<story><title>New MacBook Air with M2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pulcinella</author><text>In a somewhat similar situation with the 2019 16 inch Intel MBP. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say it&amp;#x27;s too slow, but it does get embarrassingly hot during regular use. Enabling low power mode disables turbo boost and keeps it much, much cooler, but plugging into an external monitor enables the discrete graphics card and the laptop gets hot again.&lt;p&gt;Going to try to get a few more years out of it hopefully until Imagination Tech&amp;#x27;s hardware accelerated ray tracing solutions can make it to Apple&amp;#x27;s GPUs.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It&amp;#x27;s fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too slow for serious dev work, a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too short for my liking.&lt;p&gt;I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I&amp;#x27;ve ever used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Yeah I ditched my 2019 16&amp;quot; for an M1 Max. Was an expensive move but honestly, I couldn&amp;#x27;t bear to use that thing as a laptop, especially once I knew there was an alternative which doesn&amp;#x27;t get hot enough to fry eggs on.&lt;p&gt;For me it was worth it, because I now enjoy using my laptop as a laptop on the sofa or whatever, and do a lot more creative stuff on it than I did with the old one. But definitely not a cheap move!</text></comment>
<story><title>New MacBook Air with M2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pulcinella</author><text>In a somewhat similar situation with the 2019 16 inch Intel MBP. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say it&amp;#x27;s too slow, but it does get embarrassingly hot during regular use. Enabling low power mode disables turbo boost and keeps it much, much cooler, but plugging into an external monitor enables the discrete graphics card and the laptop gets hot again.&lt;p&gt;Going to try to get a few more years out of it hopefully until Imagination Tech&amp;#x27;s hardware accelerated ray tracing solutions can make it to Apple&amp;#x27;s GPUs.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It&amp;#x27;s fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too slow for serious dev work, a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a &lt;i&gt;little&lt;/i&gt; too short for my liking.&lt;p&gt;I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I&amp;#x27;ve ever used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbintt</author><text>I use these with few or no problems. The heat dissipation is pretty much solved by charging on the right side.  My life is full of usability hacks, I don&amp;#x27;t mind one more.&lt;p&gt;The biggest frustration for me with a mac now is that it&amp;#x27;s becoming a toy OS like windows.  It becomes more and more cumbersome to run programs that aren&amp;#x27;t in the app store. As a result I&amp;#x27;ve been cultivating an ubuntu&amp;#x2F;plasma(kde) practice on a gaming desktop outside of working hours.</text></comment>