12-01-2021, 06:04 AM
C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=sekker]
[quote=C(-)ris]
[quote=jdc]
Leader!
Sorry about the price -- I had 3 friends/clients/peeps sitting on the fence but they got in the $1700 deal from 2 weeks ago.
A few more bicep curls and the weight will feel like nothing. =)
I'm not particularly concerned about what I paid for this one. However, I'd like to buy about 400 more of them to replace the rest of our MacBook Air fleet, but $2000 per laptop or even $1700 is prohibitive. Probably going to have to wait at least another year or take the performance and value hit on the M1 Air.
I have a 14" MBP on order to do this similar comparison. But I'm leaning towards getting 16/1TB MBAs due to the true all-day battery life.
Are you seeing a value in the 16GB models vs the 8GB? I've been looking at my users usage and very few seem to use more than 8GB of ram. CPU and GPU? Zoom and Airplay max those out consistently.
Scientific use - at least some of the time suggests the $$ on RaM is well-spent. These will also be in use for 5 years or more.