I was looking to find a new M2 MBA 15in (16/256) when I found this on Amazon. What was surprising was that with AppleCare+ (3 years) added it was only $1438.99 compared to $1499 without it. It states also that it is shipped and sold through Amazon.com. Is there any reason for me to worry or does this seem legit?
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Bestbuy is selling the m2 14" MBP with 16gbs of ram and 512 gbs of storage for about the same price
Hard drive space too little. Go with 1T or 2T minimum
Best buy has the 512gb and 16gb ram version for 1450 or 1400 if u have best buy + . And they usually give 25% more for trade in too compared to Apple for old laptop or MacBook .
Can you please share the link? I’m also looking to get one.
256 gb is basically phone level storage. Pretty shitty deal. Equivalent windows laptop could be had for 400$ but build quality is obviously not aluminum.
Yes, only because of the RAM
This is M1 Pro money tbh
Nope. Checkout this deal. M2 Pro with same configuration and same price. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-macbook-pro-14-laptop-m2-pro-chip-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-space-gray/6455369.p?skuId=6455369
Edit: Better Storage Option Actually. (But, no apple care)
No; theyve had 16, 512 for that price recently
Where ? Everywhere I looked is way more than that
But prolly without apple care+.
But 256gb speed is like hdd
lol no
Lol yes, airs with 256gb has slower disks than 512gb versions
M2 MBA gets over 1500 MB/s read/write on 256GB
A 7200rpm HDD is always under 200 MB/s
So no, more than 7x faster is not comparable
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/23220299/apple-macbook-air-m2-slow-ssd-read-write-speeds-testing-benchmark
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/what-is-a-good-or-normal-read-write-speed-for-a-hdd.2822841/
Nothing like HDD though.
16GB 256GB for $1400 lmao. How 16GB and at least 1TB isn’t the standard is beyond me. Pure corrupt practices. Pure corruption.
I just got a 16" 16gb 1tb Intel i7 with 360 flip for 1.2k cad, the price is insane for apple, like Microsoft surface pro insane but it’s for a target market so it makes sense
In regard to OPs question, not really, you can bag 16/512 for that money