MacBook Air 15" Review - The Best Laptop ALMOST (1 Month Later!)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Apple's new 15 inch MacBook Air may be using older parts but it's finally fulfilling the need of something Apple has lacked in its laptop lineup forever, an affordable 15 inch laptop that should probably end up being the new default laptop purchase for most Mac users... except there are sometimes where maybe you shouldn't buy it.
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It is NOT the best. NO NATIVE HDMI PORT.
The majority of users don’t need hdmi. Same with the RAM but it would be ideal if Apple included 16gb as the base.
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Not in the market for this laptop, but if I were I’d find this video super helpful. Videos like this keep me subscribed and watching. Thank you for your efforts!
I like what you did with the intro. Has real 3 million subscriber energy.
Thanks I was really going for over edited garbage, I guess I succeeded.
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate your thoughts. Blessings on your day!
love watching your vids Greg, I was in 2 minds about a 15" air vs a M1 14" base model MacBook Pro & the deciding factor was the ports & mag safe so very happy with my 14"M1 MacBook Pro in July 2023 ..great price too
Great vid! You touched on all the points I was curious about. Thank you!
I did exactly what you described - I bought this 15 inch Air with upgraded 16GB Ram. I then bought a USB4 external enclosure and a 2TB Samsung 980 - so have a 2TB external for the same price as going from 256GB to 512GB. I have only had it for about 2 weeks, but love it so far.
Great video. Learned so much. Thanks, Greg.
Thanks for this helpful review. I'm considering my very first Macbook after using Chromebooks for a bunch of years and this one really appeals to me. Most of the reviews of this focus mainly on how it's not as good as a Macbook Pro and I don't care that it's not as good, I don't need that much power. I think the base model of this will be enough power for me.
I use spreadsheets a lot, so the extra screen size makes a wonderful difference.
I got myself the 15 Air with 24GB RAM and 256 SSD, the reason why I went with the configuration is cause I use a gaming monitor as a 2nd Monitor display which can use significant energy when I have 2 windows open on an browser so that extra RAM is very useful and there is NO alternatives for extra ram while I do have a 5TB external hard drive which there is many alternatives and having a bigger screen on the MacBook Air for less then 2000 bucks is just insane value. I was thinking at a Pro version at first but just to have the 14 M2 Pro is already 2000 bucks + tax and I don’t really need the HDMI port since I already have a USB Hub, overall I love the portability of the MacBook Air 15 and upgrading it from my Intel 2020 MacBook Air is a huge Win for me! Especially adding the Educational Pricing Discount!
Awesome review. Instantly subscribed :)
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Yeah everything is fine! New video tomorrow, sorry to keep you waiting 🙏
I'm glad you mentioned that the screen technology is different compared to the 14-in because I had a 14-in for about a week but something about that screen irritated my eyes and caused migraines. Might give this a shot.
interesting, maybe due have a lot light? mini led?
It's from the PWM the mini-LEDs use to modulate brightness. Some users (like myself) are quite sensitive and literally cannot use devices with PWM comfortably. The 15 in does not use PWM. Neither does the M2 13 inch. Every other apple laptop for the last 6 years besides those use PWM.
interesting, what about the 32 XDR display, same thing?
I am in love with mine. I bought the 512 model (all other options base) and I just cannot believe how nice this device is. I have made quite a few 4k videos in Davinci Resolve and it's fast and has no stutter. I am one of the few people left still playing World of Warcraft and I play it at maximum graphics with zero lag.
8gb or 16gb ram?
all of the above are answering my questions (I play WoW too) , thanks
hdr display is one of the bigger reasons for me purchasing a 14 inch. if they would have given the air even an oled display with a lower brightness it would have been enough to sway me into one of those. but the same 500 nit lcds they have been using forever have to go
use mba 15, 16gb 1 tb ... yes it is a great laptop, upgrade from my mbp 2015..., external ssd Samsung T7 1 TB, and icloud 2 TB, more than enough ... Now I can put all the softwares I need, previously using Ipad Pro M1, not so happy because have to use 2 gadgets (mbp) for musical composition. Thanks for your suggestion.
it's not the same m2, the base m2 in the 13" has some gpu cores disabled but that's not the case on the base 15", you have to pony up to get the same cpu on the 13" which may explain the difference in your benchmarks.
The intro alone made me subscribe right away. 😂
Ha thank you 🙏
do not sleep on the m2 air. it's really good and thin like an ipad.
Do you think the 15" Air could for the needs of a graphic design student ?
But I have one question who would the 24gb Air be for? I am just curious who that market is for.
Thank you so much 😂
Going from 2018 macbook pro 15 ir 16 inch. Only need it for med school with some photoshop… do i just go for the macbook 2023?
hey, greg! I plan to buy a MBA M2 with 16 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of SSD. it will be my first mac device. I will use it for coding, watching lectures and even some high end development. i plan to use it for 6 years . do you recommend it to me ?
Picking up the 15 & 14 pro they feel much the same, the problem is the very close price difference especially when the 14 pro is on sale.
Especially if you spec up the Air!
If the screen size difference doesn't bother you, I would go with the Pro for similar money.
@@chicobs Absolutely
I love my Pro (although I have the 16) and I find the screen colors/brightness and speakers just too good to pass up. Sure it’s a heavier thing but it’s not like it’s too heavy to carry around.
I paid €2100 for a 16 GB 1 TB Midnight Air and I LOVE IT
I am one of the unnecessary MacBook Pro people
@GregsGadgets do you think the Mac Air 15" could handle live video streaming at 1080? By live streaming I mean as in using OBS.
@GregsGadgets, I want to replace my aging intel based MBA 2017 and have shortlisted MBA M2 13 or 15 inch. My use will be official work basic task like web browsing, emails, facebook/zoom meeting, you tube watching, MS office (word, excel, powerpoint), pdf file creation and normal file transfer thru emails etc. I wont need it for coding or photo editing etc but just for normal basic use mentioned above. My question is whether the base model 8/256 GB is enough for me or do I need to upgrade RAM or SSD for MBA M2 due to slow SSD issue. Will appreciate your feedback.
What IF I get a college student to take advantage of the back to school deal to drop the 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage all for $1,500 (not including tax)… Is that still worth it?
What if Greg accidentally dropped?
😳
It will have a different title and go viral. The money he makes off it maybe worth 10 MacBooks lol 😂
I will now subconsciously associate Final Fantasy 7 with the MacBook air 15'
Still waiting for you to drop it
if you're not rendering videos all day, it's literally the best non-gaming laptop ever made imo.
the M2 chip is very snappy and feels faster than my M1 mac studio
I have a old 2015 15 inch Macbook Pro with the Radeon dedicated graphic card 16gb of ram 2.5ghz cpu. I was just wondering how would this Air match up to it in editing 8 bit 4k30. I edit once a week a 1 hour long video; basic the only thing I do is backgrounds, titles, and dissolves with slight color corrections. Rendering generally takes around 21/2 to 31/2 sometimes to render out a video( Using Final Cut). How do you think the 15 inch Macbook Air would fair with the same tasks and maybe bumping up to 10 bit. I remember when I purchased my current laptop I paid like $1300 for it, used, off Amazon back in 2017. Do you think I would be ok getting the Air for what I do versus paying the 2 grand for the 14 inch Macbook Pro?
I have a 2015 15” MBP, too! It has really served me well. I edit vids but nothing that is an hour long. Good luck with your decision!
I bought the 256 GB one, was that a bad decision?
If this computer existed last year when I bought my 16" MacBook pro I would have purchased the 15" Air. I really appreciate the larger display for the office work I do professionally every day. The extra couple of inches on on the 16" makes all the difference for multitasking. It means I can have excel files open right next to outlook windows while both are large enough to read comfortably.
Same here. My 16 inch is so heavy, bulky .. stays home most times. Use iPad Pro 12.9 in its place. Guy at Best Buy told me trade-in on M1 16” 16GB RAM/1TB storage was $800!! I don’t need the processing power but do need the screen.. But I’m not stupid!!
@@NomusaMagical Same. My MacBook Pro stays at the desk 99% of the time so I also use a 12.9” iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard as a portable device.
@@Piketom1 I guess iPad Pro really is a “desktop replacement” for some of us. I do have a few things that require a full desktop version browser. A FEW!! 😊
How much do u get for the affilate program with Amazon-apple?
I have the 15 inch Air I love it, I got 1tb and 16gb of ram. It is great on battery and is fast enough for most daily everyday task. I defiantly did not need however the added storage but the memory is a plus
I got the same specs for my Macbook Air and love it
so coooooooooo
You would have gotten pro with that money
which mouses would work for this macbook??
Hi there! I’m currently considering purchasing a MacBook Air M2 within a budget of around $1300. I’m currently pursuing my master’s degree and frequently use software such as MySQL, R programming, and Python. I’m unsure whether I should opt for the 13-inch MacBook Air with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD or the 15-inch MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. What would you recommend I choose given my situation?
If you can stretch a little bit more, get the 15in 16GB/256GB, otherwise get the 13in 16/256.
For your budget and if you consider a 13" Mac: Macbook Air M1 with 16GB. 8GB is not future-proof.
Honestly very confused rn
1. 15 inch m2 8gb-256gb ($1150)
2. 14 inch m1 pro 16gb-512gb ($1335)
Really wanting the bigger screen but tempted with the pro spec (although i mainly used for office and simple video editing)
Help 😢
Any heating issues ??
It's amazing how many people went out and bought this computer just to do a review. You did buy it, right?
I picked it up with 24gb of memory and use up 20gb of that daily I’m very happy with it fast and convenient 🎉
How much storage did you get? Thinking of getting the 16gb with 512 storage. Probably will get an external later on.
@@orlandoalexander7119 get 512gb that’s fine for apps but use iCloud and external storage for everything else but try getting 24gb Ram you wont regret it
I need to see the damage so I can understand the consequences of dropping it down my stairs again.
😂
The real struggle is picking between the Air 15" fully loaded and a base Pro 16" (M2 or M1 Pro). In most cases, it's not easy to find a M1 Pro at a good discount (if you're outside the US) and the jump towards the M2 Pro is quite big. However, the better screen, speakers and overall performance are pushing me towards the Pro 16". At the same time, the Air screen is not as "stable" as the Pro one... The building quality is less sturdy,
drop test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the 3k computer meets the 300k computer loo
If that MacBook slipped out of his hand while shooting that first segment, it would have made for some of the best UA-cam comment ever.
I didn’t win a prize, this is spam
Stop scamming people
What’s the point of the iPad now if you have an Apple Vision Pro? 😆 You can have a bunch of virtual iPads.
The SCREEN is NOT good enough on 15.... 16 INCH SCREEN is amazing...
I checked it out in a store. Not very portable, is it?
Very portable. I took it to Europe with me last month. Perfect size!
Speaker which sounds best 15 air 14 pro 16 pro?
15 air
Got a 15 inch 8/512!
I am also considering 8/512. How is your experience so for?
@@Emre-tf9mx it’s great! 8gb of ram is enough on a Mac even for the UX design / photo work that I do, Mac handles ram very well. I got 512 because I needed the extra space for apps and design storage. But I think a lot of people can get away with 256 just depends what you plan to do with it
It will be a game changer, when this 15 macbook air gets an M3 processor, it should ship with 16gb base ram and a 512gb ssd and a display upgrade. It will fulfill the needs of most low to medium users across the board.
There is zero, less than zero chance the base M3 will come with 16GB/512GB base without a considerable price increase.
Are you finding the m2 struggling with 16gb of ram in this? I haven’t been able to slow it down.
I don’t even use Mac OS, I fire up my 2019 MacBook Pro maybe once or twice a month for a few minutes then I’m back to one of my iPads the 12.9 iPad Pro being the largest screen that I regularly use. I’m retired so for most things I do doesn’t require a proper computer operating system, on top of that I live in a small studio apartment where I would have to find a place where I could use a large laptop. My 12.9 iPad can already be challenging to use in some places in my apartment, despite all of that I’m still tempted to buy Apples new 15 laptop. Somebody talk me off the ledge 😂
I just got it the best laptop ever but sadly i may need to return it due to badly eye strain and severely headache after using it for 15min.
Can this handle 4k video editing ? . Would love to know
Yeah it can handle it! If you're editing projects that are longer than 10 minutes with more than 1 stream of 4K, I'd strongly recommend upgrading to 16gb of memory for a smoother experience.
@@GregsGadgets Thank you Greg 🙏🏻. Very helpful info ❤️
Any M1 or M2 device can handle hobby level and even intermediate level 4k editing pretty well. It's only once you get up dealing multi-cam footage, heavy effects work, or doing big exports that you'll want to start looking at the Pro devices. Not because of the chip itself, but because of the cooling. Basically, if the computer is not going to be running at 100% CPU for several minutes at a time, it'll probably be fine.
That's the cool thing that Apple did with their M chips - there really is no "low end" M chip, they start out pretty darn good.
@@RameshKumar-ng3nf and if you're upgrading to 16GB of RAM you're getting closer to the price of a 14" Macbook Pro which is superior to the Macbook Air in it's screen, ports and sound.
@@mavfan1 Oh Okay. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Annoying that it still has the stupid notch for no reason at all.
Every time I see the open mouth face on cover I expect to see it in video but it never happen
When are people like Greg going to understand that apple is not going to add extra ports to the MBA because they want people buying the more expensive MBP if they want more ports. Sheeeesh.
Why should he? This product is for people who do NOT need all those ports, but really want a bigger screen, like me.
I never ever hook my MacBook to an external screen. Otherwise I would get a MacMini. I simply need a good sized screen and MacOS. I don’t need a massive SSD as I have already external storage at home, with back up.
The user base for the pro series is different in reference to what they need and want to do with their machines.
The Air, both sizes, are incredibly portable and light weight. Perfect for when I travel. And I travelled a lot since 1993!
So you see, your comment is just an assumption of what you think Apple is doing here.
Of course, everybody is different. But techno’s so advanced these days, that the top end products are not necessary anymore. And Apples OS‘s across the board are a huge argument for that! Food for thought, right?
BTW flexing with the most expensive is so 2009. And that you can afford something doesn’t mean you have to buy it.
Are you at the MKBHD HQ?
No I'm at Greg's Gadgets HQ.
@@GregsGadgets so you guys share a building?
why are you screaming in the thumbnail
Yes,not the best thumbnail 👎
I love aplle
Funny!
Greg is on PEDs
Is caffeine a PED?
Never have I seen UA-camrs get so excited about such an ordinary piece of tech. This is literally the most disappointing release of 2023.
Looking at many Windows reviews and most are sponsored as they are so boring upgrades that YT creators would not bother if they were not paid by Windows OEMs. It is a laptop, a mature market. What are you expecting in this sector. Boring is now the new good as we are just getting refinement to what we have.
@@andyH_England plenty of innovation out there if you take a look, from LG, Asus and others. This is literally JUST a bigger screen and YT's are jizzing all over it with excitement.
@@shaun1900 there are some freaky looking niche designs that have the wow factor when released but soon become a waste of money and no one buys them. Next year. Laptops have matured and the best design is simplicity and user efficiency. That means for vast the majority, the MacBook Air 15 is a beast and easily the best ultrabook in the world at the moment.
Apple silicon is amazing. This is only the second generation of a monumental chip change and most Mac users are still on an older intel machine. What's not to get excited about?
@@GregsGadgets bigger screen size does not excite me. If Mac air going to be a portable device they should’ve made it touchscreen and this is the only thing that can make me excited I’m still using my iPad Pro. It’s a great computer can almost do everything what I want to do it is very portable.
I'm a SICK individual
excuse me can i contact you ?
"We all know the MacBook would break from this height"
Pathetic. A Nokia would break the floor instead.