It will still do what you need for less price, albeit a little slower. If the MB Pro is out of your price range, get a mid-range M2 MacBook Air. If you’re a business professional, and you work in an industry such as networking, IT, ministry or youth ministry, accounting, teaching, marketing, or any categories like that, you can probably make it just fine with a 14- or 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip.
It’s been wonderful so far, and fast enough for all my workflows. I do a lot of video editing and compression and design work, and I have the base-model M1 Pro MacBook Pro. Your render and export times will be cut in half, your computer will stay much cooler because the MacBook Pro has active cooling (meaning: a fan) where the M2 Air does not. The M1 Pro chip puts you on a whole other level with these applications and workflows. But if you are editing 4K or 8K video, working with huge layout or photo files, you’ll need to at least bump up to the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip. If you are a design/film student, meaning you will be using applications like Photoshop and Final Cut Pro on the regular, you should be able to get by with the M2 MacBook Air. The only problem with the M2 Air is that it’s brand new and you might not get one until September. You always want to get as much RAM and storage as you can afford (you will see that theme in this article), but 99% of you should be able to get by with 16GB and 1TB of storage. If you’re not a design student using Photoshop and InDesign and Final Cut Pro and other intensive applications, you should be good with the baseline M2 MacBook Air. This laptop has a new slim design, new colors, and is powerful enough for almost every task you can throw at it. If you are a student, in high school or especially college, most students (about 90% of you) should be able to get by with the brand-new M2 MacBook Air. No one should buy this computer in my opinion.Īgain, these all all my opinions, but I talk to lots of people, young and old, every year and advise them on buying new computers or iPads. Yes, it has an M2 and active cooling, but you can get so much more for less. So being a nerd, I’m here to help.įirst off, do not buy the old-style 13-inch Macbook Pro, still with the TouchBar. That’s good, but it makes it more confusing for the non-nerd.
It’s gotten a little more confusing as of late because of the range of Apple’s new M1 (and now M2) chips and the variety of machines you can buy now. Around this time of year, I usually get a lot of calls and texts with that very question - “What Mac should I buy?”
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