M2 MacBook Air - The Student Experience!
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2022
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Thank you for your review
Nice review! And you actually talked about the category of users I’d fall into, i. e those who prefer portability. I hesitated between the pro 14 or a pumped up M2 but you helped me decide. Cheers
Thank you for all the clarifications that it is a great device ,I dream of it a lot , but its price is expensive for me, I hope to get it even if it is used.🙂
Thank you for your amazing reviews always on point!❤️
Thanks for watching and the nice comment!
@@HarrisCraycraft you are welcome🙂
Thanks, Harris! I needed this! Great video, and I’m looking forward to getting an M2! 😇
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The m2 mba in starlight looks so rich and elegant but also in some other pics its looks a bit yellow...
Very well made video! You give the impression of a way bigger channel.
Thank you!
I got M1 pro 16 inch for school. I will say battery is beast. Performance is good. One drawback I would say is types of compatability for software. I'm an electrical engineering student and found that certain applications like pspice won't work on Mac; it will only run on windows. So overall really good device but compatability can be frustrating at times
Thank you very much, you helped me decide as an electrical engineering student as well..
Have a great day
I appreciate hearing your perspective! Glad you're enjoying the machine
I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member and agree that apps like pspice run better in Windows. As such, I use Parallels on my Mac with Windows 11. I just got the M2 Air. Portability is important to me. Parallels is lightning fast on Apple silicon. You can pick up the student discount for Parallels. The M1 Air is a great computer and awesome value if you need portability. The discounted 14” M1 Pro MacBook (at $1599 at Bestbuy) is also a great value, but heavier. I had an M1 MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD and ran out of storage with Windows present plus the extra engineering apps. The 512GB is a better idea. Though you can use an external SSD, that defeats the purpose of portability. Parallels and Windows and the engineering apps need to be on the internal drive. The 8GB / 512GB with 10 GPUs is a OK compromise when running Parallels on an M2 Air. The faster RAM handles Swap very well, when needed. (It uses 1.5GB Swap with Parallels and mail and a browser with 10 tabs open, plus a few background apps). The 16GB M2 Air upgrade is a better choice, but you also need to do 512GB to avoid slower RAM and limited storage. That bumps the price into the 14” M1 Pro range. Bottom line - an M1 Air with 512GB / 16GB is a great value. Great video Harris and all the best for college Harris and Fernando! Subscribed!
It must be so heavy
Thank you for your understanding and you have all the appreciation ,I dream of ,but Unfortunately ,very expensive, thank you for more giving.🙂
Great review! Possible vid in the near future of MacBook Air v. iPad for school?
Eh, realistically probably not. Only so many videos I actually end up getting done these days
Great video
The mark on the wall drove me crazy! 😂
I got the laptop for school and barely use it lol definitely gonna try to use the most out of it in the future
I really couldn’t care less about the slower ssd speeds, I come from an age of Hdds that have 100mb read and 100mb write which is astronomical slower than the fuss being made about “1700 read and write vs 2500 read and write.” as well as the fact that I’m not gonna be transferring 100gb of files everyday, if so I’d be considering the mbp anyway and another thing is that in my country the difference between mba and mbp, heck a maxed out mba would only be close to that mbp and the mild upgrades I got on my mba is not even touching the mbp and I was not gonna spend that much money on a laptop with the, yes faster M1 Pro but like not that much faster or not faster to the point where it’s worth the extra price, so the mba was a no brained for me as I didn’t need to save much money and go for m1 mba but I also wasn’t gonna spend way over my budget for the mbp.
😂 yeah the good old days of 33Mbs read and write on IDE spinning HD’s 3:12 and people now complain about 1700 vs 2500 … if only they’d had the same experience.
Better this or a iPad Pro 12.9? my main uses are: underlining books and creating files on word (university use), which is better?
Agree, for a student - first preference would be MBA M1 and for professionals and business purposes - they can think about MBP 13 over MBA M2 considering it has an active cooling system with in-built fan.
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This guy is very beautiful. I do watch his videos because i just love his accent and his looks.. OMG...
Good video
But the issue is that I dont mind buying the m1 from 2020 yet the price is still a 1,200 dollars on apple's refurbished website for the 512gb and I cant finance it whereas with the newest 2023 version its 1299 for the 13 inch macbook air m2 and I can finance it with apples card and get 3% cash back plus 0% interest for 12 months.
Did you feel any heat issue?
I think if you're not going M2 Air for it's lightness with 16GB RAM, then just jump to a 10 Core M1 Pro (and forget the M1 air because that was when Apple were testing their new silicon chips and that will be fast outdated by the end of 2022/23.)
I want to get the 14" for all the extra features as a daily but - having gone to the store "again" the MBA M2 is just so much lighter compared to the Pro and find that after a while the weight might get old❗
@@TerryManitoba in waiting until Apple intergrate the new 3nm transistors in 2023 and getting the 14" M2 MAX. I may wait for the 2nm chips in 2024, but I'm not very patient and by then Putin could have blown us all to shit or global warming burns us all to death so... Yeah the M2 MAX or M3 3nm nodes are when I'm changing. AMD Ryzen 7000 series is out next month,be interesting to see the bench marks,I think Apple need to pull their socks up with the new Intel and AMD chips.
@@TerryManitoba there may be a M2 PRO AND MAX version of the MacBooks launched in October. Hold fast. 😂
@@Darragh1 Sure
To be honest, I bought the M2 Air just to admire the new design and flex on my friends. Also, the M2 Air is a little bit quicker than my TV at home which is ridiculous. I personally like the speakers on this new machine due to its base sound. Those are way better than the speakers on windows laptop. Before that I bought the M2 Air, my school gave me a Dell which is so slow, heavy and big. It has that butterfly keyboard with the old diving board trackpad. It's just a pain let alone that I prefer MacOS.
I never owned two working laptops. When I was in college my moneyed parents would never agree buying a new one if it's not a replacement for a broken or irreparable unit. I guess it's a matter of principle.
Is a 800$ a steal? For a like new condition??
Now that the MB Pro has recently been discounted❗
Would you have considered the discounted MBPro instead of the MBA M2 (16/512) if you had to decide today❓ (let's call it $250 more for the Pro for a whole lot more of a computer)
(or does the extra size and weight make it that much less enjoyable to use on a daily basis)
I ask as I am trying to decide between the two
I don't need the extra power of the Pro - but every other feature is appealing (except the size & weight).
As Conor McGregor says, "power beats speed", if my laptop was as slow as a sloth 🦥 and I was pulling my hair out of my head, then I would go for a 14" M1 PRO (but the one with the most cores) as it actually runs more efficiently than the M1 MAX and add 16GBs of RAM.
@@Darragh1 Good to know. THX
Here in italy you cant find a NEW m1pro...only refurb ones at 600+ more than a NEW mba m2
How do you think about new iPhone 14
Sad that the Mini is going away
@@HarrisCraycraft yeah buddy , i am also sad
Hi bro. I use Hospital software, 1080p or sometimes 4k Video editing , Lots of powerpoint, Google docs/sheets, PDF reading. Gaming : ETS2, ATS and World of Tanks Blitz. Which laptop should I buy? The M2 Macbook Air or the 14 inch which I'm getting for $1599?
14 inch all the way! With the 14 inch your getting a way better display, more powerful chip, and better speakers!
@@Someonesomewhere000 And I have an offer to get it for $1599 and $1499 with exchange. So I'm thinking about getting it
Man that air is light though. I got the pro but I like that feeling on the air for everyday on the go use. Also I'm using it for school.
@@lewngshelewng5420 I would really love the light weight but it is thermally not that great and is literally just $100 less than the Pro at 16Gb and 512Gb
@@evergrandebestrealestate4854 yeah just thought it was a noticeable difference in both, after i got the 14 pro i felt it kind of big compared to the air. The comparison in the videos is good but if your spending 1500 on something i would say wait and feel them out. If you NEED the computer to be the best fastest then just get the pro-14. You can also wait to see what apple releases the 7th of September maybe it's the 14 pro m2.
What your spec?
With the M2 how is the overheating situation? If you watch a lot of movies and youtube... does it overheats fast?
Not at all
Nope. I've had mine for about a month now and it hasn't overheated once
it overheats if you have a lot of stress on it for a LONG time. I'm talking like a hour, but other than that, probably not. just don't stress the chip too bad
How is it a student perspective review man ? U are just telling the specs ..
idk what this dude will do when he finishes school lol.
Should I go for MBA M2 or MBP M1? Little confused.
If you still havent made a decision, depends on what you're going to do with it. Basic tasks just get the M2
I have the 256gb m2 air, and I’m seeing a lot of videos saying the space is a problem, should I be worried, or will this last me for the next 4-5 years, also I’m not really a big computer guy nor do I highly rely on my computer for my studies
thats what im worrying about but no computer nerds reply to us 🙄
@@karlllllllllllll Honestly if you don't keep a lot of software on your mac and mainly use it for streaming, writing, browsing, etc., you could get away with 256gb fine. I think the real issue is you don't realise how fast space does fill up on a mac. After a couple of years you may very well have collected a lot stuff that will fill it up.. buuuut still not technically an issue if you're able to store a bunch of those things say in iCloud. Hope I helped!
@@martinal6026 you did, but shouldnt lemme make a scenario, in 4 years i use 200gb out of 256, i buy a Samsung ssd, can’t i just remove unnecessary files or transport them from mac to ssd, or ssd to mac?
@@karlllllllllllll Yes, you can. I have been doing that with my 128gb mac, but it is a bit of a headache in the long run. Also, keep in mind 256gb is more like 218gb
@@martinal6026 ah alright thanks alot
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Intro is before that
What’s your major ?
Communication and Philosophy
Unrelated but you're cute - and thanks for the insight!
Enough to make me want to stay with my M1. But it’s on sale and it’s only $110 difference. So I’m gonna go with the M2. But I say only $110 because I added up all the math, and the difference was only 110 for me. I’m going to go get it. And since I already had the M1 before and it broke in me. Why not get the M2
Good video
Great video