now that we know the full specs and prices for the new redesign m2 macbook
air here are five mistakes that you absolutely have to avoid when buying one
of these macbooks and my full buyer's guide covering exactly which upgrades
and what configurations are best depending on what you're going to be
doing so let's go ahead and jump right in now the first one is make sure that
you actually need an m2 macbook air now
what i mean by this is that the m1 macbook air you can buy right now
is an amazing machine not only did it beat out a lot of way more expensive
intel machines and it has a crazy amount of power but you can buy one for way
less than the m2 version instead of 1200 you can pick one up as low as 850 brand
new on amazon or less than 800 bucks for a refurbished one with a guarantee i've
used one for everything even photo and video editing with 4k files and 50
megapixel raw images and it is great it's great for travel the battery life
is fantastic and it works great for most people so you can pick one up for way
less right now and save a ton of cash now if you're set on buying this
redesigned model and you know that you're willing to spend
1200 bucks instead of 800 you have to know that you are not getting that full
performance that apple talked about on stage you will need to spend 100 more to
get that new 10 core processor with that performance boost that they showed off
apple gave a few figures on stage including 25 better graphics performance
at the same wattage but that is considering the 10 core model running
more efficiently to get the 35 improvement that is using the 10 cores
at more power this means that the 8 core base model that you get for 1200
might not be much faster than the acor m1 chip since we know that they are both
using the same 5 nanometer architecture now if you want to see a full deep dive
into the m2 chip vadim is currently working on that video so make sure to
subscribe down below which will also help to us to reach our goal of 1
million subscribers we are so close and we greatly appreciate it so if you've
been holding off to get a much more powerful m2 chip in the redesigned
macbook air you will need to fork over that extra cash and it's now a 1300
macbook now third is thinking that you will get the full performance of that
chip on stage now we know that the m1 macbook air thermal throttled even with
the seven core graphics but the m2 redesigned version is much thinner
having 20 percent less volume even though it actually has a slightly larger
footprint this reduction in volume is because of the thinness and of course
the m2 macbook air is still fanless so if the thicker 7 core m1 macbook air
lost performance because of throttling i would expect the new thinner 10 core
model that puts out more heat to throttle more now apple themselves show
off on their website that the m2 version of the macbook pro actually has a bigger
gain than the m2 version of the macbook air and they show small burst tests not
longer loads so there's a chance that the 10 core will be barely faster than
the a core with extended tasks or even similar in performance and that the m2
macbook pro could be much faster this time because of its fan unless apple did
some magic with a large heat spreader of course we will only know once we get
them and take the laptops apart like we did with the m1 models as well as doing
extensive thermal testing and comparing the macbook air to the macbook pro and
also the 8 core version compared to the 10 core version and real world tasks so
make sure you guys enable those notifications down below if you guys
want to see those videos because we are going to be ordering three of them the
next one is getting the base 30 watt adapter apple showed off a brand new 35
watt compact usb charger that has dual ports but what they didn't say is that
the 1200 macbook air still comes with the same old 30 watt usb-c charger this
charger took nearly three hours to charge the m1 macbook air and the m2
model has a larger battery this new one has five more watts of power to make up
for that but what's nicer is that it not only supports two devices and it's gonna
adjust power for the fastest charging but is actually smaller and lighter than
the slower 30 watt old model apple really should have included this and
ditched the old one but unless you are getting the fifteen hundred dollar spec
you have to pay another twenty dollars to get this compact dual charger or for
the same price you can get the single port fast charger that has 67 watts this
will get you to 50 in 30 minutes instead and charge pretty much twice as fast but
it is less convenient because it's larger now the one reason some people
might still want to get the base model is because that's the one that is most
kept in stock so you can also just buy both adapters separately but they will
cost you almost 60 bucks so if you want to get your new macbook air as fast as
possible you can actually just buy a well-rated over 100 watt fast charger
with a cable for just over 30 bucks on amazon or if you want a fast charger
that is actually smaller than apple's compact one inker has their gan 2 for 50
bucks i'll link both down in the description below number five is storage
do not think that you need to spend a huge amount of money and pay apple's
prices for storage upgrades now i know people are still disappointed it comes
with 256 gigs of storage that's not enough for most but you have to spend
200 bucks to get 512 and up to 800 for the 2 terabyte version now one thing you
have to know is these are not the ultra fast ssds that come with the 14 and 16
inch macbook pros that go up to 7 400 megabytes a second these are the ones
that are pretty much half the speed so instead of spending 800 bucks for a two
terabyte version you can actually spend 360 dollars for a
sabrin's external hard drive that works with thunderbolt or regular usb type-c
and you will get an additional two terabytes whereas with apple you
actually don't gain two terabytes of storage because the default already
comes with 256. so you have flexibility with using this with many computers we
love these we have two of them they are close to the speed of apple's ssds and
when you upgrade your system later you could still have it i'll go ahead and
link that down below we highly recommend those and i actually have a sixth one
for you and that is ram now most people know that the ram is built in unless
you're coming from a long time ago or maybe a windows laptop you only get what
you buy so if you just get the 8 gig version that's it you're stuck with it
now with that the other mistake is thinking that you need a huge amount of
ram these do come with 24 gig options now so for 400 bucks you could upgrade
to that so some people will actually not need to get any more ram they could
stick with the 8 gig model for example we have two videos comparing 8 gig
versus 16 gig with the m1 the first video of a d made where you're just
using a normal amount of tabs and you just have one pro application open that
you're doing for productivity and in there we see barely any difference in
performance the one time we saw a big difference is for photo editing where
instead of taking three minutes with a gig version it took two minutes and 43
seconds not really a big deal but if you're somebody that likes to have 25
web browsing tabs open multiple applications i have a super stress test
where we did 8 gig versus 16 and there once the ram was maxed out instead of
taking 5 minutes for the 8 gig it took 2 minutes and 34 seconds now with that if
you're somebody that pushes your machine for example ak video editing you want to
go extreme on a macbook air for some reason now here we also see instead of
taking about 14 minutes it took about six so that is a pretty good improvement
going up to 16 gigs so you really have to be aware of what you're gonna be
doing with this system and how long you're going to have it now some people
say buy the most you can buy because you'll need more ram in the future
well with this unified memory actually 16 gigs performs more like 24 or 32 in
the past it's a lot more efficient there's less duplication mac os is
actually more efficient so it's not exactly true and apps have been
optimized as well and that brings me into our buyer's guide portion if you
know that you want to buy the m2 macbook air i would say that most people should
just buy the base model now let's go ahead and go into that and we can base
our upgrades off of this one because you don't have to go for the higher tier now
i will say that everybody should spend the extra 20 bucks and either get the
dual charger that's 35 watts small or if you want the faster charging go with the
larger brick that's well worth the money unless you have to wait wait longer for
those options to ship in that case check out the third party options that i
talked about now as far as the chip right here we'll start with that
the only people that should upgrade to the 10 core graphics ship are people
that are really going to push the graphics for example if you know that
you're going to do a ton of video editing if you know that you're going to
be trying to play games you want to max out your graphics
those are the tasks that are going to help for example 3d rendering that focus
on graphics you will see some improvement now if you're somebody that
falls in this camp i would say wait until we get our macbook airs we compare
the 8 core graphics to the 10 with throttling and how much of a difference
that makes to see if it's worth it um i think for most people the 8 core option
is going to be really good just like we previously told people to buy the 7 core
version instead of the 8 core now as far as the ram if you're just a student
you're doing simple web tasks email youtube maybe some simple photo simple
4k video editing with short projects a gigabyte will still do a good job
believe it or not i have the base macbook air and i've done a ton of work
on it now if you're somebody who does a lot of photo editing that is where the
16 gig model will definitely help you will give you some improvements or if
you work on longer video projects and i'm talking about 20 to 30 minute long
4k projects with multicam you will see an improvement there as well
now for people that do coding if you use logic you'll see an improvement but not
very much now if you're somebody that does uh
instrumentals you do music production with lots of plugins that is where the
16 gig can also help now as far as the 24 gig model almost nobody should be
getting this unless you know that you want the
smallest and lightest macbook but you also are going to use a ton of ram maybe
that's an option but in reality if you're going to be pushing your machine
to this limit the macbook air isn't the one that you want to get now as far as
storage the base one isn't enough for most unless you use the cloud a lot like
i do in external drives in that case buy sabrent and then get the base model just
for storing applications the 512 isn't too bad for 200 bucks after that you're
really spending a ton of money just getting a little bit of extra storage
and i say it would not be worth it i think external storage is the way to go
and it's just really a luxury spending these kind of prices to not have to plug
in an external drive and of course remember the macbook air now can be
charged with magsafe and so you actually have two ports available compared to
before you would you need to use one for charging so there you guys go if you
have any other questions depending on what you do just go ahead and ask me
down in the comment section below and i'll do my best to answer your specific
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