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M1 MacBook Air Honest Review in 2024! STILL Worth Buying?

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  1. After watching and re-watching a lot of comparisons on YouTube about the M1 and M2 MBA. After being on the way to buy the M2 I have decided to buy the M1. The design, Mac Safe and a brighter screen are not enough to justify 200€ more. The M1 series killed the game they were so powerful that the upgrade to the M2 is a waste of money. As an artist if my needs are more important than I will upgrade to the M3 MBP. The M1 remains one of the best laptops ever made period.

  2. Literally just bought one off eBay with box and everything included for $500 wasn’t paying more for it and didn’t see a reason to get a base model M2 especially with the overheating for the M2 that performance difference is a bit misleading for certain tasks definitely will wait & purchase a 14in MBP soon instead of upgrading to another air

  3. This isn't at all convincing to NOT get an M1 Macbook Air. In fact it convinced me it's a great machine that would be perfect for my girlfriend. Yes, of course the new laptops with more advanced tech are going to be better. Duh. I'll never understand the compulsion people have to always have the newest thing and immediately discard something "old" just because it wasn't released 5 minutes ago.

  4. Personally, I would recommend M1 macbook air. I got mine with 16gigs of ram and it still runs flawlessly for average everyday use. I work 8 hrs a day sometimes more but the battery never runs dry. For web surfing, youtube, and/or word processing, my M1 still works outstanding. If the foregoing are your usual tasks, you do not the M2.

  5. Bought myself one Macbook Air M1, one of the best decisions I've ever made. Just came back from a 5 days 4 nights trip, doing work on the go each night for 1-3 hours and I didn't charge for a single time throughout my whole trip. It's insanely good and I don't remember having such experience with Windows laptops. Couldn't go back to Windows laptops now.

  11. purchased September 2023 for $665 (CPO) and then upgraded the SSD to 2TB for $245 (Chinese technician at local repair shop soldered the storage chip with new ones), now it's my dream mobile workhorse TBH, very snappy, fast CPU, fast storage, excellent keyboard, excellent speaker and mic, cool to the lap, very long battery life, ready anytime, spacious (after storage upgrade), high performance. I can multitask flawlessly between Sketchup for 3D modelling, word/image processing, presentation, browsing, etc. I think If you use this for work – Macbook Air m1 will still be a good choice even on 2026 or more "maybe until it's not getting major OS updates with significant/special mandatory features".

  18. I had the M2 Air, went for it just because it is a way more updated machine and it just looks better with better specs. The M1 Air is the performance leap from Intel, the M2 Air is a total redesign and hardware update

  19. Where can you get an M2 for $899? Unless we’re talkin refurbished that’s not accurate and sort of undermines the price point argument for M2 over M1. Unless I’m mistaken, which I’d be more than fine with..

  23. I bought an M1 MBA in Nov 2020 and as a tech enthusiast I just have to say I hate how good it still is because I can’t justify upgrading and the M3 Pro MBP looks so nice and it’s on sale but I know it won’t do much better in my relatively light workflow than the M1 MBA 😂

  27. No windows laptop (even any 16GB RAM one) in 2024 still can provide all of below:
    1) 15 hrs battery backup
    2) Super quick memory efficient performance
    3) low wattage
    4) 2.5k screen
    5) metal body
    6) durable

    Base 8GB model m1air from 2020 can do all above.
    And thus is still highly recommended

  30. I got mine for $750. Does everything I want a laptop/secondary machine to do. amazing display, snappy OS, one of the best laptop keyboards on the market, and actually usable speakers.

    IMO it's the best sub $800 laptop on the market.

    oh, and the bezels STILL aren't worth an extra $350

  35. U are comparing some SO irrelevant things, like wifi specs, battery (for 4 year tech), screen bezels, webcam etc. Talk about every day use, does it lags, does it bugs, does it needs an upgrade or not. I think not, since u haven’t come up with a real reason why not to buy this in 2024😃

  38. I got the M2 air 3 years after my M1 air and gave it back after one week. Battery is the same, daily Work was no where faster, it is heavier, and has not the wedge. The bezels I do not care about, I did not like the notch, only thing was, that it was brighter but when you make it bright, the battery drained much quicker. Mag safe is ok but as I travel without charger during the day, there is no difference.
    Main reason to give it back and stay with my M1 where the SSD. Transferring files was MUCH slower. I work with an external SSD (a must with only 256GB) and a 15-20GB file took nearly twice as long on the M2. Apple said to get the 512GB version, then you get full speed but hey, then it is another 200 more? WTF?
    So no. I payed $900 at launch, today I get $500 used (insane) and the upgrade with 512GB would cost me at lest $700-900 on top.. For what when you have a perfectly good working laptop?
    I never used the webcam, the sound is great (using mostly headphones anyway) and the two facetime calls I had in over 3 years I used my iPhone cam, very good quality.
    Oh, just did a speed test (Ookla) on my GB internet fiber and I get on 5Ghz 890Mbits down and 820Mbits up, no complains with 38 devices on the network.
    Intel to M1 was a leap, you noticed and it really hit you. M2 and M3 have faster benchmarks but really, I do not see why to pay that much for better performance one can only measure but not feel. Btw, you forgot to mention that you get the M1 refurbished with warranty at Amazon for as little as $550. For that money your "compromises" become quite tolerable. I can get the M1 Air AND a Mac mini for two screens for less then one M2 Air.

  40. This channel is just one of many that exist to influence people to keep buying newer tech products even though what they already own meet all of their current needs. I'm glad I checked it out again after not visiting for a long time. . . Now I have one less YouTube channel bookmarked.

  41. i'm "upgrading" from a still fully functional 2011 MBP, as so much software is no longer supported on "High Sierra" ha. just got one for $500 & hoping to squeeze another decade+ out of this one.