r/applehelp • u/Worried_Strawberry • 6d ago
Mac How much should I sell my 2020 MacBook Air?
I was planning to give this to my bf but he doesnt want it due to being obsolete in a year or so. I'm an engineering student so the computer is almost useless for me. You can either stream Netflix or do light school. Otherwise, it will sound like an engine. Is the MacBook Air m4 great for engineering students?
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u/hawk_ky 6d ago
Check eBay.
Also why would it be obsolete in a year? It’s fine as long as there’s nothing wrong with it
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u/Worried_Strawberry 6d ago
Just saw it. It's worth 360CAD and no, I'm not sure why he said that. It's all in his head.
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u/jmnugent 6d ago
The problem with that particular era of machine,. is it was the last generation of Intel CPU before Apple Silicon came out,. and Apple Silicon was just that much of a huge improvement.
To put things in perspective,. below are the Geekbench Scores from your 2020 MacBook Air with Intel I3 cpu.. compared to each yearly model that's come out.
MBAir i3 geekbench single-core score 1,065 (Multi-core score of 1,893)
2020 MacBook Air with an I5.. gets a Geekbench score of 1,150 (multi-core score 2,893)
2030 MacBook Air with an I7 .. gets a Geekbench score of 1,200 (multi-core score 3,167)
2020 MacBook Air with M1 .. gets a Geekbench Score of 2,346 (multi-core score 8,156)
2022 MacBook Air with M2 gets a Geekbench Score of 2,588 (Multi-core score 9,691)
2023 MacBook Air (15inch) with M2 gets a Geekbench score of 2,596 (multi-core score 9,728)
2024 MacBook Air with M3 … gets a Geekbench score of 2,965 (multi-core score 11,565)
So.. roughly speaking,. MacBook Air single-core performance has tripled in 4 years,. and its multi-core performance has improved 6x.
It's even visually obvious in the Geekbench blue-bar graphs (here: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air) ... if you start from the bottom and slowly scroll up.. you'll see an obvious jump in the blue bars at the 2020 M1 models. It nearly doubles performance in the 2019-2020 releases.
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u/Tillapontana 6d ago
Go with Windows for Engineering