MacBook Air M3 After Two Weeks – Almost the Better Choice

This is the NEW Base Model MacBook Air M3 13" in Space Gray. In this video I share my thoughts on whether it's worth the upgrade over the M2 and M1 airs.

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[Angel-wrgg]

Upgraded from a MacBook Pro from 2017 and I can’t believe how much cooler it stays and it so much faster… also got the 15in & love it so much

[westerner]

This is a great review, thank you. You pack a lot in mainly because you talk non stop but don't waste a word. I have the M3 base model in space grey and it is so quiet, so powerful, so fast I don't need any extra RAM or storage and for most people its the best laptop you can buy for the price. I was a windows guy until this, the battery life, keyboard and trackpad are better than I ever had on Dell XPS. Its one of the all time great laptops.

[saisathya]

I am a Graphic Designer and a Photographer from India who works on multiple layers in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom Classic, Figma and Canva, also I am planning to start learning video editing using Adobe's Premier Pro or Davinci Resolve and motion graphics using Adobe After Effects.

Currently, I am using an AUS ROG Zephyrus G14 from 2020 with 16 gigs of memory and 1 TB of storage (this is the base model btw which has a Ryzen 5 4600 HS CPU and a Nvidia GTX 1650 ti GPU).

I usually have multiple apps running and this is how it might look on average:

1. Photoshop
2. Illustrator
3. Figma (along with Photoshop on rare scenarios)
4. Lightroom Classic (sometimes along with Photoshop)
3. A browser (2 different ones like Brave and Firefox sometimes),
4. Apple Music,
5. Windows file explorer (4 to 5 tabs),
6. A communication app (like Slack or Teams) and
7. Notion.

So now can you tell me whether a person like me can get away with a decently specced Macbook Air (like a 15-inch model with 24 gigs of memory and 1 TB of storage) instead of a much more powerful Macbook Pro?

[jdxh]

I've never owned a mac, always been more of a android/Windows guy. That was until I saw the sleek, sexy midnight M3 air the other week. I had no idea it had literally just released but I loved it so much that I picked one up.

Went with the 16gb ram, 13inch one as that's all I needed, and boy, it fuckin SLAPS. I haven't upgraded my laptop in a few years but holy shit does this lil mf make my old one look like my 2015 highscool laptop..

I mainly use it to run slicers for my resin/3d printer, as well as CAD and blender for model making. With the occasional video editing. I probably went overboard with the M3 but I absolutely love it so far.

[Kisherr]

This video came out at a great time. I’ve been deliberating between this and a pro for my workflow

[ckubes]

Hey Cole....I am a new viewer....love your content....especially the edc and desk setups....😊

[tomnoreilde]

I have the 16GB version and you can throw anything at it. I'm using it on my odyssey G9 NEO display. Insane powerfull 4K video editing with no throttle.

[nicktw]

The AIR doesn’t use PWM for screen dimming —- -very important feature for people sensitive to it. 😊

[tonkatruckfit]

I am getting back into digital media from my college years almost ten years ago. I am upgrading from a 2013 Mac Book Pro 15 inch Base Model.

I am definitely a “storage/ram”
Person. I learned when I was a college kid, this was a downfall to my first MacBook.

Do you or anyone here recommend I get a 13 inch M3 or M2 with 16GB of Ram and 1TB “Air” or a M3 16GB of Ram and 1TB “Pro”?

Guess I am just concerned about the thermal pad technology on a speced up Air.

[nancyadams]

Does the M3 Air overheat with no fan?… sorry, you answered that! Thanks!

[Technotiic]

Nice review bro, BTW what is your 14 pro battery health % on. I'm at 94% max capacity after 14 months if use at least 40 hours a week for coding etc on m2 pro 16"

[AlejandroOlmedo-rl]

hey mr.cole, please turn on "auto hide and show dock" . Not fully using the entire screen when video editing / multi apps is itching my brain. 🧠

[JM-krbi]

There are significant resolution/scaling limitations with the Air vs Pro. I assume it’s related to M3 vs M3 Pro/Max but it makes it unusable for me connected to an external display

[erikosterhagen]

You talk about all the specs which the Apple official infos. But there’re some problems that M series MacBook which you need to review the most, it’s the touchpad and screenshot.

Of course you said that there’s no problem with the touchpad and screenshot. But many people experienced MacBook Air m1 with bad experience of touchpad after buying the new macbook several months afterwards. The touchpad not smooth, even MacBook Pro 2012 touchpad was so very smooth and good, but this air M1 was so bad and mot smooth.

And also after screenshot usually we put the shot directly insert it into Words or Apple Pages. After put it the screenshots for several times, it will loading so ever lasting! Never experienced it from MacBook Pro 2012, even using other things at the same time was never damage from the screenshot like M series MacBook.

So, I don’t know whether your review on M3 junk did the same other like m2 or m3? Without any research or experience it? Better not misinforming.

[nwin_tran]

I upgraded from M2 base Macbook Air to M3 16GB Macbook Air and it worth the money everything is quicker and faster

[EHokie]

Why does every tech product video have to be som version of “don’t make a mistake, ” “don’t waste your money, ” or “I was wrong?”

It’s so played out. Surely there are better ways to activate the algorithm than to be this clickbaity.

[joshuachantengco]

“I wish there was a color that was closer to space black”
Me
“Bruh why don’t you just get the midnight color”

[ramimvlogs]

I think you are showing wrong data for m1 geekbench score.

[Maggashi]

You can just use a displaylink dock and then you can have as many displays as you want lol

[AlanSoonSplice]

What's the smart clock you have on the table?