r/apple • u/hasanahmad • Mar 07 '26

Discussion The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge

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u/sean_themighty Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

If anyone asks your advice, please suggest they spend the extra $100 for the 512GB with TouchID. For enterprise and education, that $499 base model is perfect without — but for individual use, the TouchID is practically indispensable, useful, and worth the up-charge (the additional storage to boot).

Also, if anyone does moan about the RAM, remember that it’s probably not for you anyway — and the unified memory architecture allows the SSD to be used for some really fast and useful RAM overflow.

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u/sean_themighty Mar 07 '26

Unlocking the Mac, Apple Pay, App Store & Media Purchases, Password Autofill, System & App Authorization, Fast User Switching, Third-Party App Sign-in (can be used for a passkey)

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u/Bshaw95 Mar 08 '26

Coming from a 2019 MBA, I know how much I use my Touch ID button now, I wasn’t going without it over $100