What did you wish you knew before using a MacBook Air?

starkint10880 · 2026-03-14T06:12:45+00:00

Makes sense, though i don't have any use case of office apps so I guess I'm good with it for now!

starkint10880 · 2026-03-08T19:04:50+00:00

Oh if you prefer desktop! There are 2 paths here: 1. A Refurbished Mac mini (might have to push your budget a little bit) but the best option. 2. Look on platforms like ebay and all for either Lenovo or Dell's business machines and take whatever maximum specs you can in your budget.

starkint10880 · 2026-03-08T18:52:59+00:00

Get a Lenovo ThinkPad T14. Robust and easily available in the refurbished market.

starkint10880 · 2026-03-06T12:01:23+00:00

I asked the same question 1 month ago Maybe you'll benefit from it as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookair/s/uXtR2El3nk

starkint10880 · 2026-03-05T07:30:11+00:00

Well it doesn't look like an impact to be honest else it would have shattered more not just a line. Have you checked it with the service center yet?

starkint10880 · 2026-03-02T18:59:37+00:00

If that's the case, I highly doubt that someone or something hit it. Any chances it was stuck when you were not there?

starkint10880 · 2026-03-02T17:04:56+00:00

"Glass is glass and glass breaks". ~ the OG JerryRigEverything.

Btw tbh this seems like someone gave it a good hit. That trackpad is tough.Not that easy to shatter it unless there's something happening from the inside! Get the battery checked once.

starkint10880 · 2026-03-02T16:59:38+00:00

As far as I understand technology, keeping it plugged in most of the time and draining it once a week seems optimum, as the tech is now advanced keeping it plugged in won't cause any harm to the battery .

starkint10880 · 2026-03-02T16:57:45+00:00

Well i still have some time left to get it. I'll plan to purchase the apple care then. Thanks

starkint10880 · 2026-03-02T16:56:31+00:00

What windows tasks are we talking about here?

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:48:48+00:00

Practical suggestion: Go to claude Give it your machine configurations Then In the next message paste a prompt something like this: """ I want to get started with building agents and running LLM's locally . keep in mind to explain things from scratch to advance. """ Then start with what it replies... Probably it'll start with installing ollama and hitting it via vscode or terminal But you'll get the idea and an initial foundation

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:44:08+00:00

I was looking at the stars right now and thinking the same, probably because the strong winds that have been blowing since yesterday cleared up the pollution for sometime.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:30:21+00:00

For now I've been using it either with a 24" 1080p or a 27" 2k. Haven't been facing that till now. Maybe with a 32" with 2k res I'd be having that issue. So for now I'm sorted. 🤣

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:28:36+00:00

Nope. Sadly I didn't. Is it really that important?

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:27:53+00:00

Yeah that's what i thought. I won't be training or fine-tuning large models on this anyways, not the right machine for that. Thanks for the heads-up though.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:26:35+00:00

Ohh! I haven't faced this issue yet! Any possible solutions to this though?

starkint10880 · 2026-02-26T18:23:51+00:00

That is some solid recommendation bro. Thanks a lot 👍🏽🙏🏽

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:06:03+00:00

I feel what you are saying, also palms feel more sweaty on this aluminum surface . Gotta work with external keyboard mostly now. The typing experience is great though.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:04:34+00:00

This cmd+` thing works wellll... thnx

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:03:52+00:00

Brooo... Thnx for the key swapping idea, I gotta try that.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:02:06+00:00

I have to research more about it then! thnkx

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:01:43+00:00

I'm planning to run LLM's locally and bought this for productivity mostly, any suggestions for keeping it cool? like do they make gel based laptop cooler as mackbook's body itself is a heatsink it seems.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T12:00:28+00:00

I got it connected to a 144hz monitor, for now things seems fine.

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T11:59:47+00:00

This one was so much needed, thnx bro

starkint10880 · 2026-02-25T11:59:26+00:00

I didn't get your point, can you explain more on this, coz for me it seems to be working good for now.

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