$400 Macbook Air

[AirSocial]

So if you ever followed my account you would see im a fan of budget things. For example my $80 in total PC with a x3440 xeon, 8gb of ram, and a HD 6450. So I was in the market for a new laptop. I wanted to get a Mac because of linking compatibles with my phone. Also I felt like $1000 for a laptop with a 1.5GHz i5 is kinda a ripoff.. So I tho to get one used. Most of them are from 2011 - 2013. I was going to get a Macbook Pro used for $300 but I hated the bulky design of it. I decided on this one. $371. $402 with taxes. Its from 2012. I ordered it yesterday with 3.5 rating on amazon. Most of them are scratched up but it seems like its kinda win or loose with the model you get. Either its flawless, decent condition, or wont even turn on out of the box. So I took my chances thanks to the Amazon 90 money back guarantee I could also return it. It has a 13inch LCD screen. So I wanted a Retina screen but those models used are in the $600 price range so I tho I don't really need it and settled for the LCD. This Air has a i5 - 3427U clocked at 1.8GHz with 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM which can be upgraded, Intel HD 4000 Graphics, and a 128gb SSD drive. I plan on after the 90 Amazon warranty if everything works to upgrade it to 8GB of ram if its even possible to upgrade it. Only reason for that is because most issues with them happen with the first month or two of owning them so It should be good after then and upgrading would void a free warranty so who wants that. First thing I plan on doing tomorrow when I get it is too upgrade it to a newer version of Mac Mojave. Then I will more than likley post another review of the speed, condition, and overall what I feel of buying it. Stay tuned!!

 

[Firewrath9]

Wat?!?! I can sell my 5 year old macbook air for fucking 400!??!

you are aware macbook air has soldered ram and IIRC soldered storage. Also, mine even with a repaste is stupid loud, and cant do shit. My 12 year old macbook is wayy quieter and i can play warcraft III on it

[AirSocial]

 

7 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Wat?!?! I can sell my 5 year old macbook air for fucking 400!??!

you are aware macbook air has soldered ram and IIRC soldered storage. Also, mine even with a repaste is stupid loud, and cant do shit. My 12 year old macbook is wayy quieter and i can play warcraft III on it

The biggest thing i'm planning too do on it is watch youtube videos. Thats the biggest. Im going to be using it for travel too because of the small size. Even my first little ASUS Eee PC with a Atom N450 can do videos so I thing it should be good enough for what I need.

[TheSLSAMG]

14 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Wat?!?! I can sell my 5 year old macbook air for fucking 400!??!

you are aware macbook air has soldered ram and IIRC soldered storage. Also, mine even with a repaste is stupid loud, and cant do shit. My 12 year old macbook is wayy quieter and i can play warcraft III on it

The RAM is soldered but storage is not. The connector is a proprietary Apple connector, but M.2 adapters exist. Older machines such as OP's support adapters that convert to SATA M.2, whereas newer machines (such as my 2015) support adapters that convert to NVMe M.2.

[AirSocial]

6 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

The RAM is soldered but storage is not. The connector is a proprietary Apple connector, but M.2 adapters exist. Older machines such as OP's support adapters that convert to SATA M.2, whereas newer machines (such as my 2015) support adapters that convert to NVMe M.2.

Thanks for confirming the RAM is soldered.

[TheKDub]

39 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Wat?!?! I can sell my 5 year old macbook air for fucking 400!??!

you are aware macbook air has soldered ram and IIRC soldered storage. Also, mine even with a repaste is stupid loud, and cant do shit. My 12 year old macbook is wayy quieter and i can play warcraft III on it

Assuming you find the right buyer, yep.

 

The sad thing is that my 2012 Macbook Pro (13", 2.9Ghz i7 3520M) is nicer to use than my Lenovo Yoga 710 that I bought in January 2017 for nearly $1000. (Aside from the much lower resolution, that is.)

[Guest]

I have dealt with these, they are wayyy to slow to be usable, for 400 thats a ripoff. I know these linking capablites could be a tradeoff but i would look into used/refurb thinkpads. Value vs. quality and performance would be better, also they are highly upgradable.

[Firewrath9]

I've seen mac minis from like 2015 go for 400$, that'd be a much better deal

[AirSocial]

So I got the computer today. ITS wayyy better than I thought. It looks brand new. Came with a version of Mac from 2016. Updated it and it works perfectly for what I need. Its fast in Safari, and I can do everything I wanted too with it. I thought this was not going to be this good but I guess amazon proved me wrong. I would def recommend this to anyone!!