the ram and hdd to ssd it runs great
Nice! Sometimes that’s all it takes
I did put an 118gb octane m.2 in one off these...just because. It sure opens apps snappy, like it's got an adrenalin rush. Disk cost more than the MBA though. 😂
I had HP laptop for years but I gave in at the sliminess and light weight of the Macbook. The reason it outperformed others is the use of ssd drive and the os with code similar to Linux. Window sucks i stopped using it decade ago switching to Linux.
A used very affordable Macbook is an excellent choice for a used laptop. One drawback is it is hard to update ram and SSD as they are soldered on to make the device slim. I am experienced in electronics so i might do an update. 99% of the population is not willing or know how to do it.
how many hours does this macbook last
I would recommend switching to a Linux based distro, its works wonders with the macbook air.
Did a vid on this :) thanks for watching!
how long does it take battery life?
My battery is at 1500 charge cycles and 91%. So like new and depending on the task it can last through the day. As these laptops are only good for browsing and some office work you won't use to much battery.
Used Macbooks if you can get them at this price destroy Chromebooks in utility just like you say.
For sure!!
About the 4gb of ram, for doing writing and studies works well?
Yes, for general tasks like that it works just fine. I would make sure to keep minimal programs and tabs open at the same time.
@@jailbrayk great thanks!! I’ll get one mostly for pdf, word, excel, web and some videocalls… so, will go for it. Thanks!!
@@UtopianDarkGrey thanks for watching!!! Enjoy!
does it make video editing
iMovie and Final Cut Pro aren’t officially supported but I think there are workarounds. I haven’t tested it myself
100 subscribers lemme change that fr u have the quality of a 10k channel like tf???
Thank you!
Why don't you install Linux Mint on it and let us know how that compares to Big Sur.
Did that! Check my channel
this old pre retina macbook airs are getting cheap mine was 155$ like all most year a ago mine is a 2015
Well, you hit the lottery on that one because looking around right now you don’t see anything close to that at that price. The only thing you see are damaged ones or ones with no hard drive and even those are more than the one that you got.