I bought a M2 Air. I opted for 16 Gig and 1 TB. That is/was a configuration that Apple had in stock in the store. The base model, 8 Gig and 256 Gig was also in stock. My experience is that more memory is generally better for some apps, Photoshop for example, MSWord not so much. I run 64 Gig on my main machine with 4 TB of SSD.I am planning on getting the 8gb/512gb m2. Upgrading from a 2014 mbpro 16/512gb. I keep my laptops very long as well. Are you happy with your m2?
Since both of the those M2 Air were in stock at Apple I figured that is a generally good combination. Thus I opted for the larger configuration. My experience over 47+ years in IT that no software package ever reduces its memory footprint. Same goes for storage, that requirement never reduces unless the workload dramatically lowers.
There is also the brick wall that Apple products cannot have storage and memory increased, easily. With the MBA it is said to be impossible without acquiring a new machine. So I hedged my bets and opted for 16 Gig and 1 TB. That seems to be a good combination. I have already consumed 200 Gig of the storage as I have a lot of images, very large Photoshop images with dozens of layers.
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