We're comparing modern hardware here not something from 2014, which in fact, you cannot use unless you use MUCH older versions of the software.
Anyway this thread was from last year, I don't care anymore.
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Can M2 Air 8/10/16/512 get my daughter through College?
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We're comparing modern hardware here not something from 2014, which in fact, you cannot use unless you use MUCH older versions of the software.
Anyway this thread was from last year, I don't care anymore.
It is "a few ounces." MBA 15" is 3.3 pounds whereas MBP 14" is 3.4-3.6 pounds. Obviously there are a range of 13-14-15-16 sizes, but choosing between 14" MBP versus 15" MBA is common. Even the 13" MBA is less than a pound lighter than the 14" MBP. So yes, ounces unless one compares against the 4.7-4.8 pound 16" version.
The 2.7 pound 13" MBA wins for lightness at 2.7 pounds, so anyone who does not seek better/larger display, speakers, ports, RAM and bandwidth will find a 13" MBA pretty sweet for portability. But a loaded 14" MBP has everything at 3.6 pounds: reasonable screen real estate and full power and ports n/a to MBA.
Comparing an M2 to a 2014MPB is like comparing an NHRA top-fuel dragster to a nitrous-alcohol funnycar: One goes 300mph in a quarter-mile, the other goes 250, and you're selling them to people who just want to go get groceries. The cars will never go beyond second-gear.
You'd be surprised at how little most software has improved in recent years. For instance, MS Office is substantially unchanged since 2015 (that last time data-formats changed), but MS will cheerfully tell you that your "old" OS is now too long-in-the-tooth to run the reskinned "new" version with additional bonus privacy-invasion. Photoshop CS6 Extended ran in 2gb of ram in Snow Leopard on a 2006 iMac (does the average person need more to remove pinkeye and add 3D effects?), and is greased lightning on a 2014. Check the internal version-numbers of most of these apps, and you'll find that in many cases, the new version is just the old version encrusted with a dozen incremental layers of bloat, telemetry, and subscription-model money-grubbing (this is especially the case with Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple products) -- all of which especially apply to the operating-systems themselves, to such an extent that a theoretical powerhouse M2 so struggles under the weight of Apple's latest porky OSes that the machines are subjectively slowly than older models running OSes newer than them. For instance, an M2 laptop chugs Sonoma slower than a 2014MBP running Mojave/HFS, an OS five years newer than the laptop. (And you don't have to ship the older laptop to Apple in order to get a new battery.)
If you truly don't care about the thread, you'll un"Watch" it rather than trying to get the last word in.
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The real lightness alternative to the MBP was the the 11" Air model, weighing in at 2.38lbs. Sadly discontinued in 2015. They were light as a feather.
they are just slow even the 16 doesnt hold up against the pro.. probably just me, not patient....