If you live a life where you can't get to a charger for 7+ hours and need to use your device for that entire 7+ hours, maybe macbooks are your only choice, that doesn't change the fact you're paying more for less.

My partner gets 6-7 from her legion 5 pro gen 6, and she can use it for other things and it's not even marketed as a long life battery device.

Even more so when you could just run something like a legion 5 pro on battery saver mode, do all the same tasks as an MBA could do and barely spin up the fans, if at all, and still be able to have the option to plug it in, set it to max power and do heavier If you're doing actual work on a macbook, it's not lasting 18 hours, go check the user reviews in reddit. If fanless is worth a 1k premium to you, ok great, but that isn't value, that's an expensive, very minor QoL improvement.

What I can do on them when comparing them to my personal laptop and desktop that, combined, didn't even cost as much as either the iMac or MBP on their own is hilarious. I have an iMac and MBP provided by work, and i've seen the amount paid for them. This is what it means to pay more for less. You can do it all on a much cheaper laptop, then swap to your desktop for games. If you're a two device person (i'm a two device person), you don't need a ~2000 MBA to do what an MBA does. The other got a laptop with fans (boo?) 32gb of RAM and a 1tb ssd, with a very decent CPU and GPU, they can do all that the person with the macbook can do, plus they have something that can play games and run heavier workloads. They can't jump into any new games, they can maybe play some older ones. They can do work tasks, watch movies, browse, etc. One got a laptop that has no fans (yay?), 8gb of RAM and 512gb ssd, with essentially beefed up mobile phone chipset. One bought the macbook air in this post for 2112, the other bought a legion 5 pro with a 30 - who got more for their money?

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