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The 15" Air screen is beautiful.
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kp98077
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kp98077
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I love the size of the 15in. It makes getting work done so much easier. I'm just annoyed with a couple little things. I already own the M1 MBA.
kp98077
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dusk007
macrumors 68040
I am quite happy with 15. Had the 14" pro before and my wife has one too from work.
It is blazing fast coming from a 2019 13". Obviously that is more than just the CPU but Mem/SSD/GPU/...
And amazingly it doesn't really get warm under normal use. I expected worse. In general I feel it is even a tiny bit faster than the M1 Pro 14". Throtteling is a non issue except on rare occassions where some longer build (or more likely a bug) might trigger it but then I never notice the difference.
But having used the 14" pro before I feel that battery life is quite a lot better in semi serious use. Yes all MX Apple notebooks got good battery life but it was still not quite a full day and I still brought the charger along. With docker, jetbrains and some more it did not easily make the workday.
The M2 being just a fair bit less hungry the full day (leave the charger at home) battery life is a bit closer. Still with 20% more it would be safer. It is a well built notebook and very solid but it is also actually thick enough that compared to thin windows notebooks it seems that a thin fan and more battery should have been possible.
Ergonomics with the thinner chassis is definitely a lot better and for 95% of what I do (100% work related things) I would take it over a 14". The Pro whether 14 or 16 is only better for media consumption and games obviously.
For me as a developer the 15" Air is the more pro notebook. The actual Pro has worse ergonomics and none of the better specs actually make a difference. But the better allround everything notebook is the 16".
BTW: I got 24GB and 1TB SSD but with usual RAM sitting around 20G (8G app,2G wired,10G compressed) used 3G cached and 5G swapped I am glad I do have all that memory. My memory pressure is still usually in the yellow range. I think it is enough but I feel quite a bit of lagginess people would blame on M2 vs M2 Pro is actually just memory if they only have 16 or even just 8.
It is blazing fast coming from a 2019 13". Obviously that is more than just the CPU but Mem/SSD/GPU/...
And amazingly it doesn't really get warm under normal use. I expected worse. In general I feel it is even a tiny bit faster than the M1 Pro 14". Throtteling is a non issue except on rare occassions where some longer build (or more likely a bug) might trigger it but then I never notice the difference.
But having used the 14" pro before I feel that battery life is quite a lot better in semi serious use. Yes all MX Apple notebooks got good battery life but it was still not quite a full day and I still brought the charger along. With docker, jetbrains and some more it did not easily make the workday.
The M2 being just a fair bit less hungry the full day (leave the charger at home) battery life is a bit closer. Still with 20% more it would be safer. It is a well built notebook and very solid but it is also actually thick enough that compared to thin windows notebooks it seems that a thin fan and more battery should have been possible.
Ergonomics with the thinner chassis is definitely a lot better and for 95% of what I do (100% work related things) I would take it over a 14". The Pro whether 14 or 16 is only better for media consumption and games obviously.
For me as a developer the 15" Air is the more pro notebook. The actual Pro has worse ergonomics and none of the better specs actually make a difference. But the better allround everything notebook is the 16".
BTW: I got 24GB and 1TB SSD but with usual RAM sitting around 20G (8G app,2G wired,10G compressed) used 3G cached and 5G swapped I am glad I do have all that memory. My memory pressure is still usually in the yellow range. I think it is enough but I feel quite a bit of lagginess people would blame on M2 vs M2 Pro is actually just memory if they only have 16 or even just 8.
Saturn007
macrumors 68000
Hello Apple, your 13” M1 MBA looks a bit blue to me! 🙈😁
Trust you don’t run them normally at maximum brightness! What do they look like at, say, 40% brightness? How do they compare at that level with true tone ON and then with it OFF?
Which laptop is the camera focused on? See whether that makes a difference. But, again, at normal brightness.
Are you under fluorescent lights, LED, or incandescence? Or, natural light? That could affect this, too!
In my experience, one gets used to the shade after a while, whether yellower, bluer, creamier, or whiter…
Trust you don’t run them normally at maximum brightness! What do they look like at, say, 40% brightness? How do they compare at that level with true tone ON and then with it OFF?
Which laptop is the camera focused on? See whether that makes a difference. But, again, at normal brightness.
Are you under fluorescent lights, LED, or incandescence? Or, natural light? That could affect this, too!
In my experience, one gets used to the shade after a while, whether yellower, bluer, creamier, or whiter…