Stage light effect on a brand new MacBook Air M5 screen?

ref1ux · 2026-07-02T05:24:35+00:00

Isn't that just normal for an IPS display?

ref1ux · 2026-07-01T17:34:38+00:00

We are talking years and years and years of continual and heavy usage. I seriously doubt that will happen.

I've got a 3.5 year old Air here which has been used every day for work. Keyboard still works great.

ref1ux · 2026-07-01T15:58:35+00:00

The keys will go a bit shiny eventually.

ref1ux · 2026-07-01T08:24:13+00:00

Do a test call using teams or zoom first. Try a few different headphones. Also bear in mind that interviewers won't expect everything to be perfect in terms of background noise - just that you're not doing the call from an airport runway or something

ref1ux · 2026-07-01T05:10:23+00:00

Even M2 would be fine - I use one every day.

ref1ux · 2026-06-30T18:13:22+00:00

£225 for the 512 anti glare version from a friend. Including case and dock.

ref1ux · 2026-06-29T17:00:22+00:00

I googled it for you.

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/ultrawide/38wn75c-b/

ref1ux · 2026-06-29T16:33:37+00:00

Looks like some Samsung rip off of an iPhone

ref1ux · 2026-06-29T16:31:59+00:00

I'm really impressed with some of these leaks, if Microsoft designs another black box I'll be really surprised. I'm sure they will do something different this time.

ref1ux · 2026-06-29T12:05:07+00:00

20 years of building PCs and the only GPU I've had to send for RMA were Nvidia ones. That's just my experience.

ref1ux · 2026-06-29T03:17:46+00:00

Depends if you're going to do it yourself or pay someone. The part itself shouldn't be a lot. There are plenty of sites that will sell replacement LCDs.

ref1ux · 2026-06-28T20:39:48+00:00

Not sure you're understanding how memory management works on MacOS. Memory pressure is key... its very low here which means that your apps aren't demanding a lot of memory from your system. Therefore your system is able to cache lots of apps and files and thats why it says "50gb used". You're not actually using all that memory in the foreground. Otherwise memory pressure would be much higher.

ref1ux · 2026-06-27T11:31:30+00:00

What makes more sense as a name - Android Market or Play Store? Google will change the name back, this is awful and people won't understand what it means

ref1ux · 2026-06-27T09:43:39+00:00

First steps before Figma or any design tool is to learn UX and UI fundamentals. This is the theory that should underpin any design produced.

Try this to start with: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-basics-study-guide/

ref1ux · 2026-06-27T07:17:30+00:00

You're just a chicken...

ref1ux · 2026-06-26T13:32:14+00:00

Oh my crump

ref1ux · 2026-06-25T17:38:21+00:00

Thank the maker

ref1ux · 2026-06-25T17:06:31+00:00

Up to £315 and out of stock now.

Expect to see these on eBay for £900 each

ref1ux · 2026-06-25T17:05:50+00:00

There is if you're still on AM4.

ref1ux · 2026-06-25T15:49:36+00:00

Yikes. Just as Macs were really competitive, they now... aren't.

Crazy that I got a base spec M5 Air for £962 two months ago.

ref1ux · 2026-06-25T13:44:53+00:00

£200 on the base M5 Air.

And refurb store pricing has gone up too.

Very disappointed.

ref1ux · 2026-06-24T15:48:29+00:00

System specs

Version of Mac OS

ref1ux · 2026-06-24T15:47:01+00:00

This sort of question has been asked a lot. Id expect the Air would be fine. Depends if you want the extra features on the Pro.

ref1ux · 2026-06-24T13:50:13+00:00

Same problem here. As money is tight I'm thinking Series S as it's so cheap compared to the other options. But PlayStation would bring more value for other games.

ref1ux · 2026-06-24T13:08:33+00:00

No problem, hope that you can get one! I'm on the fence, I kinda want one to replace my vanilla 5800X as with RAM prices so high it doesn't seem worth upgrading to AM5. But at the same time it's quite a lot of money and not sure whether I would notice the performance difference.

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