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Bro whats with your bit rate with todays video
Quinn manages to surprise me with his excellent key points many other reviewers dismiss. I was a bit worried when the air launched, but I’m still an extremely happy 14” MacBook Pro user.
Only problem I have with it is a lack of windows support. And that too is only for one program, which I cannot run in a VM
Great video, Quinn! Unfortunately, really don’t agree with your takeaway on the SSD speed debacle. “twice as fast” isn’t accurate – the Single NAND 256GB model gets ~1500MB/S in R/W performance, and the 512GB ~2100/2800 in the same BlackMagic disk speed test. Copying from a ~540MB/S Samsung T5 USB 3 SSD is going to run at the exact same rate on both machines. Total, total non-issue.
How do I know? I’ve got one, and an m1 Pro 16″ with a much faster SSD.
Could be my math but the MBA M2 is 1.24kg and the lightest config of the MacBook Pro 14″ is 1.61kg, making it 30% heavier (not 20% as per the video)…not insignificant by any means.
Great video.
I would use mag safe if it worked like a USB-C port so it would carry the data as well. For power only it is worthless, why would I ever use two cables instead of one?
Thanks now I’m not going to use time on shit MacBooks
Good
The review I’ve been waiting for. Cheers
thank you for mentioning the prices in Spain! We are often forgotten, but yeah the price for the new M2 models make no sense at all. If you’re eligible for a student discount or you get a discounted MBPro14/16 from Amazon it makes no sense to buy the new models. Really disappointed with Apple’s pricing this year, the MBAir went up like 300€ for a marginally better product
If you advertised for the Grand Seiko, I’d go to the nearest authorized dealer and get one for myself <3
Thank you for lifting the fog. Lots of contrary videos being posted about this machine, but your video really cleared things up for me.
WTF how does he know exactly that I thought about the shirt in the beginning of the video. 😳
One of the worst reviews I’ve seen on the M2 Macbook Air. It seems you chose a narrative to go with and focused your whole video to justify it. Who flexes their keyboards like that to care about keyboard flex? If the magsafe connection was as strong on the air as the pro while being lighter it would render it useless and tripping on the cable would bring the laptop down with it. Showing how it falls out while on your lap is so exaggerated, it’s stronger than the previous generation of magsafe and that was never an issue then. You seemed to omit a number of things that have been upgraded compared to the M1 like higher impedance headphone support, which lets you use a high end headphone without the need for an amplifier, 10 bit panel, larger trackpad, extra GPU core, the 50% faster memory and 40% faster neural engine (which will only get more important with OS updates), and upgraded efficiency cores to improve low power mode. The touchpad click is better than the macbook pro from 2015, so not bad at all and I prefer a quieter click. You make it seem like the slower SSD is a huge problem when it’s not, unless you are exporting a large file or doing something else that saturates the SSD then memory swap is not as issue at all, you can open dozens of youtube videos and tabs and experience no slowdown when using memory swap. The base model is more than enough for most people that the laptop is targeted for. You also failed to mention those who get an education discount for the M2 which makes it’s price much more attractive. How is it sandwiched between the M1 air and M1 pro when it’s significantly cheaper than the pro and a modest bump in price over the M1? (This is an exception is some countries obviously but not most) The M1 air is an extremely outdated design and an 18 month old piece of technology.
Oh come on, the sound of the track-pad is not as good? With some much new technology to choose from people have become so spoiled and started to nitpick about every single thing in a laptop. Yes, it’s not perfect – nothing is and there’s always a downside (it’s too big, too heavy, too expensive, not fast enough and whatnot). People looking for portability would still chose it over the 14 MBP, if being “just” 20% lighter is not good enough, then get a iPad. Not everyone is content creator that will constantly export 30 min 4k videos and have throttling issues btw.
5:04 quinn: “versus the old m1 macbook air”
also quinn: * compares it to the m1 pro/max macbook pro *
The awkward middle child!
Finally a nuanced, rational review with a spot on conclusion. Thanks for this, keep up the good work! 💪
Same story in germany. Cancelled air order when I noticed and got a pro instead.
You say the m1 pro MacBook Pro has better battery life than the m2 air, but didn’t show any battery comparisons? I find that hard to believe considering apple’s battery graphs and personal experience with the m1 air vs the m1 pro. Battery is more important to me than performance, so I was going to get the m2 air until you mentioned that.