Gosh, i still have 3-4 weeks to wait before i can lay my hand on this device. Growing more and more impatient everyday.

BTW, i got question to check with people who have landed their hand on one.
How's the initial setup via Time Machine recovery from older Intel based Mac?
Was all the data transition successful without bugs? Or if there's any pls share a bit to help enlighten.
How about applications that are not supported? When launching it, what's the experience you get?

Ya man, i feel you. Mine ordered 12.12, the stated delivery is 13-20 January. Same lo, accessories all arrived, but the main thing still “Processing”.

My MBA 2013 never shutdown since day-1 unbox. Only close the lid. Been 7.5years, never had a problem. I’ll restart occasionally though.

Mac Mini also have better air spaces in the box, so probably better heat dissipations compares to MBA that’s cramped in this shell.

Debit card usually takes longer time, approximately 2-3 weeks. This is not because Apple did not trigger your refund, but rather, its due to interbank processes. Credit Card on the other hand is much smoother because the fund was only verified without actual charges in advance through the Visa, Mastercard or any other credit companies, hence the refund process can be much faster.

This post has been edited by eikozai: Dec 28 2020, 10:22 PM

DHL = Deliver Halfway Lost

You’re lucky you lost the tracking only, not the parcel 😂

My BTO order just get charged on my CC moment ago, hope the status will be updated soon from Processing to Preparing to Ship by tomorrow.

I placed order same day as u, but my delivery date ranged from 13/1/2021 - 20/1/2021 leh..

btw, u got get special price from this order?

Yea, this is getting weird. Apple messed with delivery dates. See below screenshot, the weeks and actual date dont tally also.
But Apple give me extra discounts though.



This post has been edited by eikozai: Dec 30 2020, 02:21 AM

Delivery date screwed lo.. Really wait until hair also turned white.

Same here. Same ship same batch with u.
My Delivery Date is 13th Jan ~ 20th Jan

This post has been edited by eikozai: Dec 31 2020, 09:43 PM

But i placed my order on 12.12 bro. Its a long mental torture wait.

Nice weh.. im so jealous ady right now 😂 Mine should be delivered by next weekend if everything goes smoothly. Another week of waiting~

Finally got my MBA this evening after 23 days of waiting.. this morning it reached Subang Airport then subsequently on 2Pm i received Apple iMessage informing it will be delivered today. Was expecting the delivery will fall on tomorrow or Thursday.

Havent got the chance to toy with it coz jus unbox it after dinner and its waiting to be started up with Time Machine restoration. Doing latest backup from older brother now into Time Capsule. Slow.

P/S:

Wanna check with you guys, what version MacOS did your MBA shipped with? Mine is still under 11.0.1 when i received it. Very rare Apple did not shipped their product with latest OS, and this 11.1 have been around for quite some time.



This post has been edited by eikozai: Jan 5 2021, 11:54 PM

MBA get speed throttle once the heats built up inside. Better for u to go for Pro series, since Dota2 is quite graphic intensive.

This post has been edited by eikozai: Jan 9 2021, 10:27 PM

Yes, base model is sufficient for these light usage. Its a very capable machine despite categorized as entry level Mac. You need to guide him to use Mac if he havent use before, as there’s a learning curve that he need to adapt.

This thing really power efficient. Been running on full battery from morning until late evening off work, 9 hours of productivity, yet by end of the day still got 30% juice.

Another thing is, running Windows 10 on Parallel Desktop is pretty stable. Installed it for 2 applications though, which is built only for Windows, but i need it for my work.

Check your setting under System Preference > Keyboard.
So far my side didnt encountered any problem, maybe because i preset it to do nothing other than being a Function (fn) key.

Im user of PD+W10. Currently the only supported version are Preview version where you can download for FREE. So far i have 2 essentials apps under W10, and both run smoothly, havent experience any crash or lagness. MBA do start to feel warmer, but still feel much cooler than Intel MBA. I can’t promise the apps your wife gonna use will have the same experience as me, since its a Preview version from both PD and W10, so bugs or instability are expected.

I highly recommend go for 16GB Ram if you wish to keep the device for years to come. Apps are getting more and more memory hungry everyday. To top this, current M1 Macs utilizing Swap Memory where it used your SSD as RAM, shall your RAM have no sufficient freed memory. You can google the pros and cons on this, but best decision is to maxed out RAM, if financially allowed.

Storage size is very subjective, depend on users. It made no difference on performance for lower or higher storage size. Get any options you find suitable.

This post has been edited by eikozai: Jan 12 2021, 09:34 AM

Almost same delivery as website. 2-3 weeks, +1 more buffer week for Switch internal processes.

I get mine 8 days earlier than the earliest date given during my purchase.
Guess its because some people will cancel the Online Order after purchase it from somewhere, then it will move u up in the queue.