The Inconvenient Truth About New Laptops

Thoughts on New 2024 Laptops

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[DaveD]

i can't believe apple changed their base ram from 8gb to 16gb as i was making this video lol

[broderick]

literally as of this week Apple’s latest laptops start at 16GB of RAM

[XiaoPangZi]

I wish Dave2D would make a wallpaper app

[streitkrafte]

So nice to watch a YT video these days without unnecessary background music. Kudos.

[SANGI]

What’s crazy is the fact that Apple would not have increased the RAM if LLMs and AI hadn’t taken off and become a standard in tech.

[alpacamale]

Battery life is a game changer. Treating your laptop like you treat your phone is a dream come true. I hate plugging and unplugging the power cord just to maintain my laptop's battery health.

[TheIndulgers]

I have the OG base M1 Air from 2020. Literally the best electronics purchase I’ve ever made. $900 and 4 years later still runs like new. Superb build quality, snappy, and still better battery life and standby than most other laptops out there.

Amazing.

[MyReviews_FOSS]

"copilot is just a scam". That was gold. 😂

[robxlove]

I love that your videos are so short in comparison. Concise and precise

[elliottharris]

It's crazy how good of a deal the M1 air has been since it launched in 2020. I still remember making a spreadsheet of some of the most popular and highly recommended windows laptops at the time and comparing price to performance. Having the MacBook as the definitive winner was so insane. I bought one and never regretted it.

[AZisk]

dave forgot to publish this 2 days ago. welcome back !

[srikard]

Smartphone market saturated, laptop market saturated. Tech companies will have tough time in future.

[NXaiUL]

The M1 MBA has rattled the laptop market in India.

Never before has been an Apple device so accessible and so bang-for-buck for the average buyer.

[CeLillyMusic]

I would LOVE to see a new overview about all the laptops on the market in different budget categories from you!

[voirvibes]

skip to 7:30 for the inconvenient truth, it's the price

[Alex-hvir]

I bought my 8GB M1 MBA 4 years ago and i'm totally fine with it. I've bought it for 999€ discounted from 1299€ a few months after release and - games a part - is holding up REALLY well. It honestly feels like it's a 2024 device. Used basically everyday for productivity, gaming, casual use and i still have "all day battery life" and performance is honestly more than enough for what i do. Now i even get apple intelligence, which imo is a pretty big update; not quite groundbreaking but almost there.

[Jenny_Digital]

Taking away replaceable internal storage is the most disappointing thing laptop makers are doing, and this is going to lead to tragic levels of unnecessary e-waste.

[Victor-rxkh]

It has been always like this, when a key innovation is out, patience is what needed to have it at affordable price!

I'm still running a MBP 2012 (at a time it was upgradable) and it works like a charm!

Only now, 13 years after, I decided to go for Apple M series, I have too much software compatibility problems with my old system!

[TumbleFig]

I'm a Mac and PC user. I have a 16" MacBook Pro and a desktop PC I built. I'm SO GLAD the PC space has finally caught up with Macs in energy efficiency and, for the most part, hardware. I still think the trackpads mostly aren't nearly as good, but they at least went from unacceptable to decent. The landscape improved so much in the past couple years. I hope Apple feels the pressure. They just fixed the baseline RAM. Next they need to fix the baseline SSD and adopt OLED.

I hope they also make their RAM and SSD upgrade prices less ridiculous, but let's be real, they won't do that.

[speechruin]

you highlight it here but man, the total silence and battery drain when not in use has made me absolutely fall in love with the current crop of macbook air models. I use a 15" and its kind of amazing to use compared to laptops I have used over the last 20 years, it feels like magic.