I thought education price need valid education email for verify purpose?
That what I buy my iPad Air few years ago when I study in university

It's always interesting to see a transition from one tech to another. Before it was powerPC to intel x86... Now this.

Can't wait to see the benchmarks and user reviews. Right now I am unable to see how an arm SOC can beat x86 + Radeon gpu.

offered same proc with MBP so better i go for new MBA

Mine from 2011 Macbook Air 11-inch end of 2011. Changed battery last year due to kaput already. Otherwise, still standing strong. Probably will change next year, give it a rest and store in the muzium

8-core GPU, what should we expect here? are we expecting the video editing process is better than previous MBA? previous MBA gets a lot of bad comments regarding video processing.

5X faster graphics performance according to Apple. Of course have to wait for reviews to see real life performance.

Looking forward for company next year refresh exercise for changing this version of MBA.

Does Apple now verify education purchases?

Last time I bought an iMac, langsung takda verification. Just order online as usual and couple days later arrived.

No verify. Just buy only. Recently bought iPad Air via education price using my normal email. No knocking on door.

how come m1 macbook air is fanless but not m1 macbook pro?

The MBP is targeted for pro-user, they will need a laptop capable of doing high workload task like compiling programs, rendering videos etc.

These types of workloads demands for a powerful chip. To achieve this, the MBP needs to have a higher thermal budget to work with and with that, it is capable of ramping up to a higher clock speed and the ability to sustain peak performance consistently for a long period.

I believe the MBA will bursts out its peak performance only for a short period of time and throttle afterwards, otherwise the heat will start to build up.

This post has been edited by NubPro: Nov 11 2020, 11:58 PM

I thought they mention that it doesnt need fans... then mbp comes with a fan. Dont know if it will be the same story as previous gen MBA. Poor thermal performance despite having the new 10th gen intel compared to MBP.

When they talked about the Air, fanless and completely silent is one of the cool new features they promoted.
Then when it comes to the Pro, an active cooling solution now becomes their selling point.
Win liao loh.

BTW,
Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro

This post has been edited by stargazhe: Nov 12 2020, 12:24 PM

So who's looking to get one?

Was looking to get a Dell XPS 13 but this MBA is looking good as well. The stellar battery life is really enticing me. Despite the slightly larger footprint and b e z e l s on the MBA compared to the XPS 13, I'm willing to deal with it as a tradeoff for the battery life and hopefully the performance matches up. Hopefully the performance isn't too bad with thermal throttling. Will wait for reviews.

Yes, no verified at all, as mentioned by other, basically everyone can purchase.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/11/m1-mac...medium=webfeeds

If the data were true, just go ahead buy the MBA.

Looks good.

Just hope MacBook Air won’t have desolder issue like the old MacBook 12’, even low spec celeron laptop w/o fan have this issue after long time

If you are looking to dual boot to windows, this arm Mac will not be able to.
But if your task is just web browsing and writing docs , then even the iPad will do.
But if you are used to apple’s app, then yeah this is a good buy since there is not much word of support from developers on this arm Mac yet

Based on my experience on iPad Pro, i think m1 chip can solve the thermal issue at all.