Apple MacBook Air 2013

I’ve also come to this realization as a longtime Mac user. Granted, I’m not old enough to have used the classic Mac OS as a professional, though I did use it in my childhood. However, I was in high school and college during the Jobs era of Mac OS X, and that’s when I started using Macs as my daily drivers from 2006 until 2022 when I retired my 2013 Mac Pro and 2013 MacBook Air and switched back to PCs running Windows. Before Apple’s success with the iPhone, Apple was essentially the Macintosh company. Its fortunes were tied to the Mac, and Apple seemed to be attuned to the needs of Mac users. In return, there was quite a strong Mac fandom. The Mac was more than just a tool or just a platform. The Mac was a philosophy, and what attracted people to the Mac was the philosophy of the Mac and its ecosystem. Ever since the iPhone became a major hit, and especially since the passing of Jobs, it became apparent to me that my best interests as a computer user and Apple’s interests as a company no longer align. Apple no longer needed to cater to “the Mac faithful” to survive. In fact, Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world thanks to the iPhone. It also seems that macOS is losing its distinctiveness. The unfortunate thing, and I think this is where some Mac users get emotional and disappointed, is that there’s nothing else out there in the personal computing landscape that is like the glory days of the Mac. Windows is an inconsistent mess filled with annoyances, an…

FWIW, I've been using linux on desktop/laptops for 16 years, and for last 1 1/2 years, I've been running Linux (Fedora, awesomewm) on VMware Fusion, on OSX, on a Macbook Air 2013 (June), and it's the smoothest Linux laptop experience I've ever had. When you think about it, all I'm doing is abstracting the hardware to a hypervisor, and the OS that hypervisor is hosted on is responsible for all hardware management. I continue to get 10-14 hour battery runtime, never ever had a failed suspend/resume, and every single hardware component is fully supported. Barely any other laptop can compare to it for battery life and the hardware itself is the best laptop experience I've had (although I do miss my 'pointing stick' from Toshiba or IBM/Lenovo gear). I'm surprised more people haven't suggested this.

I really hope the screen no longer has the slow response and ghosting anymore. I'm surprised by the responsive difference every time I use my outdated 2013 MacBook Air's trackpad and immediately feel the difference over my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 daily driver.

I bought a 2013 MacBook Air for $50 two years ago to take on a backpacking trip. It runs Linux and I use it all the time. I had a video meeting on it this morning. You run OpenCode with Big Pickle on it with decent performance. So you can even vibe code on it for free.

I’m still running a 2013 MacBook Air. 4gb of RAM, no CPU to speak of. Still works. I’ll probably buy this, unless the cheap one they release tomorrow is better. A current MacBook is something like 30x more powerful than my ancient one. It’s going to be insane.

This post made me boot up my 2013 MacBook Air. 800ish cycles on the battery still at 81% life. A OS update was just released 17 days ago. Amazing.

There are two points I feel are worth focusing and I’ve experienced similar: - Linux is fast. Few years ago I wanted to run Linux and used my MacBook Air 2013 (one of the best machines I’ve had). It was amazing how Ubuntu ran so sleek especially comparing to the MacBook Pro 2018 with macOS. - x86_64 feels less portable than arm. Since I got MBP from my work I’ve also got another machine for Windows. I’ve went with 13” MSI Perstige with 125H which was the latest back then offering hybrid cores (performance + economy). It’s 1kg is amazing and the OLED is also nice. But in order for the machine to actually compile and be snappy I need to ensure it’s not dropping to 0.4-0.8Ghz and then it easily gets warm and noisy. The MBP 2021 also shows age. But even with more frequent fans and 80% of original battery it outperform the younger MSI since day one. TL;DR * Unless you need specific software, Linux distros are great and fast. Much more joy (imho) than Windows. * SoC/ARM is still rare but it would be much more interesting comparison to current Macs in terms of portability (fans, battery life)

Agree overall. Just want to point out that Vulkan works on Intel Haswell. I have a 2013 MacBook Air and a 2013 Mac Pro that both have Haswell. Linux kernel 6.14 actually includes an Haswell Vulkan update from Intel themselves.

I am so upset that Apple nixed the wedge Air. I loved my 2013 Air, and much more so, my M1 Air. Once they lost the wedge, and especially when the MBP got a 14” option, I lost interest. 14” is the absolute perfect size for a laptop, IMO.

Cries in 4Gb Macbook Air 2013 /s I am fine(ish) with the above setup, I don't know what you are talking about. 8Gb is plenty for website browsing.

I have a 2013 Macbook Air as a casual browsing machine that's still going strong (by some definition of it) after a battery replacement.

Thank you everyone involved. I’ve got Fedora running on a 2013 MacBook Air (midrange). Perfect as a second screen to watch videos or couch surf.

2013 was the peak for me. iPhone 6 and Macbook Air 2013 the last good devices. i have macbook pro m2 at work and just typing into the terminal is laggy. plus random crashes, apps refusing to start no legacy app support. my windows 10 is much much more stable. their phones being turned into a super fragile glass brick with no consideration of hand ergonomics is peak hubris. and the face ID, pure marketing gimmick that doesnt evenb work better than fingerprint or basic camera unlock. they are purely marketing company now.

100% no. Even my MacBook Air 2013 did not had that.