The new AIr has a dedicated Magsafe for charging and the 2 ports are left alone, and that is a good thing with one less dongle in the pipeline. do you need the extra ports from the M1-Pro laptop? IMO they are not a must have because the performance are not consistent across the 4 ports. The only question you need to ask yourself is. With all the improvements and increase in transistors count, the Air still maintain a fanless design and slimmer! What's there not to like? And not forgetting the new Air screen is now true 10bit colours. I read performance jumps from 11TOPS to 15.8TOPS for the same amount of cores. If you're running software like Topaz AI suite, the improved neural engine performance will be a big welcome. At 24GB, you can literally throw all sorts of things at it including coding without breaking much sweat, if you're a programmer.

I always feel the old M1 has been restricted by 16GB of ram but that has all changed. Other than the improved CPU/GPU performance, the new M2 has built in video codecs even for 8K video. It is only the base models that have immediate availability. What's the reason for delay? I'd bet that a 24GB 2TB M2 Air will be similarly delayed.

But with external monitor and SSD, there's no port for a card reader.īased on early info, the M2 Air will run cooler than the M1 Macbook Proz. M2 Air has MagSafe charging, so you don't need to waste a USB-C port when charging. Your on-order Macbook has an SD card reader. I'd say the principal difference is what ports you need. The M1 Air works fine for photography, even 100Mp. I wonder if it will more or less perform the same? How do you think the 8/10 cpu/gpu config will compare to the base 8/10 M1Pro MBP 14” performance-wise?Īs someone who has the latter MBP (8/10 and 32gb) on order (delayed to august as of now) I am tempted to cancel and buy an MBA maxed out (24gb ram, 2tb). How do you think the new M2 MBA released today will work for photography?ĭo you think it will be relatively capable handling 5k video from a gopro, 4k vids from drones, photo focus/exposure stacking for macro/astro with 20mp files, big libraries, etc?

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