15-Inch MacBook Air Teardown Reveals Familiar Design and Upgraded Six-Speaker Sound System

That crappy battery replacement experience is exactly why we need regulations to force companies to make it easier to swap batteries. There's NO VALID REASON they had to make the battery so hard to replace. Layering components in a different order and it'd be cake. They just don't want end users replacing them, pure and simple.

The ssd at 256GB is just sad for two reasons, 256GB in 2023 is crazy small. Apple overcharging the upgrade on memory and storage is also sad. Come on Apple Steve would not be impressed I can think of multiple quotes of his.

That crappy battery replacement experience is exactly why we need regulations to force companies to make it easier to swap batteries. There's NO VALID REASON they had to make the battery so hard to replace. Layering components in a different order and it'd be cake. They just don't want end users replacing them, pure and simple.

Actually, there may be valid design decisions involving how components are layered, from both a product and assembly POV. It's not as simple as just change the order of the layers.

The ssd at 256GB is just sad for two reasons, 256GB in 2023 is crazy small. Apple overcharging the upgrade on memory and storage is also sad.

256, at the entry level, is more than enough for most of those buyers.

Come on Apple Steve would not be impressed I can think of multiple quotes of his.

Had the IC tech that exists today been available and affordable for mass market devices, during Steve's tenure as CEO we'd seen the same decisions being made than as today.

I hope Apple has enough capacity to crank out millions of these laptops. This is THE laptop to buy, and will make for some very profitable quarters ahead. My only issue - get RID of the 256 configuration, it only exists allow them to quote a lower ‘starting at’ price. Anyone that knows anything about laptops would never get that model, insufficient memory AND slower.

A lower price point makes for an attractive entry point for many users who only want to do some web surfing, check emails, have some photos to edit in Photos, and maybe use Office. 256 is plenty for light users, whop will notice no impact from a slower memory bandwidth.

Techies are obsessed with specs and think their use case is the same for everyone.

They definitely could have fit bigger batteries in there , sad

Then again, there's the lightweight argument

So the battery isn't larger than the 13-inch?

Added a sentence to the MacRumors story to clarify this: "The battery is also larger, but Apple says battery life is equal to the 13-inch model."

Did anyone catch this from the MacBook Air 15" render? A little strange!

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At $1299... Apple would add another $100 for a better 99Whr battery.

Better yet, make a bigger battery an option and charge $200 (Apple's favorite number) to upgrade. :)