In the case of Microsoft (Apple won't be far off), they will ask for either: your student email (the one ended with edu.my for Malaysia) or a scanned copy of student ID, both you can't bulls#t.

In fact, Microsoft has a list of recognized universities, if they want to , they can call the university and check the student ID. Just stating the fact of what they usually do, there are many ways to cheat if you really want to, but please don't abuse the system.

Air 2 and mini 3 demo set are available in store now but no stock yet.

Saw it in both machine and iconnect.

Suggest you to try it at the store, feel is very subjective, also affected by the SP we are using, to me Air 2 is better, maybe just placebo.