[lynndotpy]

It's not straightforward to me personally. Look at the photos on the Apple store, I don't even know what these laptops look like, let alone which one to pick.

Add in the SSD issues and the info-sparse spec list and I really can't tell and the whole S/Pro/Plus/Max/?? situation. I wish they were clearer

[eyelidlessness]

> Look at the photos on the Apple store, I don't even know what these laptops look like

Browsing on my phone, apple.com > store > Mac[1], I see a carousel showing the front of each Mac model (oddly showing the older MacBook Air first, I’d guess because it’s the least expensive?). Tapping each model, a view for that model shows up with a carousel showing additional angles/perspectives. Granted this isn’t the most obvious navigation from the home page, and the individual products’ landing/marketing pages too frequently bury useful images.

> Add in the SSD issues and the info-sparse spec list and I really can't tell and the whole S/Pro/Plus/Max/?? situation. I wish they were clearer

If I go to Compare Mac Models[2], the spec comparisons don’t seem especially sparse. Below the fold details get more specific about the chips. Granted they’re mostly differentiated by core counts (and, oddly, memory bandwidth). The page also enumerates all configuration options for each model.

I do agree they should be more upfront about SSD performance by configuration.

1: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac

2: https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/

[lynndotpy]

Oh wow, I didn't even find the first page when on the apple site. Thanks for this! I was navigating Apple > Mac > Buy.

I was looking at the pages for the specific laptops (which, as far as I can tell, only have the front-facing photos.) The spec situation is still confusing (took me awhile to figure out the $1200 MBAs and the $1500 MBAs were two configs of the same model; "Select" essentially takes you to the same place, which was very confusing.)