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Review on Renewed Apple MacBook Air - 13-inch Retina Display, 💻 1.6GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, 256GB in Gold (Latest Model) by Ha Joon ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

I definitely recommend buying, I didn't notice any disadvantages.

Experience about migrating from Intel Mac to M1 Mac. I’ve been working on Macs since 2022. The last one was a Macbook Pro 2022 16" i7. Heavy, noisy under load. It’s convenient to work at home with a 16m screen. But it’s not very good to carry around 2+ kg plus charging. I work with Final Cut, Reaper , office applications. When working with heavy projects, it warmed up like a frying pan on the stove and the battery quickly landed. And just 4k video without effects could become difficult for him. At the same time, he was noisy so that I wanted to fasten it, look like an infection will take off with him. it didn’t happen, it’s not worth the money and six months later the MBP16 was sold on ebay. In January 2022, I bought m1 air. Before that, I studied Reddit about the work of M1 with the applications I needed. What's cool: 1. Autonomy. When the manufacturer writes - 19 hours, well, who believes in it, kamon, this is in ideal conditions, not including anything. An no. Really in work with the browser, texts, tables 19 hours issues. On video, sound around 8-15h. 2. It does not heat up. In general, it never gets hot at all. 4k video with fx factory plugins, don't care. No need for cooling, as a result, work in complete silence. 3. Performance. I did not believe everything that is written on the forums. Well, it can’t, some kind of mobile percentage is better than i7! Erm, maybe a lot. 100500 tracks in the audio editor without problems. The volume of projects ceased to excite me, no glitches, no freezes. Everything drags. What else would you highlight after MBP16. Definitely the buttons are much better than the Touch Bar. I don't understand why the hell everyone started putting touchbars everywhere. You can press the button without looking, you need to look at the touchbar where you poke. A trifle, but it interfered with my life. On the work of applications. Everything I need works like clockwork. I didn't notice any issues with the transition. Everything opens either through Rosetta, or there are native ones under m1. Final Cut flies. If you think between M1 / ​​Intel - definitely M1. Well, or wait for M2. Life without coolers and heating with an autonomy of 20 hours is a fundamentally different operating experience. You don't want to go back to Intel)

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Pros
  • Autonomy, performance, design, weight, build quality, screen, keyboard, trackpad, native software.
Cons
  • Webcam, no sd card slot, no magsafe.

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November 16, 2022
Has pros: The overall impression is good, I bought it for experiments on decoding a hard drive, it turned out to be safe. Now I myself use it for travel, etc. Has cons: The tab key broke after a couple of days.
November 16, 2022
Some pros: And it really does hold a charge for a long time. Not flimsy, feeling of reliability, screen Different cons: Ports. You have to buy some adapters. Strange touchpad. And the keyboard often does not work switching languages, skips some letters.

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