afaik, the SSD is not self upgradable either. its soldered together with the SOC & the other components.

I also thought it may be but my current laptop is also a 256GB albeit Windows. So I can't compare what will 256GB feel like in terms of untouchable storage for the OS. But 256gb feels comfy for me so far. My stuff is mostly backed onto a cloud anyways; both personal & work.

Seems for MBA ITworld offering additional Shield Care of 1 year on top of existing warranty. Is it worth? Can this retailer be trusted compared to the other premium ones? Sorry 1st time Mac buyer so not familiar with navigating new product releases.

Multiple retailers also now accepting pre-orders. Machines, Switch & Mac City too.

So far

ItWorld
Senheng
Senq
Switch
Mac City (ran out of some colours I think?)
Machines

You pay a deposit online first then select the store you want to collect at. I have not tried my luck to see if you can do the same in a physical store but I didn't wanna risk anything so bought from Apple directly too. 1st Mac purchase & don't want to have a bad experience lol

No you can't. There's only 2 usb c ports with thunderbolt. Just get a mouse that connects via bluetooth.

Usb c to hdmi.

Better solution is to get thunderbolt + dock if you have lots of peripherals. I might just get the attachable one because most I want minimal dongles as possible.

its a USB C head yes, but it is simply rated for thunderbolt. You probably can buy a USB C to HDMI but I am not 100% sure about the performance degrade. I am looking to get a hub anyways since its 12.12 and I need something that can bring around too for mobility purpose.

where did you hear this news though? its why I also ordered on the same preorders were opened.

Received an SMS from Apple. They've shipped out my Macbook Air M1. It will arrive by 17/12.

Received mine too. Ups tracked it went to 3 different countries before arriving here lol

ah great.. am now a victim of the bluetooth inconsistency issue. my bluetooth keyboard is detected but cannot work.

So took it out yesterday for a field test. Left the house with a near full charge because I left it on sleep throughout the night.

8.5hours of screen time & 48% to spare. Only ran Chrome, lots of social apps & productivity usuals. Damn this battery life is amazing.

Though not so happy about the bugs, there are some clear issues trying to play Dota 2 properly. Voice would normally get cut & audio flips to headset quality though I suspect has something to do with the Bliuetooth.

I didn't wanna try full gaming but it would heat up. Don't feel the performance throttle as much but it does get uncomfortably warm. Also I bought this as productivity machine to force myself to game less haha. So can't really comment. Safer to get MBP if you wanna play some AAA titles.

Bear in mind that's heat only when I game. Even running 20 tabs on 2 different chrome profiles with loads of other stuff in the background it didn't heat up & was ice cold.

Expect some warmth when you are running programs on Rosetta 2. I'm still satisfied. This is an incredible machine for on the go.

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So I just got a free 1 year subscription of Apple TV+ from purchasing the MBA. Anyone else got it? is the subscription really useful?

I bought a baseus dock that occupies both the USB-C but gives me PD. do kinda regret because the HDMI is at 30Hz. you can get Ugreen instead, cheaper.

Get a cloud subscription. You'll learn better to not store anything remotely important locally lol

Zoom was recently optimised for ARM according to some news. May want to check you are using the correct version?

Or set it to low reso. I managed to run Dota 2 but that also is buggy. Then again, I'm sure all of us bought this with the intention to be productivity geeks haha.

btw, anyone here got a recommendation for privacy film? The one I saw on Lazada for Nilkin brand damn exp but wanted to know if its worth it.
Need it because I work from outside quite often.

What kind of situation you are in where you need a separate ON button which is an additional step?

if you really want, you can google it but all methods require the usage of terminal.

if you aren't already familiar with cmd on windows, you'd better skip it & get used to the apple ecosystem

This post has been edited by frostbyte13: Jan 5 2021, 10:31 AM