<story><title>New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model</title><url>https://www.imore.com/new-2019-macbook-air-features-slower-ssd-2018-model</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgriswald</author><text>&amp;gt; Before you go and start casting aspersions at Apple, the move makes a lot of sense. It&amp;#x27;d be one thing if it did this and raised the price, but it actually lowered the price by $100, and the education discount brings it down to $999, making it the most affordable modern MacBook laptop ever (the outdated MacBook Air does not count).&lt;p&gt;Which is fine for the entry-level model. Is it true for the more expensive model? The article doesn&amp;#x27;t say.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; With that as the background, Apple was bound to make a sacrifice or two to reached the aggressive price point and it did so with the SSD. Most people will take that over it removing something like Touch ID or another feature they&amp;#x27;d use on a daily basis. It&amp;#x27;s also worth pointing out that given it is an entry-level point product, most users who pick up the new notebook likely won&amp;#x27;t notice the difference at all.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure that most people would, given the choice, have gone that route. There are plenty of Apple features (including Touch ID) that Apple thinks people want, but I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that most people definitely want them. The last sentence is the only one that counts: most people won&amp;#x27;t notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fjp</author><text>I actually think the current MacBook Air configuration with Touch ID &amp;amp; Retina - $1100 - is basically exactly what I (and many people) want in a personal laptop.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s light, easy to use, plenty fast for anything I do on a regular basis, and the Retina display is excellent.&lt;p&gt;Unless I have reason not to trust it, Touch ID is the perfect way to log in when you:&lt;p&gt;1. want to have your computer lock after a short period of inactivity and&lt;p&gt;2.  tend to use long passwords that you don&amp;#x27;t want to type in all the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model</title><url>https://www.imore.com/new-2019-macbook-air-features-slower-ssd-2018-model</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgriswald</author><text>&amp;gt; Before you go and start casting aspersions at Apple, the move makes a lot of sense. It&amp;#x27;d be one thing if it did this and raised the price, but it actually lowered the price by $100, and the education discount brings it down to $999, making it the most affordable modern MacBook laptop ever (the outdated MacBook Air does not count).&lt;p&gt;Which is fine for the entry-level model. Is it true for the more expensive model? The article doesn&amp;#x27;t say.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; With that as the background, Apple was bound to make a sacrifice or two to reached the aggressive price point and it did so with the SSD. Most people will take that over it removing something like Touch ID or another feature they&amp;#x27;d use on a daily basis. It&amp;#x27;s also worth pointing out that given it is an entry-level point product, most users who pick up the new notebook likely won&amp;#x27;t notice the difference at all.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure that most people would, given the choice, have gone that route. There are plenty of Apple features (including Touch ID) that Apple thinks people want, but I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that most people definitely want them. The last sentence is the only one that counts: most people won&amp;#x27;t notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>Actually lowered the price... it&amp;#x27;s not like hardware ever becomes cheaper with time?&lt;p&gt;I guess apple have improved recent years but previously this was quite apparent. &amp;quot;Wow, new much faster model costs the same as the old one!&amp;quot; Yeah, that&amp;#x27;s because the old one is insanely overpriced - unless you bought it on launch day. Conveniently that&amp;#x27;s the only day of the lifetime it is ever compared to the competition.</text></comment>