I bought the M2 Air when it came out and have really enjoyed it so far. My use case so far was entertainment, taking notes, creating some light iMovies and some light coding. It is also my first Mac and I was debating between the M1 Pro and the M2 Air at the time. I decided to go with the air because of the design and weight. (The design is what sold me on the M2 instead of the M1 Air)
I second this, and the base model works great for these uses. I also have an m1 pro mbp for the more intensive tasks that need more power, but I rarely end up using it.
I used the 14” M1 Pro for 6 months. I’m not a very heavy user. I sometimes make video animations in Blender using Cycles & light coding in Xcode. I switched to the M2 Air 2 months ago and I’ve loved it so much! It’s portability over performance for me. Think about what your prioritise. The 14” was too heavy and chunky for me. The sharp edges dug into my wrists a lot. It was very problematic for me when typing for long.
@@attentional_blinks yo! I sold it to a friend’s dad who has his own business of laptops and computers. M2 Air is brilliant for me. Just remember to buy 16gb ram and not 8Gb.
! Hi ), Am planing to get my first MacBook I ll use the MacBook Air for 1. Multiple tabs in browser - article reading and TH-cam videos. 2. Content viewing. 3. Ppt 3. Since am planing to get iPhone 15 pro, may be learn to do minor photo & video editing ( tour videos). 4. Teleradiology ( viewing and very minor graphic processing 2D to volume rendering) _ bigger screen is better here. 5. Use my iPad as sidecar in reporting. 6. May connect a monitor in future. With these uses, Since MacBook Air is well built am planing to use for atleast few years 5plus Should I get 8 or 16 gb ram keeping in mind on the works and future proofing for macOS updates.
Have been using the M2 air (16, 512) for a week now & have been pretty stoked so far. Absolutely beautiful machine. I appreciate the argument that the M1 Pro or M1 Air offer more value for money. But for me, the M2 Air's design and form factor was the most important part. The M1 Pro may offer better performance, but I'm not a pro user and prefer a portable machine. The M1 Air may be a better deal, but I much prefer the design of the M2 Air. Overall I chose the form factor over "value for money" and was happy to pay a little bit more to get the machine that I'll enjoy using in the long run. Regardless, hard to make a poor decision with Apple's current lineup. Go with your gut!
I bought the M2 Air for my fiancé for Christmas she loves it so far. She is a Bachelor/Master student in Neuropsychology and I feel the M2 MBA can handle her 100 tabs and more. Should last her for a couple of years. I am definitely keeping an eye out for one of those discounted M1 MBP
Used the MBP 14 inch M1 pro for a month and returned it for a macbook air m2 with 8 gbs of ram and 512 ssd. I have to say, the M2 is lightning fast, and I still haven't come across any real life scenerios where the MBP beats the MBA. I love my MBA and I don't regret switching the 14 inch MBP for the MBA.
I was able to get an M2 silver base model (the color I actually wanted) for $848 last week as an open box 5 days after its original purchase from Best Buy. I wanted something small and portable that I could take to class and work. As a graduate student in Public Health and Information Systems this machine has held up to what I do but in the coming days I’ll be able to test it further as classes for my IS degree pick up again. Excited to see how it performs compared to my main machine.
#M2 I was really on the fence between the M1 and M2 Air a few weeks ago when I decided that get my first MacBook in like a decade. What pushed me over the edge to the M2 was the hardware design with the improved screen, keyboard and magsafe. I was able to get one refurbished from apple and have been super happy with it. Coming from cheap dell cooperate machines the M2 feels like an absolute tank.
I'm currently using my m2 air right now. Don't regret it, it's my school laptop and I honestly love this thing. The midnight color is so great...but cleaning is a nightmare because I've never noticed how dirty my laptops get before I got this midnight finish, but I still love the laptop.
@@Olls1193 base M2 mac in the midnight. Great for school work, coding, etc, honestly only person preference problem is i like bigger screens, but it’s a very good laptop
I got the M2 MBA 16/512 refurbished for 1200$ and I’m extremely happy with it, had a 14 MBP before but portability is a must for me. The MBA is so slick, light and powerful for what I do. I do not edit photos or videos, I’m not a software engineer and I do not compose music. I just need a snappy, light and powerful laptop for my office work, Finance apps and light coding. Very pleased with it
@@heefq8121 it definitely is. But for LR I've seen that it can easily max out the 8GB of ram and once it's done that it can actually slow the whole process down as it can't feed the processor fast enough. On the flip side, if you can get the CPU fed fast enough, large exports will see the cpu throttle once it gets too hot (usually after 5-10 minutes). I reckon for occasional LR use and exporting maybe a few tens to couple hundred images in one go, it's going to be fine.
#M2 - i have always been a windows user and decided to switch over to apple. I am a full stack developer and one day, i tried my friends macbook air m1 to see what the hype was about. Immediately fell in love with the sleekness and how it functions. Got the M2 right after work that day because of how sick it looked!
Quality of Content is increasing in every video I personally like how you explain every small detail about macs and other things 🔥 Keep going andres 👍🏻
given that where i am, the 14 inch M1 Pro Macbook Pro was already the same price as I paid for my M2 Macbook Air… i should’ve got that, but only because the Air struggles in applications like After Effects, which ive just learnt i need to do on my desktop for a portable, regular use machine? the M2 Air is still a beast and I love it.
#M2 At 12:25 when you're controlling the M2 Air with the M1 that is called Universal Control! What's really terrifying about it is you can move files directly from one device to the other one just by dragging it. As magical as that sounds it is even more magical when you actually do it and you can also do it with you iPad as well as long as you're signed in with the same Apple ID!! It's wild magical tech lol
I'm leaning to the Pro/Max series but it's amazing just how the M1/M2 Air opens up developers and creatives in general to power for under $1000, which would have cost several times as much a few years ago. Sure, it's not going to replace a 128 core RTX rig, but you can churn a lot of great stuff relatively seamlessly compared to an x86 in a similar price range.
I've been using the macbook air for 5 months, I'm a web developer and a university student of systems engineering. I went from having a dell gamer laptop to having this one. The change has been radical, super light, it navigates super smoothly through the interface. I have the base model and is faster than my old dell with intel i5 9th with ssd and 16gb of ram. I would buy it again.
Man…I’ve grown to really like your channel. Keep up the good work. And yes, for me the reason I picked the m2 over the m1 was for $200 more, I got a slightly bigger and brighter screen. That’s it. Viewing comfort is important to me and that extra brightness really helps me out when I’m feeling a bit sluggish. Hopefully that makes sense to y’all. Thanks again for your awesome content. Cheers from la
Thank you so much Rafa! I appreciate it a lot. Im going to be doing a "How To Setup Your MacBook" video. I'll give a few tips and tricks and how I like doing things myself! Enjoy your macbook man!
I've had a MBP in the past but I never really used it at its full capacity for the price I paid for it. So I decided on buying the M2 MacBook Air recently and I honestly do not regret it (so far) because it fits the basic needs that I will be using it for on a daily basis. It's lighter and sure, it is smaller than I am used it but I don't hate it. The only thing I wish I considered more was buying one with 512GB of SSD memory but that would've be +$200 and I happened to have gotten a great deal with my brand new M2 MacBook that I just could not pass the basic model and pay $250 less than current price of $1199.
I got 16 / 512 M2 Air. As a fullstack developer, and a multitasker, the machine is insane. Coming from windows, I had so much pain in the ass while setting an old version of LAMP for my company, but everything else is great. I used pro models too, and they are thick, dense and heavy AF, and for what, more gpu cores? No thanks. I feel like air and pro should have some CPU gap too but they don't really, and perform same on low power mode, which you should be on while on battery anyways. 15 inch Air will be a solid choice when it comes out. But 13.6 is very compact and capable.
@@str1kez367 winter sales at a local store at my country. I guess they wanted to get rid of the stock cause I am pretty sure there was only one left cause when I ordered it it immediately went out of stock
Just recommended your channel as i”m looking for a new M book. Husky like I have in the garage in your production area. SWEET! Instant cred and now it gives me proper permission to add one to my man cave remodel so I can organize all the crap that sits out and should be in an easily accessible tool box. Thanks for being cool!
@@ravalence i use it for web development. i have it since september 2022 and i always use it 8 hours a day. never had a single issue. but i cant say for softwares development or video rendering or extremely intensive tasks. for me i run vs code, youtube, blog videos, multiple chrome tabs, terminal and shitload of stuff in background and works well.
Just bought the m2 air as my first ever Mac, I’ve always relied on my custom built windows/intel gaming pc for everything. I upgraded the 13 inch to 512 SSD (if I need more I’ll buy external) and 16g of ram, I really think that’s the sweet spot with this awesome machine! It’s cool learning about how OP the pros are I’m excited to join the apple computer community at last!
#M2 - I use the base M2 Air and it has been great for my use case. I do occasional light video editing and web browsing. Mostly everyday tasks. No issues at all.
The last time I bought a Mac was a 15” MacBook Pro in 2016, and it blew my mind that for the price I bought my older comp I can max out an M2 MacBook Air and get over 4 times the ram and the space and it won’t be as heavy. Yes my old comp has all the old ports but I’ll take a dongle if it means I can get 2TB of space and more ram than I’ll need in it’s lifetime. I started doing video editing on my old Mac and decided to upgrade since the fans would kick in every time I tried editing and it would lag really bad. I’m hoping with the M2 I can increase the speed and quality of my new videos. But I’m excited! Especially since my old computer won’t update past Big Sur so now I’ll get to learn all the new software updates.
I bought M2 Air because of it's design. I love notch, flat edges, and midnight blue. Heavy workloads is not a thing to confuse, because I got my Core i9 PC that runs both Hackintosh and Windows.
Love the video quality and a lot details you have touched in this. Youe studio looks amazing. I really like that a lot. I've been following you since from almost the start and really happy to see that youe TH-cam channel is growing 👍
I am a computer science student and I am using the base model MacBook Air m1, I had courses in C, Python, java and not even once the laptop showed weakness or slowing down. Its enough for a student for sure.
I have a m2 MacBook Air and I have enjoyed it. I have the 8gb and 512 SSD and I have experienced the ram filling up with just some safari tabs but overall it’s been perfect for school.
@@WillAlonzoF1 if you had the funds I will go for the 16gb ram version and stick with the 256 SSD. But if you’re gonna use the MacBook just for internet and little school work you’ll be just fine with the 8gb and 256ssd
i had the m1 air for 2.5 years and honestly that laptop was a beast. though my work has changed which require more ram i had to upgrade to the pro 32gb ram recently.
Killer review Andres! Keep up the awesome reviews. Still on my M1 Air -- this thing is a beast. Although if I were to upgrade I'd probably be going for a refurb M1 Pro 14.
I was a proud owner of the m2 MacBook Air midnight color with the 512g.. but then i started getting the safari warnings of not being able to open up webpages due to not enough memory which i had plenty of storage but ram i was hitting 7gig of ram. And i didn’t know what was going on. Im a student, although i do do a lot of multitasking with TH-cam in the background and multiple tabs open but they never exceeded 10. I did have other apps like Microsoft word, craft (my note taking app) and voice memos from my saved lectures running at the same time.. Best Buy guy told me this laptop wasn’t enough so got me to upgrade to the MacBook Pro M1 Pro. Which im liking the screen and speaker quality on it. But i do miss the MacBook Air portability. After seeing other people reviewing the MacBook Air i don’t think I’ve put that machine through what you guys put it through
I am a developer and occasionally I edit some videos. I need 512 GB storage and 16 GB memory to work comfortably daily. the store discounts on M1 MacBook Pro 14" brought the price point down to to the level of M2 MacBook Air. I didn't give a second thought. I went with it. I think in 2023 a heavy discount on 14" M1 Pro is a much better deal over upgraded M1 MacBook Air. I am in India. And, I bought it from Reliance Digital.
#M2 the feature you discovered is Universal Control. You can use one mac to control another mac and iPads cursor to drag drop files, texts, type, etc neat productivity apple ecosystem feature. Great video btw!
The US pricing is just so different. For whatever reason, it's relatively easy to pay around 1500USD for the 16/512 option of the M2 air. While it's rare to see the 14 pro base model below 1999USD. It's new laptop time for me, and the battery/performance ratio has me interested in MacBooks. I've recently gotten into some light video production with a friend. And even the M2 air seems like it's much more powerful than my 5 year old enterprise grade windows machine, which does the workflow just fine. These videos confuse me as some, like, you say the M2 air simply cannot do any kind of video or photo editing. It will crash and fail, you *need* the pro. If that's the case, what is apple doing? I can do these tasks on a half decade old Thinkpad without discrete graphics...
the midnight M2 MacBook Air is really a joy to have! i love how light and portable it is. i'm also in college and a content creator and for where i'm at it literally gets the job DONE. i am currnetly going to get the Mac mini so i can have a desktop computer so i'm ready to test that out too
I think Apple fans expected too much from a second generation; efficiency and power were always going to be amazing going from x86 to ARM. But from M1 to M2; it’s almost as if they were expecting at least 50%+ gains in every single category. And, in my opinion, this is the fault of our consumer age. Consume consume consume, without patience or thought. It’s kind of sad that technological advancements are stifled by people who have zero patience.
How are advancements stifled by over-expectation of consumers? This makes no sense. They're not directly connected factors, and even if they were, surely higher expectations would lead to better innovation.
Have been using my Macbook Air M2 since it came out... I have a 16,512 config and I would say its been crazy good experience coming from a Windows pc user... Love the intro btw... Keep doing this man
#M2 I got the base model M2 Air in midnight on launch day. I'm the pastor of a small church, so the church bought it for me to upgrade from the 2017 12 inch MacBook I'd been using for the previous 5 years (that laptop wasn't near as bad as some say!). I don't have a crazy workload as far as computing power goes. The most intensive things I do on it are Photoshop and audio editing. I think the base model has plenty of horsepower for the majority of people. My laptop is docked at my desk about 95% of the time, so wear and tear hasn't been much of an issue. I just wipe it off after taking it on the go the one or two times a week I have to. The fingerprints on the midnight color are no joke. I would echo what many have said...if you're on any Intel based Mac, you will not regret the switch to an Apple silicon machine.
LOVE this. Thank you so much for sharing. I feel like these types of comments help a lot. Before I became I reviewer, I used to read comments quite often to see if the item I wanted to purchase was worth it to most people. Thanks again Chris!
#M2 - It sounds like all of the downsides of your M2 Air could be solved by not getting the base model. I just ordered the M2 Air with 24GB RAM and a 2TB SSD for web development work. Sure, the price was similar to some MacBook Pro models ($2,500), but I don't care about that, because I want the super thin design and lightweight body more than anything else, and buying a 14-inch MacBook Pro won't give me that.
@@LukePeters For sure no hate. I’m a tech review junkie. But in the end, always get what will do the job and what you want. The reviewers and commenters aren’t the ones who will be using your machine.
Thanks a lot for watching man!! Thats the whole point of this video to engage you guys into these types of conversations to see what works for some people and what doesnt for others. For example on my side, even for mobile dev as much as I can stuff up 24gb of ram, I rather just make sure I also have an HDMI port for convenience, the extra power of the M2 Pro for graphics and so on. I cant cover all opinions and use cases :/ But I try to just give my own ! I appreciate your comment!
@@andresvidoza Hey Andres, yeah for sure, I can totally appreciate that you're able to share your own opinions/use cases/needs best, and that you're also trying to provide the best advice you can for everyone else. I definitely appreciate the quality and thoroughness of your videos!
@Andres Vidoza I am a CS major student and will like to ask for your opinion regarding the M2 Air vs M2 14" Pro model. I am torn between of getting a 16GB + 512GB M2 Air or a base model M2 14" Pro. Over here, the price difference (after spec-ing up the Air) is $400. I do coding and I have ran my Zephyrus G15 to 10GB+ of RAM before. Which will you recommend?
Thanks for the video, really found it helpful. I’m really leaning to the MBA M2 as I’m a front-end developer and also do some Electron and Figma. I do very very occasional photo editing in Affinity or Laminar Neo and movies in Final Cut. So think the M2 will be enough for me. I think though I might go with the 512GB SSD with 8GB RAM though as the base would just be too small for me
#M2- i love that you're a technical tech content creator and you actually know your way around computers quite well not just the theory ..you deserve the thumbs up bro!!
I use an M2 Air, 15 inch, for about some two weeks now. Compared to my old 2017 Air, which I bought with maxed-out specs including CPU upgrade, I like the fanless design and the bigger screen. Though the 15" Air is no longer a true Air in the sense of its portability. It is a thin and lightweight 15" laptop, sure, but just a liiittle too big and too heavy. Bought the 16G/1T version because I want to use it as my main work computer, keeping the old Windows desktop for games. The Macbook performance is overall quite good but with too many applications open, it can become sluggish at times. When I remember to close Lightroom when I don't need it, it is much better. The M2 performance, especially the GPU with 10 instead of 7 or 8 cores compared to M1, is much welcomed. For home use, even editing a large batch of Raw photos while having two different Bloon TD games running in the background in order to do the daily quests, while listening to a podcast, all that without fan noise, is quite good. But quite expensive, too. I plan to add a screen later, for now my bank account has to recover from the expense :D
I have the M2 Macbook Air Maxed out with everything. It is great for everyday tasks and browsing etc but for intense tasks it does struggle. I am going to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro M2 MAX!
been using my M2 MacBook for 3-4 months now, I love it. I only use it for school so I won't do more on it then chrome and many many word documents. But I love this machine so much! #M2
With the M2 Air now regularly on sale, I don't think it will be that hard. The base model at around $1000 (a sale I've seen quite a bit lately) is a GREAT value.
Do you know if the newer M1 macbook airs are still shipping with 2 x 128gb NAND? I would think they've switched over to 1 x 256gb NAND for the newer M1 macbook airs as well. Basically once their stock of 128gb NANDs run out, they'll probably be outfitting all subsequent base models with 1 x 256gb NAND to improve their margins.
Yes they still are. I had opened my friends macbook air and it still had two nand chips inside... So from what I know, they still are shipping them like so. Good question btw... I hope it doesnt change haha
@@andresvidoza Oh man, really appreciate your reply! I've been asking this very question on SO MANY techtubers' channels for more than a few months, even those like MaxTech, nobody ever responds lol. Yeah agreed, as long as it doesn't change, the M1 MBA is the best value in not just the Apple lineup but I'd say perhaps even the entire laptop industry. Cheers Andres :))
of course the M2 is not as big as a leap like the M1 Air. But why is it viewed through the lens if an M1 user should upgrade? The M2 is there to attract buyers who don't have an Apple-silicon Macbook Air yet. If they would have continued to use M1, the performance comparison to Windows laptops would not be as favorable.
I've been stuck with the dilemma of the MacBook Air M1 vs the MacBook Air M2. I just use the MacBook for watching TH-cam, Netflix, browsing the web, working in Word documents for school, ... and every TH-camr was kinda going nuts over the 'slow SSD issue'. It drove me crazy and I was panicking regarding which model to choose. I went with the M2 and I felt bad because I was scared of this issue. Now two months later I'm so happy with my decision. The hardware changes like Magsafe and the bigger and brighter display are very nice. It's my first ever MacBook so the jump from my old, cheap (and slow...) windows pc is massive. From time to time I'm still worried about the SSD, but it seems like the 'drama' around it kinda faded away and your words did me well. The average user like me won't notice much and I probably won't notice anything ever for that fact... Thank you for calming me down. I also went with the 16GB RAM version, so this Mac is probably overkill for my usage and I'm not as worried anymore about the SSD. The most intensive work I do on a regular basis is opening multiple PDF documents and having like 10 to 20 safari tabs open at the same time and most of the time even only one tab open for TH-cam... It's an amazing laptop and even tho the M1 gives you more value for money, it's nice to have the new design that will stay modern for years to come. Again, thanks to lower my stress level... I'll definitely subscribe!
I don't use the magsafe. did not care much about the "better" screen. What I do notice is the really crappy speakers compared to my super old macbook pro, that really does piss me off. One thing is really good is how light it is, after lifting up any other pro macbooks.
I bought the M2 Air when it came out and have really enjoyed it so far. My use case so far was entertainment, taking notes, creating some light iMovies and some light coding. It is also my first Mac and I was debating between the M1 Pro and the M2 Air at the time. I decided to go with the air because of the design and weight. (The design is what sold me on the M2 instead of the M1 Air)
I second this, and the base model works great for these uses. I also have an m1 pro mbp for the more intensive tasks that need more power, but I rarely end up using it.
I third this.
I fourth
Thanks a lot boys or girls for sharing!!
I just bought and I love it. Really has a premium feeling
Cinematography is next level
haha thank you so much
I used the 14” M1 Pro for 6 months. I’m not a very heavy user. I sometimes make video animations in Blender using Cycles & light coding in Xcode. I switched to the M2 Air 2 months ago and I’ve loved it so much! It’s portability over performance for me. Think about what your prioritise. The 14” was too heavy and chunky for me. The sharp edges dug into my wrists a lot. It was very problematic for me when typing for long.
Nice!! Hows video animations in blender using the M2 Air btw?
MacBook Pro is a nice laptop it good for people who is a heavy user and MacBook Air is for people who don’t use their laptop all the time
Would you mind sharing where you sold 14" M1 Pro? I'm in a similar boat and want to make the switch to the M2 air
@@attentional_blinks yo! I sold it to a friend’s dad who has his own business of laptops and computers. M2 Air is brilliant for me. Just remember to buy 16gb ram and not 8Gb.
! Hi ), Am planing to get my first MacBook
I ll use the MacBook Air for
1. Multiple tabs in browser - article reading and TH-cam videos.
2. Content viewing.
3. Ppt
3. Since am planing to get iPhone 15 pro, may be learn to do minor photo & video editing ( tour videos).
4. Teleradiology ( viewing and very minor graphic processing 2D to volume rendering) _ bigger screen is better here.
5. Use my iPad as sidecar in reporting.
6. May connect a monitor in future.
With these uses, Since MacBook Air is well built am planing to use for atleast few years 5plus
Should I get 8 or 16 gb ram keeping in mind on the works and future proofing for macOS updates.
Have been using the M2 air (16, 512) for a week now & have been pretty stoked so far. Absolutely beautiful machine. I appreciate the argument that the M1 Pro or M1 Air offer more value for money. But for me, the M2 Air's design and form factor was the most important part. The M1 Pro may offer better performance, but I'm not a pro user and prefer a portable machine. The M1 Air may be a better deal, but I much prefer the design of the M2 Air. Overall I chose the form factor over "value for money" and was happy to pay a little bit more to get the machine that I'll enjoy using in the long run. Regardless, hard to make a poor decision with Apple's current lineup. Go with your gut!
Love it love it !! Thanks a lot I feel like these comments help people with their purchases honestly.
Even for the Pro user (I’m designer) it works amazing
Appreciate this feedback. I am so torn because I think I could use pro power, but just can't beat the design and lightness of the air.
The m2 air actually gives you better single core preformance at least in the development workflow for a lot of applications
@@gamervmidyou design with the air ?
I bought the M2 Air for my fiancé for Christmas she loves it so far. She is a Bachelor/Master student in Neuropsychology and I feel the M2 MBA can handle her 100 tabs and more. Should last her for a couple of years. I am definitely keeping an eye out for one of those discounted M1 MBP
haha thats definitely a super nice gift. you killed it! Thanks for sharing!
That's a nice gift! I am going to a similar field. Did you buy her the base model?
Used the MBP 14 inch M1 pro for a month and returned it for a macbook air m2 with 8 gbs of ram and 512 ssd. I have to say, the M2 is lightning fast, and I still haven't come across any real life scenerios where the MBP beats the MBA. I love my MBA and I don't regret switching the 14 inch MBP for the MBA.
I had an Air, but upgraded to the m1 pro 14 after I realized 16gb of ram and 512 on an m2 air was $100 less than the pro.
I was able to get an M2 silver base model (the color I actually wanted) for $848 last week as an open box 5 days after its original purchase from Best Buy. I wanted something small and portable that I could take to class and work. As a graduate student in Public Health and Information Systems this machine has held up to what I do but in the coming days I’ll be able to test it further as classes for my IS degree pick up again. Excited to see how it performs compared to my main machine.
Niiiiiice! Keep us posted. Thats a pretty sweet deal honestly. Good luck with classes!
Damn, its about 500$ more expensive in europe
#M2 I was really on the fence between the M1 and M2 Air a few weeks ago when I decided that get my first MacBook in like a decade. What pushed me over the edge to the M2 was the hardware design with the improved screen, keyboard and magsafe. I was able to get one refurbished from apple and have been super happy with it. Coming from cheap dell cooperate machines the M2 feels like an absolute tank.
You were on the phone with Timmy and Tommy lol
Super fair yeah... I feel you on that! You wont regret it honestly. Enjoy it!
I'm currently using my m2 air right now. Don't regret it, it's my school laptop and I honestly love this thing. The midnight color is so great...but cleaning is a nightmare because I've never noticed how dirty my laptops get before I got this midnight finish, but I still love the laptop.
haha I gave up cleaning it... it drives me nuts but also for the videos I rather just show people the true dirtiness of it!
@@andresvidoza fair fair! Amazing video as always!
@MGD II what model of the m2 air did you get. I’d love one for school too but I’m not sure what model. Thanks
@@Olls1193 base M2 mac in the midnight. Great for school work, coding, etc, honestly only person preference problem is i like bigger screens, but it’s a very good laptop
@@mgdii5435 if I could upgrade the ram or the SSD what one would you recomend for school use and because id like this mac for 4-5 years
Wow, this is seriously the best and most honest review I’ve ever seen on TH-cam… big love!
Super happy with the way it turned out tbh! Thanks a lot!
Literally the design alone made me go for the M2. MagSafe and 2 ports is a great combo
Dude i love your cinematic skits in the beginning of your video! Well done :)
I got the M2 MBA 16/512 refurbished for 1200$ and I’m extremely happy with it, had a 14 MBP before but portability is a must for me.
The MBA is so slick, light and powerful for what I do. I do not edit photos or videos, I’m not a software engineer and I do not compose music. I just need a snappy, light and powerful laptop for my office work, Finance apps and light coding. Very pleased with it
Do you think it's powerful enough for lightroom and photoshop
@@heefq8121 it definitely is. But for LR I've seen that it can easily max out the 8GB of ram and once it's done that it can actually slow the whole process down as it can't feed the processor fast enough. On the flip side, if you can get the CPU fed fast enough, large exports will see the cpu throttle once it gets too hot (usually after 5-10 minutes).
I reckon for occasional LR use and exporting maybe a few tens to couple hundred images in one go, it's going to be fine.
#M2 - i have always been a windows user and decided to switch over to apple. I am a full stack developer and one day, i tried my friends macbook air m1 to see what the hype was about. Immediately fell in love with the sleekness and how it functions. Got the M2 right after work that day because of how sick it looked!
Much love thanks for watching! haha yes for full stack dev its absolutely amazing... as long as you dont start getting into mobile dev youre good.
Quality of Content is increasing in every video
I personally like how you explain every small detail about macs and other things 🔥
Keep going andres 👍🏻
Thank you so much brother! Happy to deliver!
Never regret and very happy with my macbook m2 :) Still super smooth and fast..
given that where i am, the 14 inch M1 Pro Macbook Pro was already the same price as I paid for my M2 Macbook Air… i should’ve got that, but only because the Air struggles in applications like After Effects, which ive just learnt i need to do on my desktop
for a portable, regular use machine? the M2 Air is still a beast and I love it.
#M2 At 12:25 when you're controlling the M2 Air with the M1 that is called Universal Control! What's really terrifying about it is you can move files directly from one device to the other one just by dragging it. As magical as that sounds it is even more magical when you actually do it and you can also do it with you iPad as well as long as you're signed in with the same Apple ID!! It's wild magical tech lol
Love your vids brotha.
I'm leaning to the Pro/Max series but it's amazing just how the M1/M2 Air opens up developers and creatives in general to power for under $1000, which would have cost several times as much a few years ago. Sure, it's not going to replace a 128 core RTX rig, but you can churn a lot of great stuff relatively seamlessly compared to an x86 in a similar price range.
I've been using the macbook air for 5 months, I'm a web developer and a university student of systems engineering. I went from having a dell gamer laptop to having this one. The change has been radical, super light, it navigates super smoothly through the interface. I have the base model and is faster than my old dell with intel i5 9th with ssd and 16gb of ram. I would buy it again.
How much is the ram and Ssd memory of your MacBook?
@@WillAlonzoF1 It's the base model (256GB of ssd and 8GB of RAM)
@@AlexRamirez-ds7di How about the performance when you consume the 8 gigabytes of ram? Is it too short?
@@WillAlonzoF1 The truth is yes, but I try not to demand too much with programs like docker. But the performance is not affected
@@AlexRamirez-ds7di I'm thinking of buying that same MacBook, do you think its lifespan is for many years? So as not to make an investment again
MacBook 14 inch is already so light and small, why do you even need Macbook M2 Air ? To save 2 milimeters of space and sacrifice performance ?
Brilliant video. Well done.
6 months in and it still looks fresh!
Man…I’ve grown to really like your channel. Keep up the good work. And yes, for me the reason I picked the m2 over the m1 was for $200 more, I got a slightly bigger and brighter screen. That’s it. Viewing comfort is important to me and that extra brightness really helps me out when I’m feeling a bit sluggish. Hopefully that makes sense to y’all. Thanks again for your awesome content. Cheers from la
Thank you so much Rafa! I appreciate it a lot. Im going to be doing a "How To Setup Your MacBook" video. I'll give a few tips and tricks and how I like doing things myself! Enjoy your macbook man!
I chose the M2 air over other options because of the color. I have no regrets.
Yeah youll never really regret it haha its an amazing laptop!
I've had a MBP in the past but I never really used it at its full capacity for the price I paid for it. So I decided on buying the M2 MacBook Air recently and I honestly do not regret it (so far) because it fits the basic needs that I will be using it for on a daily basis. It's lighter and sure, it is smaller than I am used it but I don't hate it.
The only thing I wish I considered more was buying one with 512GB of SSD memory but that would've be +$200 and I happened to have gotten a great deal with my brand new M2 MacBook that I just could not pass the basic model and pay $250 less than current price of $1199.
I dont think youll ever regret it at this point.. its an amazing machine. I feel you on the ssd part btw
2:05 Trial by Fire - a spine chilling show. Love your videos and awesome stuff as always ❤
I got 16 / 512 M2 Air. As a fullstack developer, and a multitasker, the machine is insane. Coming from windows, I had so much pain in the ass while setting an old version of LAMP for my company, but everything else is great. I used pro models too, and they are thick, dense and heavy AF, and for what, more gpu cores? No thanks. I feel like air and pro should have some CPU gap too but they don't really, and perform same on low power mode, which you should be on while on battery anyways. 15 inch Air will be a solid choice when it comes out. But 13.6 is very compact and capable.
Did you find that it ever lags when running heavy projects?
@@zenthedj542 Not at all.
I got the M1 air brand new for 750 euros and have absolutely no regrets. Great video with cinematics improving every day!!
how did you manage to get one at this price?
Where did you buy your MacBook for that price? Seems like a steal!
@@Zalive4444 a local store here in Greece was running some winter sales.
@@str1kez367 winter sales at a local store at my country. I guess they wanted to get rid of the stock cause I am pretty sure there was only one left cause when I ordered it it immediately went out of stock
@@minasmamos9651 OK thank :)
Just recommended your channel as i”m looking for a new M book. Husky like I have in the garage in your production area. SWEET! Instant cred and now it gives me proper permission to add one to my man cave remodel so I can organize all the crap that sits out and should be in an easily accessible tool box. Thanks for being cool!
been using my macbook air m2 for last 4 months minimum 8 hours a day for coding school. i have no complaints. its an amazing machine.
Is this the base model?
@@HeatherVirginia no i got mine with 16gb ram
and 512ssd.
i’m going into computer science for university, you think the air with 512 storage and 16gigs is good enough?
@@ravalence i use it for web development. i have it since september 2022 and i always use it 8 hours a day. never had a single issue. but i cant say for softwares development or video rendering or extremely intensive tasks. for me i run vs code, youtube, blog videos, multiple chrome tabs, terminal and shitload of stuff in background and works well.
I got mine for only $600 dollars which was the base spec, but it was brand new and I can't complain.
I really love my MacBook Air M1 and i don't really thinking to upgrade it.
Just bought the m2 air as my first ever Mac, I’ve always relied on my custom built windows/intel gaming pc for everything. I upgraded the 13 inch to 512 SSD (if I need more I’ll buy external) and 16g of ram, I really think that’s the sweet spot with this awesome machine! It’s cool learning about how OP the pros are I’m excited to join the apple computer community at last!
This is very helpful, thanks, and I like your office/studio
Your videos are always amazing to watch. Thank you for dropping this content. ❤🔥
I appreciate it brothaaaa
love your vids man
#M2 - I use the base M2 Air and it has been great for my use case. I do occasional light video editing and web browsing. Mostly everyday tasks. No issues at all.
Thanks for watching the whole video I appreciate it a lot! And thanks for sharing
@@andresvidoza 👍🏼
The last time I bought a Mac was a 15” MacBook Pro in 2016, and it blew my mind that for the price I bought my older comp I can max out an M2 MacBook Air and get over 4 times the ram and the space and it won’t be as heavy. Yes my old comp has all the old ports but I’ll take a dongle if it means I can get 2TB of space and more ram than I’ll need in it’s lifetime. I started doing video editing on my old Mac and decided to upgrade since the fans would kick in every time I tried editing and it would lag really bad. I’m hoping with the M2 I can increase the speed and quality of my new videos. But I’m excited! Especially since my old computer won’t update past Big Sur so now I’ll get to learn all the new software updates.
Hot take: No one does tech reviews *better* than this, it's not even close.
haha thank you so much ! means a lot
I bought M2 Air because of it's design. I love notch, flat edges, and midnight blue. Heavy workloads is not a thing to confuse, because I got my Core i9 PC that runs both Hackintosh and Windows.
Love the video quality and a lot details you have touched in this. Youe studio looks amazing. I really like that a lot. I've been following you since from almost the start and really happy to see that youe TH-cam channel is growing 👍
Crazyyyy! thanks a lot Alex! Much love !
I am a computer science student and I am using the base model MacBook Air m1, I had courses in C, Python, java and not even once the laptop showed weakness or slowing down. Its enough for a student for sure.
I come from pc and the base model m2 is perfect
I have a m2 MacBook Air and I have enjoyed it. I have the 8gb and 512 SSD and I have experienced the ram filling up with just some safari tabs but overall it’s been perfect for school.
Nice!! Thanks a lot for sharing! Enjoy it!
Is it filled with just a few safari eyelashes? So if you have two other applications open, it already starts to collapse and low performance?
@@WillAlonzoF1 the ram may fill up if I have heavy tabs opened but the performance is not hindered because of swap memory
@@mmanuel.of03u What do you think of the 8 gigas ram and 256 ssd version?
@@WillAlonzoF1 if you had the funds I will go for the 16gb ram version and stick with the 256 SSD. But if you’re gonna use the MacBook just for internet and little school work you’ll be just fine with the 8gb and 256ssd
i had the m1 air for 2.5 years and honestly that laptop was a beast. though my work has changed which require more ram i had to upgrade to the pro 32gb ram recently.
I`m a solution architect and owner of Air m1 8\256. Amazing computer. Bought it already used from my friend with a great discount.
Killer review Andres! Keep up the awesome reviews. Still on my M1 Air -- this thing is a beast. Although if I were to upgrade I'd probably be going for a refurb M1 Pro 14.
You can also control your iPad as well as other Macs with the same keyboard/mouse. You just have to be signed in to the same iCloud account.
I was a proud owner of the m2 MacBook Air midnight color with the 512g.. but then i started getting the safari warnings of not being able to open up webpages due to not enough memory which i had plenty of storage but ram i was hitting 7gig of ram. And i didn’t know what was going on. Im a student, although i do do a lot of multitasking with TH-cam in the background and multiple tabs open but they never exceeded 10. I did have other apps like Microsoft word, craft (my note taking app) and voice memos from my saved lectures running at the same time.. Best Buy guy told me this laptop wasn’t enough so got me to upgrade to the MacBook Pro M1 Pro. Which im liking the screen and speaker quality on it. But i do miss the MacBook Air portability. After seeing other people reviewing the MacBook Air i don’t think I’ve put that machine through what you guys put it through
Your videos never fail to impress me, Andreas. Such a great vibe!🔥🤙🏻
I am a developer and occasionally I edit some videos. I need 512 GB storage and 16 GB memory to work comfortably daily. the store discounts on M1 MacBook Pro 14" brought the price point down to to the level of M2 MacBook Air. I didn't give a second thought. I went with it. I think in 2023 a heavy discount on 14" M1 Pro is a much better deal over upgraded M1 MacBook Air.
I am in India. And, I bought it from Reliance Digital.
Thanks for sharing brother!!
I cannot wait to see this day in the life. Thanks to Shevon I now love watching day in the life videos.
#M2 the feature you discovered is Universal Control. You can use one mac to control another mac and iPads cursor to drag drop files, texts, type, etc neat productivity apple ecosystem feature. Great video btw!
Nailed that intro! 🔥🔥👊
it has been 5 months since i got my silver mba m2, and i love every second using it!
nice dude super happy to hear!!
The US pricing is just so different. For whatever reason, it's relatively easy to pay around 1500USD for the 16/512 option of the M2 air. While it's rare to see the 14 pro base model below 1999USD. It's new laptop time for me, and the battery/performance ratio has me interested in MacBooks.
I've recently gotten into some light video production with a friend. And even the M2 air seems like it's much more powerful than my 5 year old enterprise grade windows machine, which does the workflow just fine.
These videos confuse me as some, like, you say the M2 air simply cannot do any kind of video or photo editing. It will crash and fail, you *need* the pro. If that's the case, what is apple doing? I can do these tasks on a half decade old Thinkpad without discrete graphics...
Nice vid mate
Was that your actual ringtone? Can I get that, it was awesome
Ive done some music production in my M2 air and no issues so far.
the midnight M2 MacBook Air is really a joy to have! i love how light and portable it is. i'm also in college and a content creator and for where i'm at it literally gets the job DONE. i am currnetly going to get the Mac mini so i can have a desktop computer so i'm ready to test that out too
Yoo Mac Mini M2... Insane value for money imo! keep me posted
@@andresvidoza well do!!
@@andresvidoza UPDATE: I got the M2 Pro Mac mini 😩 it’s so nice 👍
Here’s my video
th-cam.com/video/cvVGdmrb6vE/w-d-xo.html
Is it too late to get the m2 macbook air? Should i just wait for the m3?
@3:06 “single core chips” wTf are you even talking about. You’re holding an 8 core chip. 🤦♂️
I have the m2 air and idc about the heavy stuff (coding, editing and such). All i want was the design and the battery lol
thanks! please do a video on the dev software installed and that you suggest for Mac
Hi I love the style of your videos, was just wondering what camera setup do you use to record them thanks!
I think Apple fans expected too much from a second generation; efficiency and power were always going to be amazing going from x86 to ARM. But from M1 to M2; it’s almost as if they were expecting at least 50%+ gains in every single category. And, in my opinion, this is the fault of our consumer age. Consume consume consume, without patience or thought. It’s kind of sad that technological advancements are stifled by people who have zero patience.
How are advancements stifled by over-expectation of consumers? This makes no sense. They're not directly connected factors, and even if they were, surely higher expectations would lead to better innovation.
Have been using my Macbook Air M2 since it came out... I have a 16,512 config and I would say its been crazy good experience coming from a Windows pc user... Love the intro btw... Keep doing this man
Any issues with throttling and heating? What disk did you go with ?
what do you use it for?
@@bryanduque2897 Just simple Dev work and 1080p videos.
@@bryanduque2897 mainly coding and a lil editing and entertainment
@@sunitjoshi3573 no such issues
Got m2 air and i would not change it for pro, prefer the size and compatibility, great review
How much is the ram and Ssd memory of your MacBook?
@@WillAlonzoF1 8/256
#M2 I got the base model M2 Air in midnight on launch day. I'm the pastor of a small church, so the church bought it for me to upgrade from the 2017 12 inch MacBook I'd been using for the previous 5 years (that laptop wasn't near as bad as some say!). I don't have a crazy workload as far as computing power goes. The most intensive things I do on it are Photoshop and audio editing. I think the base model has plenty of horsepower for the majority of people. My laptop is docked at my desk about 95% of the time, so wear and tear hasn't been much of an issue. I just wipe it off after taking it on the go the one or two times a week I have to. The fingerprints on the midnight color are no joke.
I would echo what many have said...if you're on any Intel based Mac, you will not regret the switch to an Apple silicon machine.
LOVE this. Thank you so much for sharing. I feel like these types of comments help a lot. Before I became I reviewer, I used to read comments quite often to see if the item I wanted to purchase was worth it to most people. Thanks again Chris!
2:05 you watching trial by fire 😍😍
Hey Andres !! Really Love Your Content. Explanations are Super Clear ❤ By The Way What is The Name Of The Theme You Are Using In VS Code ?
#M2 - It sounds like all of the downsides of your M2 Air could be solved by not getting the base model. I just ordered the M2 Air with 24GB RAM and a 2TB SSD for web development work.
Sure, the price was similar to some MacBook Pro models ($2,500), but I don't care about that, because I want the super thin design and lightweight body more than anything else, and buying a 14-inch MacBook Pro won't give me that.
Buying what works for you and what you actually want. Imagine that! 👍
@@chriscasillas Seems like an unpopular approach! lol
No hate on this video though, I appreciate all that these reviews cover.
@@LukePeters For sure no hate. I’m a tech review junkie. But in the end, always get what will do the job and what you want. The reviewers and commenters aren’t the ones who will be using your machine.
Thanks a lot for watching man!! Thats the whole point of this video to engage you guys into these types of conversations to see what works for some people and what doesnt for others. For example on my side, even for mobile dev as much as I can stuff up 24gb of ram, I rather just make sure I also have an HDMI port for convenience, the extra power of the M2 Pro for graphics and so on. I cant cover all opinions and use cases :/ But I try to just give my own ! I appreciate your comment!
@@andresvidoza Hey Andres, yeah for sure, I can totally appreciate that you're able to share your own opinions/use cases/needs best, and that you're also trying to provide the best advice you can for everyone else. I definitely appreciate the quality and thoroughness of your videos!
would you recommend me getting a Refurbished 13-inch MacBook Air Apple M2 Chip with 8‑Core CPU and 10‑Core GPU with 16GB and 1TB SSD for $1,549.00
@Andres Vidoza I am a CS major student and will like to ask for your opinion regarding the M2 Air vs M2 14" Pro model. I am torn between of getting a 16GB + 512GB M2 Air or a base model M2 14" Pro. Over here, the price difference (after spec-ing up the Air) is $400. I do coding and I have ran my Zephyrus G15 to 10GB+ of RAM before. Which will you recommend?
Best video of m2 air review ❤
2:04 trial by fire...big vouch
Thanks for the video, really found it helpful. I’m really leaning to the MBA M2 as I’m a front-end developer and also do some Electron and Figma. I do very very occasional photo editing in Affinity or Laminar Neo and movies in Final Cut. So think the M2 will be enough for me. I think though I might go with the 512GB SSD with 8GB RAM though as the base would just be too small for me
Hi, have you bought the MBA M2? If so, how was your experience as a front-end developer?
#M2- i love that you're a technical tech content creator and you actually know your way around computers quite well not just the theory ..you deserve the thumbs up bro!!
Thanks a lot man I appreciate it so much! haha it helps that I studied software and computer engineering
I use an M2 Air, 15 inch, for about some two weeks now. Compared to my old 2017 Air, which I bought with maxed-out specs including CPU upgrade, I like the fanless design and the bigger screen. Though the 15" Air is no longer a true Air in the sense of its portability. It is a thin and lightweight 15" laptop, sure, but just a liiittle too big and too heavy.
Bought the 16G/1T version because I want to use it as my main work computer, keeping the old Windows desktop for games. The Macbook performance is overall quite good but with too many applications open, it can become sluggish at times. When I remember to close Lightroom when I don't need it, it is much better. The M2 performance, especially the GPU with 10 instead of 7 or 8 cores compared to M1, is much welcomed. For home use, even editing a large batch of Raw photos while having two different Bloon TD games running in the background in order to do the daily quests, while listening to a podcast, all that without fan noise, is quite good. But quite expensive, too. I plan to add a screen later, for now my bank account has to recover from the expense :D
Ordered the M2 Macbook Air just got wait 5 more days for it to arrive
I have the M2 Macbook Air Maxed out with everything. It is great for everyday tasks and browsing etc but for intense tasks it does struggle. I am going to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro M2 MAX!
Thanks a lot for sharing mayn!!
What kind of intense task you mean ?
How do u run TH-cam in that phone format?
Uncle ! Can i use an external GPU with this laptop ??
been using my M2 MacBook for 3-4 months now, I love it. I only use it for school so I won't do more on it then chrome and many many word documents. But I love this machine so much! #M2
#M2 - great video thanks for the honest review! With the M2 Pros releasing on Tuesday, this might be a difficult decision for a lot of people.
With the M2 Air now regularly on sale, I don't think it will be that hard. The base model at around $1000 (a sale I've seen quite a bit lately) is a GREAT value.
Thanks a lot for watching! Yeah I figured :/!
Great video bro, do you have the 13” display on the air or larger?
I would buy this laptop just for the updated design
What app are you using to see memory usage in menu bar?
Just got my 2022 M2 Air with 16gb and 512 storage and its an amazing piece of hardware :)
Do you know if the newer M1 macbook airs are still shipping with 2 x 128gb NAND? I would think they've switched over to 1 x 256gb NAND for the newer M1 macbook airs as well. Basically once their stock of 128gb NANDs run out, they'll probably be outfitting all subsequent base models with 1 x 256gb NAND to improve their margins.
Yes they still are. I had opened my friends macbook air and it still had two nand chips inside... So from what I know, they still are shipping them like so. Good question btw... I hope it doesnt change haha
@@andresvidoza Oh man, really appreciate your reply! I've been asking this very question on SO MANY techtubers' channels for more than a few months, even those like MaxTech, nobody ever responds lol.
Yeah agreed, as long as it doesn't change, the M1 MBA is the best value in not just the Apple lineup but I'd say perhaps even the entire laptop industry. Cheers Andres :))
4:32 what is that app?
Clean My Mac!
of course the M2 is not as big as a leap like the M1 Air. But why is it viewed through the lens if an M1 user should upgrade? The M2 is there to attract buyers who don't have an Apple-silicon Macbook Air yet. If they would have continued to use M1, the performance comparison to Windows laptops would not be as favorable.
I've been stuck with the dilemma of the MacBook Air M1 vs the MacBook Air M2. I just use the MacBook for watching TH-cam, Netflix, browsing the web, working in Word documents for school, ... and every TH-camr was kinda going nuts over the 'slow SSD issue'. It drove me crazy and I was panicking regarding which model to choose. I went with the M2 and I felt bad because I was scared of this issue. Now two months later I'm so happy with my decision. The hardware changes like Magsafe and the bigger and brighter display are very nice. It's my first ever MacBook so the jump from my old, cheap (and slow...) windows pc is massive. From time to time I'm still worried about the SSD, but it seems like the 'drama' around it kinda faded away and your words did me well. The average user like me won't notice much and I probably won't notice anything ever for that fact... Thank you for calming me down. I also went with the 16GB RAM version, so this Mac is probably overkill for my usage and I'm not as worried anymore about the SSD. The most intensive work I do on a regular basis is opening multiple PDF documents and having like 10 to 20 safari tabs open at the same time and most of the time even only one tab open for TH-cam... It's an amazing laptop and even tho the M1 gives you more value for money, it's nice to have the new design that will stay modern for years to come. Again, thanks to lower my stress level... I'll definitely subscribe!
How’s the air m2 holding up? Also are/have you upgraded since then I know a new air m2 15inch just dropped not to long ago.
Video is amazing
Im gonna be getting a 16gb ram + 512 / 1024 GB ssd m2 air. Wowee
next year i will be majoring in computer science, do you think the macbook air m2 is enough for that?
yup as long as you dont get into mobile dev and other complex dev fields.. like for web development its absolutely gold. Anything web really
i love your video
I came to conclusion that whichever Mac you’ll choose, you’re going to overpay.
That control trick you found is “universal control” from macOS Ventura!
I don't use the magsafe. did not care much about the "better" screen. What I do notice is the really crappy speakers compared to my super old macbook pro, that really does piss me off. One thing is really good is how light it is, after lifting up any other pro macbooks.