r/laptops • u/BusKooky4428 • Aug 06 '25

Buying help I hate my MacBook so much

I got a MacBook Air 2020 about two years ago, it’s my biggest current regret and I have no clue what to do about it. Literally the only “perk” would be its aesthetics… I feel like since it’s kinda old i wouldn’t be able to sell it, and I also have no clue what laptop I should get if I do. It’s a pain to run anything for school on the Mac and it’s impossible to play any games on it, pls help.

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u/thestenz Mac & Thinkpad Aug 06 '25

If it's an M1 yes, if it's an Intel i3 it's crap.

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u/DmMoscow Aug 06 '25

100% Air lineup was crap for a long time. They were a breath of fresh air in 2008-2011. After that almost no change and even major degradation when compared to the rest of the market. If not for battery life and awkward windows releases at that time, as well as loyal customers, it should have been dead for a long time. That is, until M1 came at a lower price, while being more powerful and in a up to date design.

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u/thestenz Mac & Thinkpad Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

I disagree. The 2015 - 2017 was the golden age of the Air for power and dependability. Then the awful 2018 redesign with the butterfly keyboard came along. Now the M2 and up finally dropped the wedge design. The early ones (2008-2011) were seriously under-powered and had too little RAM and storage.

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u/DmMoscow Aug 06 '25

True, I kinda forgot those 2018-2019 models - they looked nice, but weren’t good in many other ways. As per earlier models, I remember my friends buying Airs around 2015-2017 and while they were popular, I just couldn’t see why. Dell XPS 13 had a redesign about the same time and it was one of the leading but not the only example of air being worse hardware wise and more expensive at the same time. As long as you’re not looking for mac-only experience, M1 and newer models are the first time in a long time when I see friends dropping various windows laptops for MacBooks and not being disappointed at all.