The two others go more into depth about RAM for music production and some video editing, and also about the SSD-lifespan controversy that plagued the M1s.

The one, long review is split up into useful chapters and shows some more memory-intensive workflows and how they perform on the 8 GB Air. He is an audio-engineer but talks about how his wife's relatively stripped down 8 GB M1 Air competes with a beefed up M1 Pro (not the M1 Pro Pro, with the notch): Regardless, I would check out Mark Payne's videos about the M1's before you decide. I don't know anything about computer science, though. I have the base M2 and have been doing some of the same stuff you've been doing and it's worked fine. Based on what you're listing here, it doesn't seem necessary. I got a 1TB SSD from Samsung for around 100 usd and it's not given me any issues!Īlso, the 16 GB are nice-to-haves I think.

Again, unless you move big files for work, it won't affect you too much with normal use. Ignore all the people who keep talking about the slow single-unit 256 GB SSD chip inside the Air. I went this route and it has been working well for me. Hey, it seems like your workload isn't very intensive on moving big files from one place to another, so I would recommend dropping the 512GB of internal storage and rather getting an external SSD with more space :) If you have this workload, how long will the Macbook Air M2 last? I like watching anime, reading manga, Youtube, on my free time. I'm in my first year of school (Computer Science) and all my classes are virtual, so I take my classes (videos, modules) online. Most of my tasks are administrative tasks like social media, content creation (Canva and video editing-but not pro levels, just for social media use), occasional Zoom and Skype calls, website design (no coding, more like building a landing page), preparing documents (Adobe Acrobat), Slack, Trello, Dropbox. I work from home but intend on travelling while working. I work approximately 13 - 15 hours per day. I saved long and hard for this, so I'm hoping people here would be so kind as to provide insights about its battery life, as this one of my main reasons why I wanted a Macbook.įor context, I will be using this for personal, school, and work use. I have saved enough money to buy a Macbook Air M2 with a 16GB ram and 512GB storage configuration. I would like to apologize in advance if my English and grammar is bad, I'm from the Philippines and English is not my first language.

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