John Siracusa

It has a little light on the camera.

It has a haptic track pad and has a backlit keyboard.

So you really see that like the MacBook Air was never designed to be the Walmart bargain basement model.

It's just that they took what was essentially the best MacBook Air that they had ever introduced when the M1 came out.

And they just kept selling it forever because it was just so darn good.

But like, it's like when Casey goes shopping for used cars.

If you want to buy a new car for $45,000, it's not going to have all the same features as a massively depreciated EV for multiple years old.

And you can tell, like when you look at the M1 MacBook Air, like, oh, this wasn't a bargain computer when it was new.

It just is now.

And it was always designed to be a Mac.

Again, the biggest thing is like,

Two Thunderbolt 4 ports versus USB 3 and USB 2.

That is a big difference in terms of bandwidth and usability if you care about the ports.

P3, why would this have P3 color?

Is it a Walmart laptop?

Well, it wasn't always a Walmart laptop.

When it was introduced, having P3 color was table stakes for what was then the highest end MacBook Air ever made.

same thing with touch id it's across all the models but time marches on that's why the neo has a better camera than this thing does right and the neo is 50 cheaper if you care about that neo has better wi-fi and bluetooth the neo has better battery life or brighter screen faster single core soc so like it's not a slam dunk in either direction it depends on what of those things you care about oh and by the way i should list this as a pro in the neo it comes in fun colors and the MacBook Air does not

I kind of like the wedge.

Like I see arguments for both because I do have I have, you know, we have we have the new I have my son has an M2 MacBook Air.