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The Great, the Good and the Ugly Apple Air Week
The Apple announcements this week were overall great news. Any year we get speed bumps updates, rather than forgotten devices works for me.
Pair the basically perfect current MacBook Air with the M4 processor, and then also lower the price. Thatās a great machine right there. While I still dream of a 12-inch device, this 13-inch MacBook Air is deliciously easy to recommend.
The iPad Air, on the other hand, is starting to not be the best bang for the buck. If the MacBook Air punches above its weight price-wise, the iPad Air misses the mark, and itās actually the plain iPad the one that becomes easier to recommend.
I donāt have a strong opinion on the Mac Studio, other than being happy that it doesnāt remain a product in the Appleās line-up.
If thereās one complaint for me about this weekās announcement, itās the iPad Air keyboard. Although a iPad Pro-style keyboard is great news, the $269 price and the fact that itās only available in white makes it unrecommendableāāāhence the ugly.
Personally, I think Iām going get an updated Air to upgrade my joby-job M2 MacBook Air. I also see a MacBook Air in Robieās future, as heās developing more in Swift and the 2014 MacBook Pro heās using is borderline unworkable now. Iām hoping to convince him that weāll be able to get a spec-ed out M3 or M2 for a better price.
What should you get?
MacBook: If you have any MacBook intel laptop, the new M4 MacBook is an excelente upgrade. If your M1 version is feeling slow, of you use multiple screen, itās also a great year to update.
iPad: Iāll be keeping an eye on iPad Air M2 prices. Unless the new keyboard is something you really wantāāāa well kept M2 at $450 sounds like a better option.