Comment by zitterbewegung
12 hours ago
It's interesting that to get to the price point of $499 (edu) or $599 that what Apple did was
- No touchID on the base model
- 8GB of RAM
- USB 3 and the second port is USB 2
- No MagSafe.
But, you can still get a 512 gb of SSD and it adds the TouchID sensor back. For education the upgrade may actually make sense.
Feels like a refurb M1 Air is a much better deal.
8/256, TouchID, Magsafe, USB3 all for $300-350 currently.
The M1 Air didn’t have MagSafe, but yeah agreed
The RAM and USB limitation likely has little to do with price point and all to do with the limitations of the A18pro SoC. It's really not a chip designed to be put into PCs
You are totally right. Also, I think it's basically to avoid only one port to charge and use for connectivity.