I mean it’s the same 😂idk why people buy this. There is such a tiny difference. The m1 is good enough for the next 3-5 years as a power house. Im still editing like butter with the m1.
Same. By the time Apple stops supporting it Asahi Linux will be polished and ready and give the M1 Air another few years of life. I imagine even with degraded battery capacity the machine will still be plenty decent for everyday use
how is the same computer. Plus the creator is the dumb one for buying the machine 3 times in a row, apple just makes incremental upgrades, so that when you do upgrade you get the best possible version for your money
@A_GodApple he isn't dumb for buying this. He'll make the money back from the videos and people like you and I, who want info on these laptops, will benefit from this
Happy for you Gary. I'm a non-graphics, non-gaming guy. I LOVE my M1 MBP 14" and figure I don't have to upgrade it for another 5+ years! Have had dual monitor support since day one and got a refurbished model soon after initial release. But having dual monitor support on the Air is a REALLY good update for people needing that feature!
I'm trying to see if there's any advantage of going for a refurb M1 MBP 14" over a M3 MBA 15" new. I won't be using any pro features, just studying and coding (maybe some AI functionality is the most intense activity)
I took your advice from a couple months ago and got a base model 15” MBA with the M2 in it. I was waiting til they announced the m3 to see what kind of deal I could get on the M2. Welp, last weekend Best Buy was selling them brand new for $999!!! So yeah, I got the 15” in Starlight and I love it! 256GB of storage and 8GB of memory isn’t great but for what I need this laptop is perfect! BB even was selling the 512GB version for $1199 but $999 for this thing was just too good to pass on. Luckily I don’t use any external monitors so the M3 does nothing for me personally. Thanks for the recommendation!
Nice deal on the 15! You’re missing out though not using an external monitor. I run a m1 MBA and it’s so beautiful on my 32 monitor… the crispness, refresh rate, never a glitch switching tabs… you’ll love it.
I was waiting for the m3 version but it was so similiar to the m2 version i almost had no idea it even came out last week. So I went with best buy's deal and had $600 in trade in value for my M1 MBP. So basically I got the 15" inch MBA M2, which is exaclty the same as the M3, for $497 with taxes included. I don't like to do impulse buys but this seemed like a great deal to upgrade. I think I did pretty good!
I upgraded to a 15-in M3 MacBook Air from a base model M1 MacBook Air, I opted for the Midnight colour with 512 GB storage and 16 GB memory. I also opted for the 70 W single port charger rather than the dual-port 35 W version. It's very impressive (apart from Midnight being a fingerprint magnet!) and I believe the audio output is better than the 13-in model due to having 6 speakers compared to 4 on the smaller model. The screen size is excellent and plenty bright for my usage, i rarely use it in bright sunlight. The 1080p webcam's capability surprised me, I'd used other brand USB 1080p webcams and they were not as sharp or bright.
I'm still using my 13" Intel Macbook Pro (2017) and looking to finally upgrade this year. What I noticed is that right now, at least where I live, the 14" MBP M1 Pro and 13" Macbook Air M3 are the same price with the same configuration (16GB memory, 512GB SSD). Between the two, which one would you recommend more?
Agreed it is not only my favorite laptop ... I think it's the best laptop EVER designed. In the future I will replace my M1 Mac mini AND my M2 MacBook Air ... with a new Air and just have the one Mac from now on. As you said, you can plug it into multiple monitors and you have a true desktop class setup.
Considering it took three generations to get there, it seems weird. But considering it’s basically a beefed up iPhone chip, I think the baseline M3 in this Air does quite a good job of handling two high resolution monitors. Better some than none, and better late than never, I guess.
@@mts.camilosorry, but I cannot agree with you. Apple should not be excused of some basic things, given it sells these devices at quite the price...and so it must compete with the space it is in. laptops have supported multi monitors since the age of dinasours. And now apple fans rejoice that apple is offering a half baked feature? Sorry, but apple fans are either low self esteem or a bit soft in the head.
I am a graduate student and most of the time I do tons of papers, worksheets, extensive research and some video or audio visual presentations (using Final Cut pro) and photo editing. Which RAM should I get, 16 or 24 GB? with your recommended RAM, I am hoping that the M3 MacBook Air won’t overheat or throttle with the work that I do.
I read all of that. I know most people don't but you might just need to read it all. I just got mine and I am obsessed. For it being sort of big it is light.The sound quality is amazing. I was watching a movie and had to turn it down. I am pretty impressed with the keyboard. I will definitely never ever buy another laptop.
Surely you can still just use displaylink for more displays, I have 4 displays on my m2 Mac mini, 1 hdmi, 1 usb c-> dp and usb ->dual 4K displaylink adapter , this gives me 3 1440p displays and a 4K tv, all runs great
Let me start this off by mentionning that I am a Macstudio users so not "anti apple". To be clear, you can use dual monitor in clamshell mode which means needing an external mouse/keyboard/trackpad/keyboard, whatever is your preference? Well that would be great if you already have those things, but if not, then off to the shop we go.£1499 for your spec plus another £250 for mouse and keyboard or £300 for mouse and trackpad thing. So £1749 or £1799 and for £100 more you get the MacBook pro base level with its 16GB. Granted it is a little bigger and weighty as a result. But much better screen, more IO and can you connect two externals in additional to your open laptop? I am not a Mac laptop user so maybe I don't get. it My brute of a windows laptop that I use weighs a ton and lasts for about as long as it took for me to type this, but I still lugged it and its 17" screen around. I guess what I am asking is why, once you have specced the Air up and have to have all the externals for the dual monitor, would you not buy the base pro and upgraded RAMM? And this is a genuine question by the way.
I bought a macbook air in 2020, 2 weeks before the m1 came out. So I am considering the new m3 and I think it might be some kind of improvement from the intel one.
dual monitors meaning you can't use the built in display, and then extend to two additional monitors correct? so you are still limited to 2 screens for work?
I owned an m2 air in midnight and upgraded to an m3 pro in black and I find the smudging to be only marginally better when it comes to the black. I also ended up keeping the dual 35watt charger and including the 70watt one with the air when I old it. The 35 i still fine for the pro, especially in my use case. Mostly upgraded because the 8gb I got in the air just wasn't cutting it and I managed to find a great deal on the m3pro.. Otherwise, the air would have been fine and I do still miss the lighter machine. But beyond the ram, the extra upgrades that come with the pro are definitely welcome and appreciated. Especially the HDMI port, card reader and the C port on the right. I use the magsafe to charge 95% of the time though.. Generally not a fan of C as a charge port. Not since my 12" macbook from 2015.. Used that machine up until getting the m2 air though and holy hell was that a significant upgrade, lol!
Hey Gary long time not chat! Hope you and your family are doing well. Thanks for the video I have the M2 and I'm wondering if getting an M3 would be worth it. Cheers.
It's a great option for college students and light GPU needs professionals with 16GB of RAM. Same for the M2 Air with 16GB of RAM. The M1 Air is the new laptop for middle school and high school students.
Is the dual monitor issue solely a MacBook Air problem? Like, does the MacBook Pro allow for dual monitors when the lid is closed? Is this just a laptop with Apple Silicon issue? I've been running a dual 4k monitor setup for years with my 2019 15" MacBook Pro (Intel i9) - yes with the lid closed.
It’s an M series chip issue I believe they upsold the M3 pro with 2 monitor support, then this week added a software patch to add it to M3 pros that originally didn’t support it. Bit shitty if you ask me
Its a “base m chip” issue. The way apple designed the lowest level chip, theres only enough controller support on the base m chips to use 2 screens for display. On the pro and max level chips, apple adds more display controllers to allow users to have more external displays with or without clam shell mode. Its been this way ever since the m1 family of chips.
Nice video Gary. You are right the two monitor capability is a BIG deal but why would Apple force us to close the laptop to get the second monitor working? Kind of irritating. Question: Can the M3 MBA use a 49" monitor with 5120 x 1440 resolution? How about two 49" monitors? (I can't find an answer to this). Thanks!
Gary, do you have Civ6? I would love to see how you think it runs on the new M3 Air. That’s literally the only thing that will get me to upgrade from the M1 Air.
Only drawback I see is the cost to upgrade memory - upgrading from the 8 Gig to 16 is 20% of the cost of the laptop which is ridiculous - considering the very small performance bump it makes the older model a better value unless second monitor support is a deal breaker (something the Intel version still does better).
Nice video, as usual. Thank you for the input. Btw, I'm still using the 2021 Asus ROG G14 that you recommended buying, but I got the base model. It's actually still good, except for the freezing issues. It's tempting to upgrade to the M3 Air 13" or 15", but maybe next year. :D
I feel like nobody is talking about the fact that the previous Intel MacBook Airs (2018, 2019) had support for dual external displays. This isn't a new feature for the Air, it's just Apple returning what they taketh away back in 2020.
True but the M1 was so revolutionary in terms of battery life and everything that it was worth the loss to me. But since i run on an external monitor often and love it, I cant wait to maybe run it on two. So m3 would be a worthy upgrade to me for that purpose since I can hand down the m1 to my school age kids.
Dual external monitor question. Did you use one cable to a monitor and daisy chain to the 2nd or 2 monitor cables to 2 monitors. Cause on the video it looked like the former.
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Feel that content creators might be using two monitors. Normals one monitor, and one application that they live in most of the time. Sit inside RU-vid watching your clips.
Get an M2 for sure. They’re already decently discounted and that’s only gonna get better as stores start trying to unload their old stock. I got my 15” MBA from BB last weekend for $999!!! If you don’t care about dual external display support the M2 is really the same laptop, just 20% slower which you won’t notice (unless you’re gaming, in which case you should be looking at the new Pros anyway).
WOAH!!! 2 DISPALYS!?!?! That's crazy man :P But in all seriousness I'm glad Apple fanboys can now do what any windows laptop could do for the past 20 years.
I'm sorry but this video is just so inaccurate and full of mismatches. For a start the only use case for M3 is photo editing, unless you buy the Pro's with active cooling and even then they are still far slower than their windows counterparts and by a long way not to mention the price difference! The time taken to encode or process video is almost 4 times as slow as their leading competitor, this is why apple only compares to its last gen. This leads me to the first mismatch, why would you use an apple with monitors designed for gaming? The colour accuracy and grading will be wrong, something like an apple or dell monitor is the only thing that should be paired professionally. Instead of buying 3 cheap monitors, 1 good one with the laptop providing the 2nd would yield far better results for editing. The only two selling points which Apple has left is build quality and unique software. The latter being more of an annoyance than an actual advantage. I just don't get why people keep promoting them, any tech channel worth their salt have tested them and come to this conclusion. They have very limited use cases and for the average user, ie one which isn't locked into the Apple Ecosystem due to their training should get a Windows or Linux machine. This is why the uploader didn't test any of the performance as it would clearly show that it doesn't live up to its hype. I could take an Apple from 12 years ago and say all the same things about build quality, keyboard etc but the core of this video was supposed to be the M3 not the shiny aluminium.
