I was wrong. 15" M2 MBA Is Perfectly Fine.

[dizmonk]

I have a Starlight 16GB/1 TB MBA. I've had it for two months. Running Istat, a battery monitor, and often on a VPN, I get ridiculous battery life from this thing. It does not die. There's very little swap memory being used. Whatever I open and run it works.

I used to have a 14 m1 MBP and have been very tempted by the new M3 (mainly because of the improved battery life) but this thing just works. When I go into the Apple store or Best Buy and look at them side by side, it's really barely any difference, (except the price.... I honestly have been looking for reasons to sell this thing and upgrade, but it just works.

And no the Starlight does not look like silver. Clearly, I thought the MBP would be a significant upgrade but I was wrong. Sometimes it's nice to be wrong.

 

[profH]

MBA 15 is a -great- all rounder in 16/1 ”custom stock” - totally underrated.

 

[Baseiseough]

I have a Starlight 16GB/1 TB MBA. I've had it for two months. Running Istat, a battery monitor, and often on a VPN, I get ridiculous battery life from this thing. It does not die. There's very little swap memory being used. Whatever I open and run it works.

I used to have a 14 m1 MBP and have been very tempted by the new M3 (mainly because of the improved battery life) but this thing just works. When I go into the Apple store or Best Buy and look at them side by side, it's really barely any difference, (except the price.... I honestly have been looking for reasons to sell this thing and upgrade, but it just works.

And no the Starlight does not look like silver. Clearly, I thought the MBP would be a significant upgrade but I was wrong. Sometimes it's nice to be wrong.

Heck, I have a 8/256 midnight 13" air and love it. I have no doubt you machine is great! You made a good choice! Starlight looks way better than silver (even though I got midnight 😜, but if midnight would not have been available, I would probably have chosen Starlight)!

 

[Apple_Robert]

I agree. The M2 MBA is a great machine and provides a lot of bang for the tech buck.

 

[bigjnyc]

I tried to get my wife to buy a MacBook Pro, but she wanted the slightly thinner and lighter design of the Air.. So she got the 15" when it came out... She runs some really hardware taxing medical models (x-ray and imaging stuff) and I warned her that the air would never be able to handle it. But it turns out I was dead wrong.... Some of the stuff her old 2019 MBP would struggle with, the Air doesn't even break a sweat. It's working out wonderfully for her so far... That M2 chip is a beast for sure even in the consumer level machines.

 

[dizmonk]

The weird thing is I remember having a 15" Intel Macbook Pro that on a good day, got two and a half hours of battery life. I can potentially get two days of battery life on this thing. It's ridiculous. I think everyone has forgotten how power-hungry, loud, and inefficient Intel Mac laptops were. We've seriously gotten very spoiled.

 

[bousozoku]

The weird thing is I remember having a 15" Intel Macbook Pro that on a good day, got two and a half hours of battery life. I can potentially get two days of battery life on this thing. It's ridiculous. I think everyone has forgotten how power-hungry, loud, and inefficient Intel Mac laptops were. We've seriously gotten very spoiled.

My Mid-2012 quad-core i7 MacBook Pro was great in the winter. Processing video, it would run up to 100 degrees C. My M1 MacBook Air may get to 54 degrees C full out, when the temperature is 40 degrees C outside.

It's simply shocking how powerful any of the Mx series SoC are.

 

[1BadManVan]

The weird thing is I remember having a 15" Intel Macbook Pro that on a good day, got two and a half hours of battery life. I can potentially get two days of battery life on this thing. It's ridiculous. I think everyone has forgotten how power-hungry, loud, and inefficient Intel Mac laptops were. We've seriously gotten very spoiled.

oh yea, its insane how spoiled this society has gotten and the attitude towards certain tech lol. Like now if you dont have an oled or mini-led display then it must be trash now lol.

 

[polee]

I have never loved a computer as much as my MBA 15. It is specced at 512 gb and 8 gb ram. It is light, does not get warm with the tasks I throw at it, and it just simply works. Thankful that Apple released this and I think it would be very difficult for me to go back to a smaller screen size.

 

[MajorFubar]

If I ever buy a laptop again (they're not really my thing) likely it will be this, or one of its successors. I don't need the power of a Pro or Max chip in a portable device because it wouldn't ever be my main machine, but the bigger screen is definitely selling it to me more than the 13". I barely used my 13" M1 Air, which is why I sold it, and partly why I barely used it was the 13" screen was too small, whereas with the the 16" Pro I would be paying for processing power I didn't need.