Macworld’s buying advice: Previous MacBook Air generations were thought of as niche laptops. All come with flash storage and Intel HD Graphics 3000. (You may be able to find a refurbished MacBook at the online Apple Store, if you really want one.)Ĭonfigurations: There are four MacBook Airs: two 11-inch models and two 13-inch models.
Apple’s lowest-priced laptop is now the 11-inch 1.6GHz Core i5 MacBook Air ( ) with 64GB of flash storage. When Apple discontinued the MacBook in July, the company thrust the MacBook Air into a new role. You can either get the proper adapters to connect FireWire, eSATA, USB 3.0, or other devices to the Thunderbolt port, or you can get Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, which serves as a connectivity dock for the laptop. Past MacBook Air models had only USB 2.0 connectivity Thunderbolt gives the 2011 MacBook Air a high-speed connector, and widens the range of peripherals you can use. The 2011 models’ key new feature is the Thunderbolt port. With some older games, however, the current models may suffer a hit in graphics performance.
Macworld Lab found that the 2011 MacBook Air models are at least 1.5 times as fast as last year’s 11-inch MacBook Air with a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor. Although with Apple already promising news of an Apple silicon-powered Mac Pro coming in the near future, it’s possible we’ll get a new champion for an even more expensive Mac computer soon.The 2011 MacBook Air line uses Intel dual-core Core i5 processors, a vast improvement over the Core 2 Duo processors used in previous models. That said, you’re still coming out way ahead of Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro model, which costs $53,799 for a fully specced model (not counting Apple’s absurdly expensive $4,999 Pro Display XDR and its $1,000 stand). (That doesn’t factor in the optional, height- and tilt-adjustable stands for those monitors, either, which cost $400 a pop, or the nano-coated texture for $300 each.) You could also add a fifth display to connect through HDMI, although Apple doesn’t make one of those, so you’ll have to turn to a different company for that. That adds $199 for a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, $149 for a Magic Trackpad, and $1,599 for a matching Studio Display (which Apple announced alongside the Mac Studio), putting our total at $9,947.Įxcept the Mac Studio can support up to four Studio Displays at one time, so you’ll probably want to add in another three monitors (which are, again, $1,599 each), which makes our new tally $14,744.
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That price still doesn’t factor in software (like Final Cut Pro or Logic Pro, which Apple will bundle in for $299.99 or $199.99, respectively) or accessories (like a mouse, keyboard, or a monitor).įor argument’s sake, let’s say you want the complete Apple hardware package, though. The bulk of the added price tag comes from SSD storage, though, which starts at 1TB for the base model but rises fast with the 2TB ($400 more), 4TB ($1,000 more), or 8TB ($2,200 more) options.Īdd in everything, and you’ll get the maximum $7,999 price - more expensive than the top-specced MacBook Pro, for instance, which costs $6,099 for an M1 Max chip, 64GB of RAM, and a similar 8TB SSD. Starting from the $3,999 base price for the M1 Ultra-equipped Mac Studio, here’s how those add-ons shake out: adding more GPU cores adds $1,000 to the price, and doubling RAM from 64GB to 128GB is an extra $800.
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You’re getting some serious bang for your buck, at least (which it had better, given that it costs more than a 2011 Honda Accord): an M1 Ultra processor with the full 20-core CPU and 64-core GPU configuration (instead of the 48-core GPU on the “base” M1 Ultra), 128GB of memory, and an 8TB SSD. But the Mac Studio’s power doesn’t come cheap: while it starts at $1,999 for the entry model (powered by an M1 Max chip) and $3,999 for the cheapest M1 Ultra version, getting a fully specced-out machine will set you back an eye-watering $7,999. Apple’s new Mac Studio has officially arrived on the scene as the most powerful computer powered by its in-house Apple silicon chips yet - including the new M1 Ultra processor the company announced alongside the new desktop computer.
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