The Air is just a really good consumer ultrabook. There’s some crossover because the cheaper models of the Pro are comparable in price to the more expensive models of the Air but for me, I know I see no reason to pick up a Pro. I don’t need the performance, and I like the fact that the Air has no fan. Granted modern Macbook fans don’t get frustratingly loud but I love having a whisper quiet machine.

Thanks I’ll definitely look into checking out the air

I just moved from Pro 14 M1 to Air 13 M2 purely as I travel a lot with work the lighter weight helps when i am carrying my backpack and cases through international airports.

It does what I need for me. Log into work system. General web browsing and streaming.

You’ll be fine with the M2. It handles all you can throw at it. I run 3 virtual machines, Office, Safari with 30-40 tabs, Lightroom and it just purrs like a kitten. I’ve never had it get hot on me. I have a M2/16Gb/1Tb. It’s a beast.

Get the 14-inch MacBook Pro, it has a way better display and way better battery life and performance.

In the situation that you don’t need a pro powered machine you should get an air, all you need and more for less money 😎

The M2 Air with 16GB of RAM can do most things where MacOS isn’t blocked. Any social science, history, math, medical studies, journalism, philosophy, English literature are fine to use a Macbook.

College engineering programs that use software that doesn’t work on MacOS, Power BI, Azure cloud, c# programming, or heavy-duty GPU tasks are the only limitations.

If I was buying today to upgrade my m1 air. I would look at a pro model just for the updated screens

if u need to use it strenuously for longer than 30m… pro. u need the fans to prevent thermal throttling

MBA wins on weight and price. Also, if you’re referring to MBA M2, the screen is more eyes-friendly than MBP (for some people with sensitive eyes). If I were you, I would get MBA either 13” or 15”. Use the remaining money to upgrade storage or RAM (look like you need more storage than RAM).