Hi All. I am looking into either a refurb MBA M2, 16GB, 1TB, OR, I keep thinking about the M1 MBP.
The issue I have is that I understand the MBA it can only drive 1 external monitor natively. Now having done a bit of searching here, I found there are enough docks/hubs that can address that issue (i believe). I am coming from my Late 2013 MBP i7 16gb. It's a fantastic laptop and handles everything I throw at it, but software shelf life is becoming limited and things like trackpad has stopped working.
I would rather have a more portable laptop now, that I can dock to my office hub with the monitors. My usage is mainly IT tasks, loads of terminal sessions, web pages, some light photoshop (nothing hardcore). And I use vmware a lot.
I dont really care for benchmarks, as in my view, this doesnt give me a real feeling of how a laptop would work for me. So I figure coming from the Core i7 (2013) to at least an M1 would be a considerable upgrade, right?
I have played with both the MBP and MBA2, and I just love the smaller package of the MBA. I heard various people complain about thermal throttling on the MBA2, but again, maybe for the way I use it, it wont be a problem.
So, I guess after that somewhat boring description above. I am thinking of anyone here that bought the MBA 2, that might use the laptop in a simlar way, but now wishes they simply compromised with the slightly heavier MBP M1. ?
Thanks.
Colin.