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THE SIMS 4 FOR MAC REVIEW PRO

If you just need it for basic web browsing, emails and Word docs, then you’ll be more than happy with the M1, because that chip is still an absolute beast. How much you use it and what you use it for? So, with the redesign in mind, is it worth shelling out the extra $400 for the new M2 MacBook Air when the M1 is still available for $1,499?

M1 MacBook Air vs M2 MacBook Air: Fight So thin. I took mine on a trip to Sydney and used it to charge my iPhone and still didn’t need to charge the MacBook Air until I got home. That’s two hours less than the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and that’s fine.

THE SIMS 4 FOR MAC REVIEW PRO

Brings the design in line with the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro range which just looks nicer and better than the old design which hadn’t changed much since 2010.īasically, it’s just better.

Compatibility with high-impedance headphones.

Four speaker sound system instead of two (it’s still not great, because it’s a tiny, thin computer, but it is better).

100GB/s memory bandwidth (over 66.4GB/s on the M1 model).

The screen is a bit brighter (500nits vs 400).

There’s a MagSafe port again, thank Zeus, so now you can at least use both the paltry USB-C ports, even when you need to charge.

It no longer looks like it’s trying to prove how thin it is at any cost, and instead is a laptop you can hold and use comfortably at any angle.ĭon’t get me wrong, I bought the original MacBook Air and loved it, but its sharp edges were there for looks rather than function. The new MacBook Air body looks much sleeker, nicer and more contemporary, with the same rounded edges as the 16-inch MacBook Pro range in a smaller package. It was thin, wedge-shaped and sorta looked like you could use it to cut a soft cheese if you were in a bind at a party. It’s those MacBook Air owners that Apple is trying to entice with these M2 models, not M1 owners, given it’s such a modest performance improvement over the last generation (generally only around 1.5 times faster). Those numbers are darn good, and Apple’s internal testing shows that the M2 MacBook Air is 5-to-24 times faster than the old Intel MacBook Airs.

Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro OpenCL score M2 MacBook Pro: 26820.

Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro multi-core score M2 MacBook Pro: 8820.

Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro single-core score M2 MacBook Pro: 1936.

In terms of benchmarking, it’s almost exactly the same as the M2 MacBook Pro 13-inch, which makes sense, since it is exactly the same and the Geekbench benchmarking doesn’t do a long-term stress test, which is where the differences would be.

That’s not the top spec or the top price, but unless I tried to kick out a big Final Cut project or play The Sims for more than a couple of hours, I really didn’t feel like I was being constrained at all. The M2 MacBook Air model I reviewed had an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GBs of Unified Memory and a 1TB SSD, which puts the price up to $2,949. That means it has the same power up front, but can’t quite sustain it for long periods of time. The M2 MacBook Air has all the internals of the M2 MacBook Pro (from $1,999), but with a bit less room for cooling. Most small and light computers are small and light first, and computers second. Sure, it doesn’t have the sustained power of the M2 MacBook Pro, but it does have a redesigned body that makes it better to hold and includes MagSafe, my beloved.īut, with all that said, is it worth somewhere between $1,900-$3,850, depending on the configuration you choose when there are cheaper options available? M2 MacBook Air power A computer this size almost shouldn’t be able to be this powerful, it goes against everything you expect, and is utterly delightful. Now, however, this new M2 MacBook Air (from $1,899) is ridiculously powerful. A touch underpowered for the price, perhaps, but small, light and had enough grunt to allow you to get your work done while being ultra-portable the Mac you got when you didn’t need to do anything complicated. The humble MacBook Air used to be a kind of Chromebook competitor on steroids.