Hi,
Thanks to another MR user highlighting the Costco sale, I'm debating a MBA as in the UK I can get an M4 13" MBA with 16 GB and 1 TB SSD for £950 new.
Allowing for the huge price differential between this and a MBP (base MBP 14 starts at £1999), am I losing anything in the display by getting the MBA? i.e., is it still decent? I do like the 120 Hz display of the MBP...but it comes at twice the price.
I know what the MBP display looks like as I have seen them in the Apple store, but the M4 MBA has been replaced by the M5 MBA and so isn't available to look at in the Apple store. Do they have the same displays, or did Apple change them with the refresh?
I'm hoping to get 5-7 years at a minimum out of it, so want to be sure while I'm getting a "bargain", I'm not going to regret it (I hate making snap purchase decisions). I mostly want it for programming and presentations, otherwise I'm more than happy with my iPad for everything else on-the-go.
To give a full picture of my thinking, I'd rather buy another Mini or even a Studio if I'm throwing MBP money around, but obviously they are more desktop than mobile devices. With the available discount for EoL, the MBA looks reasonable value.
The spec is fixed, but quite happy that it has 1 TB SSD. I can afford for it to hammer the SSD swapping in that case.
Thanks to another MR user highlighting the Costco sale, I'm debating a MBA as in the UK I can get an M4 13" MBA with 16 GB and 1 TB SSD for £950 new.
Allowing for the huge price differential between this and a MBP (base MBP 14 starts at £1999), am I losing anything in the display by getting the MBA? i.e., is it still decent? I do like the 120 Hz display of the MBP...but it comes at twice the price.
I know what the MBP display looks like as I have seen them in the Apple store, but the M4 MBA has been replaced by the M5 MBA and so isn't available to look at in the Apple store. Do they have the same displays, or did Apple change them with the refresh?
I'm hoping to get 5-7 years at a minimum out of it, so want to be sure while I'm getting a "bargain", I'm not going to regret it (I hate making snap purchase decisions). I mostly want it for programming and presentations, otherwise I'm more than happy with my iPad for everything else on-the-go.
To give a full picture of my thinking, I'd rather buy another Mini or even a Studio if I'm throwing MBP money around, but obviously they are more desktop than mobile devices. With the available discount for EoL, the MBA looks reasonable value.
The spec is fixed, but quite happy that it has 1 TB SSD. I can afford for it to hammer the SSD swapping in that case.
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