THE SHIFT
MATT BOLTON wonders what the future development of Macs looks like after the unrepeatable revolution of the M chips
THE LATEST M2 MacBook Air is an incredible machine, but it has one fundamental problem: the M1 MacBook Air. Despite being someone who is so shamelessly easy to sucker into getting the latest version of a perfectly good product that I already own, I haven’t felt any pull to get one.
The other day I was in an Apple Store and thought I’d have another play with one, but I actually prefer the design of the previous model — the tapered edge is easy to pick up. Now, that’s the kind of thing that could be easily overcome if I was excited by it elsewhere, but… I’m not. Its biggest selling point is the M2 chip at its core, but I don’t even push the M1 to its limit. The M2 doesn’t really offer me any crucial extra. And my concern is that this is going to be a problem for the M3 too, and the M4, and…