Poll: *** The official 2022 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M2 chip, MagSafe and everything!) ***
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Can’t see why you’d buy an M1 13 over an Air.
They should rename the 13 just MacBook. It clearly doesn’t match the rest of the Pro line.
They should rename the 13 just MacBook. It clearly doesn’t match the rest of the Pro line.
Caporegime
Magsafe? What the?
Caporegime
Why are they going back to MagSafe.
Ah, seems 2021 models reintroduced it.... I guess my comment is a bit late.
But what's nice is it is also able to be charged via USB C, so it's a win-win
You get a minor benefit of it disconnecting if you accidentally trip over the cable.
Apple get a huge benefit from it being proprietary and the ability to charge you more for it.
I was tempted by the Air to replace my 2015 mbp, but the base ram is still too low, and the 1 external monitor cap too limiting.
Caporegime
By the time you add decent ram and storage your near £1700 which is 14 MBP price.
Soldato
There is also the added benefit of reducing wear on the TB4 ports.
Admittedly I doubt it’s a big issue but on my Intel MacBook Pro 19 one of the ports did become noticeably looser over time. Just added piece of mind.
That is one thing to consider given I'd definitely want to have 16Gb/512Gb if I bought a Macbook Air M2. The 16/512 Air is £1650 (£1750 with 10-core GPU) Versus £1900 for the 14" MBP.
Personally though I'd still opt for the Macbook Air given it's thinner/lighter and has the M2 CPU (definitely quicker single core and probably similar Multicore to the M1 Pro also likley with a better battery life). If they upgraded the Macbook Pro 14 to an M2 Pro chip I'd probably go for that instead though. I only ever connect my Macbook to a single 34" Ultrawide (3440x1440) monitor so the lack of support for multiple external displays isn't an issue for me. Disappointing that it still has that limitation though.
It'll be an interesting comparion to see how the M1, M1 Pro and M2 compare when benchmarks are released.
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Caporegime
The 14 MPB is £1765 for the base, at least that’s what is regularly discounted at places like John Lewis, Amazon and Curry’s.
I wouldn’t overlook the M1pro having more performance cores vs M1/M2 vanilla.
Soldato
Possibly as fast or a little faster than the base 14 (8 core) but it won’t be faster than the 10 core M1 Pro’s.
Unless you're doing 8K renders or large project builds, the real world performance is likely negligible even for high-performance burst workloads.
I agree. That’s why on balance I feel a m2 MacBook Air is a better option than an m1 pro MacBook Pro even if there’s only a few hundred pounds difference between them for the weight, battery and single core improvements.
Caporegime
To be honest CPU performance has never been an issue for me even on the M1 vanilla, but the things I do thing I appreciate on the 14 Pro vs new Air are the additional screen space, the XDR promotion display, better speakers, additional ports, more than 1 monitor support and more ports (HDMI, SD Card, more USB-C). It's a great time to be buying an Apple PC, so many good choices!
Man of Honour
I really like the idea of the rumoured 12" MacBook. As much as I love my iPad Pro with the keyboard case, Apple are not in the short term, going to make it a more capable work machine for certain tasks, like a lot of us hoped when they put an M1 chip in it. So a 12" MacBook would be a perfect replacement, just a shame it's not meant to be released until 2023/2024
