I used to be a HAM - Hardware Asset Manager - for a large company. 30K+. Lemme tell you something - for those that we provisioned Apple products to, it was amazing what could be done with a near base model Air. Now, I know a lot of you “pro-consumers” act like I’m telling lies, but yea, big work was completed on…base or near base model Airs. The spec’d out MacBook Pros were for actual serious developers who were working on specific products and not the person who thinks they’re a serious developer.
A lot of folks would likely benefit greatly from a Chromebook competitor where the MB has “just enough” to do whatever it needs to do. Again, YOU may think you’re above a base model M1/M2 MBA…but you’re really not, especially if most of what you’re doing is web-based applications in the first place.
I could easily see myself getting one of these if the form factor is one of a MBA and using these for trips and travel. I could see myself shitposting on one of these. I could see myself streaming VPN content to my TV with one of these (can’t wait for my VPN provider to work within the latest Apple TV update). A lot of my life could be done in one of these.
Likely your lives, too. Especially those like me who are still rocking the 2014 MBP and acting like technology hasn’t advanced ten fold since 2014…this will likely be better than what I’m typing on.
I used to be a HAM - Hardware Asset Manager - for a large company. 30K+. Lemme tell you something - for those that we provisioned Apple products to, it was amazing what could be done with a near base model Air. Now, I know a lot of you “pro-consumers” act like I’m telling lies, but yea, big work was completed on…base or near base model Airs. The spec’d out MacBook Pros were for actual serious developers who were working on specific products and not the person who thinks they’re a serious developer.
A lot of folks would likely benefit greatly from a Chromebook competitor where the MB has “just enough” to do whatever it needs to do. Again, YOU may think you’re above a base model M1/M2 MBA…but you’re really not, especially if most of what you’re doing is web-based applications in the first place.
I could easily see myself getting one of these if the form factor is one of a MBA and using these for trips and travel. I could see myself shitposting on one of these. I could see myself streaming VPN content to my TV with one of these (can’t wait for my VPN provider to work within the latest Apple TV update). A lot of my life could be done in one of these.
Likely your lives, too. Especially those like me who are still rocking the 2014 MBP and acting like technology hasn’t advanced ten fold since 2014…this will likely be better than what I’m typing on.
Hard agree. M1, even downclocked or eg. with 6 cores instead of 8, for 12" chassis, is plenty enough for 80% of people.