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Will be a special order yes. Macshack lists all the different configurations neatly with pricing, so at least one can compare and decide what configuration will fit in your budget.
The Core i7’s (majority 16GB) are still decent, but yeah, i5’s (majority 8GB) which you’re probably referring to are rather long in the tooth now… Even web browsing is a bit slow on my 2015 13” Retina which is even running older/faster Mojave.
Lol apart from having no fan and running dead cool, much better performance and running the latest software without using hacks not to mention the battery life.
M1 MBAs run cool because they're thermal throttled. The harder you push it the slower it becomes.
The thermal shim mod?
That's the one. Picked up a couple pads from Kloppers and it was well worth it.
Cool. I didn't know Kloppers sold them.
The USBC thing is annoying. My current machine has 4 of them, and all are faulty to some degree. The power delivery on all of them has all but failed, so most peripherals don't work. My wireless keyboard for example has absolutely no range when connected into the macbook because of the aforementione issue.
How do you damage four usb c ports? They seem pretty robust compared to the previous iterations.
USB ports are fine, it is the controller that is f__ked.
NO reason? Does very little? eish, I think you must return your faulty M1 MBA to wherever you bought it from.
/plays candycrush
Have you tested your battery life yet? I'm particularly interested in how long it lasts when video conferencing with four participants. My MBA M1 would last forever with general use, but video conferencing would kill the battery, from 100% to 20% in just over two hours.
i got the 14" 32gb/512gb m2 in march. i used to be on an 8th gen i7 dell and the difference is HUGE! for more than two weeks i've been boring my wife with stories like "it's so much faster" (loads faster, especially when on battery, as the dell limits the cpu to under 2ghz), "i don't even need a charger for the entire day" (dell lasts less than an hour, and when new, lasted under 2hours), "it's so quiet" (dell would hit the fans on full power all day when i only used two vscodes, firefox, firefox dev, one sql docker instance and running the dotnet backend and vue frontend from the terminal. so far i don't even know if my mac has ever used fans for the same workflow).
