The Future of MacBook: 15" MacBook Air 2023 Performance, Weight, and Price Analysis

[@BadenHealth]

If you prefer a larger screen for mobile light office work, the pro machines are overpowered and heavier than needed. If the price is right I think a larger air will do do well. And, I bet it will make the 14 inch pro more enticing in the apple pricing ladder. I can imagine: Great the MBA15 is out, now lets add the ram I need, dang for a few hundred more I could get a 14 inch pro...

[@MutePCdotcom]

Indeed, Apple will need to be careful on the pricing to fit this in reasonably.

[@Sitrilein]

Only with M3 and also Basic fast(!) 512GB SSD. I can wait.

[@MutePCdotcom]

Looking forward to M3 as well!

[@nxadventures9510]

M2 is already lagging behind Ryzen CPUs so they will need to make a large upgrade instead of just recycling M1. And software is still not stable on M2, not to mention games. Just try baking lighting in Unreal Engine 5 (hint: still not supported).

[@MutePCdotcom]

Those are good points! Hopefully M3 sees some big improvements and doesn't get delayed too long.

[@crearg8259]

One year later with $300 more? No way will I buy this piece of trash. Let’s wait for the M3 Pro 14 inch MacBook Pro.

[@MutePCdotcom]

The 15 inch is indeed coming pretty late in the chip release cycle. If it does get released with the M2, hopefully they will update it to the M3 sooner (along with other Macs) rather than later.

[@crearg8259]

@@MutePCdotcom Mac Mini M2 is half a year late and we saw a $100 discount on launch. I can’t imagine how they can release an M2 MBA 15 that’s only $50~100 more expensive than the 13 inch M2 MBA, and I can’t imagine how they can charge more with such a terrible market this year.