Well, my last Mac lasted from 2008 until mid-last year. So yeah, I'm going for that type of commitment on a Mac.
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M2 MacBook Air or M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14” dilemma
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Exactly, horses for courses! I’m getting one for work and will be doing nothing more intensive than large spreadsheets, lots of zoom/teams conference calls and multi-tasking between a lot of apps. The Air M2 is my choice. Just need to decide between 8 and 16gb of RAM and 256 or 512 SSD.
Got my mbp 14. Zero regrets. Im happy i got mbp over m2 air. I dont think portability will be an issue
We’re talking about really minor differences in portability. Yes, you can tell the difference side by side. But in daily practical use, it’ll be a non issue.
I loved my MBA, got a 14” earlier this year and have never looked back. Beautiful screen, amazingly fast, never heard the fans even once. Perfect machine.
I loved my MBA, got a 14” earlier this year and have never looked back. Beautiful screen, amazingly fast, never heard the fans even once. Perfect machine.
MBPs today are not the same ones from late-2000s and early-2010s. They are not thin and light. Bets to choose the best one for the job.
To each his or her own. I, for one, would notice the weight difference. Case in point:
The other night, I packed up my gym
bag and took it downstairs in preparation for going to the gym. As I got downstairs, it occurred to me that something didn't feel right - the bag felt much lighter than it should - and sure enough, I had forgotten to pack the plastic flip-flops I wear in the locker room. Out of curiosity, I weighed them, and they came in right around a pound, so not much more than the difference between the M2 Air and the 14" Pro. This was in a bag with gym clothes, running shoes, socks, weighing 5 lbs or so, yet the 1 lb differential was immediately noticeable.
Since I quickly noticed the difference in the gym bag's weight while descending just one flight of
stairs, I think the difference in computer weight would be quite noticeable to me as well.
Same dilemma here. Decided I'm going to wait for the new 3nm M3 or M3 Pro for the MBP 14". Hopefully the improved efficiency means a thinner laptop.
Sounds like you need to lift heavier weights at the gym 🙃😆
I'm a petite female (and also a gym goer) and travel everyday with the MBP 14" in my bag with no issue 😊 coming from a M1 MBA - the weight difference is negligible
I just went through exactly same thing! Found literally 1 in Officeworks, their only 1 in all AU but they couldn’t ship to Brisbane. Called Jb hifi (who had a couple AU wide, and they price matched (against that 1 Officeworks stock) and they posted to me. Such a huge saving!
(now the Officeworks stock is back to 0, you have to be quick!)
I totally agree - I'm just as smitten with my 14" MBP 🤩 EVEN WITH the release of the new M2 Air (no FOMO here!! 😁)
I totally loved having the thinnest lightest Mac and have held onto my fully upspecced 11” MBA from 2015 because until M1 believe it or not, it was still benching better than the retina MBA’s (retina needed more power so apple had to choose underpowered CPU’s)
That said, with rumours swirling now of a 12” model in coming years, now that my mac is 7years old, I’ve decided to go for 14” mbp as a performance work machine and I’ll probably end up grabbing the thinnest and lightest again for home/travel use, when that 12” actually comes out.
So passing on new m2 air now.
That said, with rumours swirling now of a 12” model in coming years, now that my mac is 7years old, I’ve decided to go for 14” mbp as a performance work machine and I’ll probably end up grabbing the thinnest and lightest again for home/travel use, when that 12” actually comes out.
So passing on new m2 air now.
I can, and do, lift plenty of weight, thanks. But I don't carry around a computer for exercise. I carry it around the world on airplanes, and up, down and around my four-story house, often with the lid open and something else in my other hand. In those situations, I have no desire to carry extra weight, particularly if the only upside is power and performance that I do not need, at additional cost, to boot.
I’ll turn this scenario around - I 💯 wanted the 14” MBP - researched and lusted after it (for the bigger screen, promotion, additional ports, MagSafe charging and the quick charge as well as power and performance) and couldn’t bring myself to spend the money so try to curb my want, I ended up buying a used base M1 MBA on EBay for a stellar deal (from a reputable seller, it only had 8 charge cycles and I was able to put applecare on it)
Awesome laptop - but I ended up buying the base 14” MBP in the end (on sale) and am absolutely smitten with it 🤩
I got used to the weight quite quickly (although it never bothered me, it was just “there” (kind of like going from a 13 pro to pro max iPhone) and carry it back and forth daily with no issue
In the end, figure out what is the most important to you - if it’s thin-ness and lightness go for the Air, if it’s performance go for the pro. From what you’re describing - I’d spec up the M2 MBA to suit your needs
I haven’t sold that M1 MBA yet btw - so in the end it’s cost me more 😂
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Why? I also have a M1 MBA - and given that I own, have travelled with, and have used both devices - I’d imagine my opinion is quite relevant on this thread 😉
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Fair enough. From your prior post, it sounded like you'd moved on from the M1A. My apologies. That said, my preference for lower weight over unnecessary (for me) performance stands.
If you don't need the power/ports/screen of 14/16, then the weight difference would be huge by going with M2 Air and you save $300. Throw that $300 to your SP500 and get $9083 in the current time dollars in 40 years to buy yourself something else.
Back then the original unibody Macs used to be 0.95" thick. Some how they were almost as light as today.