Here's the Thing about the M3 Macbook Air...

repeat after me , if you've already got an m series laptop , you DO NOT NEED THIS

$200 dollars too get 8 more gigs of RAM should be illegal

Marques is the only one that can call out Apple and still get invited and receive review units 😂

It's refreshing to hear someone say "if you are doing lightweight work, consider the older gear"

Thanks for not being afraid of really calling out the ridiculous pricing of upgrading the machines from base. Everyone needs to share this video.

“M1 Air from walmart” - $699 BRAND NEW. I think thats really the way to go for anyone who just wants a mac and does most of their work in a web browser (lots of people)

Warching this on my M1 MacBook Air, still very happy with it. It is good to see the incremental improvements in each of these releases though, because when one replaces their M1 in a few years there will be a nice jump.

It's so refreshing to hear this from a tech guru like yourself! I remember back in 2010 I bought my first Apple Laptop - it was an "open box" MacBook Air from Best Buy for hundreds less than a new one. It gave me years and years of use and even was still very usable when I replaced it. Co-signing your advice 💯

I somehow missed the fact that they released the m3 Mac air

I have the base m1 MacBook Air and it still runs like butter. Probably won’t need to upgrade until M5 or M6

Awesome review! This has been VERY helpful for me on selecting for my son's laptop. I had to explain the difference between a need and a want. He needs a new laptop that can handle his daily school work. He does NOT need an M3 Pro or the 36 GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Your review cements practicality and reality. Thank you.

We use a base spec M1 MacBook Air for our videos using Final Cut Pro. Still a fantastic laptop and never had any issues with it.

Still rocking my M1 Macbook Air 2020, and it has been great without any hiccups as per my usage. No need of any upgrade for me for a long time.😌

My MacBook Air m1 is the best computer I have ever bought. Zero issues editing. Battery still incredible.

The "enabler" thing is quite true. I've been doing heavy coding for over 3 years with a base M1 Macbook Air and it's still going strong. It paid for itself hundreds times over haha

Bro your video's are mixed so well lol Out here watching your stuff on various studio monitors and it always sounds SO FIRE and the levels are SO ON POINT! Also, cool video :)

I have an observation: I am a designer and filmmaker, I run a studio in Barcelona and for context my main rig is a custom built pc with a 5950x and 3090ti from a couple years back. Now, I bought an M2 Macbook Air, 512gb, 16gb of memory literally just for emails presentations and light work on the go, yet one day as I was on set offloading and SSD from our RED Monstro main rig and our Action shots form the BMPCC 6Ks, I tried laughing between me myself and I, to open a davinci resolve session and dump some of the RAW 5:1 8K footage and some of the 3:1 6K in a 4k timeline, pressed play and to my surprise, it didn't miss almost any frames. I added base convertion LUTs and you know what ? I still had smooth playback. To be fully honest I am still today blown away by how much more accessible handling RAW footage has become, but even more so by the M2 Air, that thing has no business being able to handle such files and yet it does.

The Air is for people using 80% browser/office apps, 10-15% communication apps and 5-10% creative apps. My wife is using the M1 Air base model and the thing doesn't skip a beat. I have a M1Pro and we always use her Air for travel and even just looking stuff on the couch - the lightweight, size and insane battery life just can't be beat. I used to use it for photo editing, and I never-ever saw it struggle with 25MP raw images.

Absolutely solid documentary. The dedication for hos character spawn goes so deep.

I've been using M1 air 16 512 since release for development and design work. What a beast! I even have one of the newer models 16 inch but I still use the Air 99% of time