New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Apple Store advised (my mom) M3 MacBook Air over the M2. Ideas/Advice?
Ask HN: Apple Store advised (my mom) M3 MacBook Air over the M2. Ideas/Advice?
2 by calf | 4 comments on Hacker News.
An Apple Store salesperson today recommended the new M3 MacBook Airs to my mother, because "The M3 MacBook Air will last longer than the M2". So how true is that? This salesperson has brilliantly/unwittingly struck at my mother's pet peeve, since her previous 2011 MacBook with outdated Safari and Chrome can no longer display online banking webpages properly. I'd think that the M2 and M3 being the same family would still have roughly the same long-term lifespans, for the sort of light home-office work of the sort my mom needs at least 5+ years. Is the M3 really more future-proof as the Apple Store salesperson claims? The other issue I have is the small nonupgradable 8 GB memories in both base models. Curiously, the base models are $100 different, but the M2 + 16 GB upgrade costs even more than the base M3. Maybe the pricing will change again in a few months, but my mom needs a replacement computer this month!
2 by calf | 4 comments on Hacker News.
An Apple Store salesperson today recommended the new M3 MacBook Airs to my mother, because "The M3 MacBook Air will last longer than the M2". So how true is that? This salesperson has brilliantly/unwittingly struck at my mother's pet peeve, since her previous 2011 MacBook with outdated Safari and Chrome can no longer display online banking webpages properly. I'd think that the M2 and M3 being the same family would still have roughly the same long-term lifespans, for the sort of light home-office work of the sort my mom needs at least 5+ years. Is the M3 really more future-proof as the Apple Store salesperson claims? The other issue I have is the small nonupgradable 8 GB memories in both base models. Curiously, the base models are $100 different, but the M2 + 16 GB upgrade costs even more than the base M3. Maybe the pricing will change again in a few months, but my mom needs a replacement computer this month!
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