I'm looking to purchase one of two mac laptops in the next few days and as indicated in the title, I need help. I've struggled and just can't make up my mind so here's the dilemma. I'm trying to decide between a M4 Macbook pro with 16GB of unified memory and a M4 Macbook Air with 24GB of memory. They both have 1TB of storage. There's less than a hundred dollar difference, with tax, in price BUT...I would like the computer to last at least 7 or 8 years. (my current Macbook Pros are 2015's) The new computer would be used mostly for photo editing now but I want to get into some video editing in the near future. I'll be using Photomator and DaVinci Resolve. I like the portability of the Air, along with the increased memory, but I like the ports and screen of the Pro. I don't usually have very many items open at the same time especially when I'm editing my photos so I'm not sure I'd experience much difference in 16 or 24 gigs of memory but I also wonder if thermal throttling might negate the benefit of additional memory in the Air. I don't think I need the M4 Pro but I'm also thinking about the standard config of that model, with 24GB memory and 512 GB of storage, for about $250 more. I just don't know. Would the M4 Pro give me a good ten years like my 2015's have? I'm retired so saving a few bucks always helps but if I can get an additional 3 years from the M4 Pro I could stretch my budget but that would be as far as I could go. Finally I do have a couple of nice 27" monitors that I can connect any of them to so that's not an issue. I don't want to "waste" $$$'s and I've watched every YT video on the two units and some reviewers say the Air...some say the Pro. In closing I'd like to say Thank you for taking your valuable time to help me out. I really do appreciate it. I look forward to your responses. Thanks again.
