15' M2 MacBook Air — My Biggest Mistake... (1 week later review)

I have been using the new MacBook Air on the M2 processor for a whole week, and now the time has come to share my fresh impressions with you. In fact, there are a huge number of interesting moments in this laptop, and I will tell you about them today! After this video, you will be able to make a decision about buying a new laptop from Apple! Therefore, watch this video from beginning to end to find out everything about the new MacBook Air on the M2 chip, what is interesting and new in it, and whether it is worth buying it instead of the old laptop model!

[andresferrer]

Bottomline: upgrade to 16 gigs of ram.

I saved you from watching the whole rant

[Sybilla]

First, having watched so many of these review videos, I don't understand ever comparing an Air to a Pro but I guess it has to be done for people who don't get the obvious differences. Seriously apples and oranges. But from having to lift the weight of the pro for years (yes it's an old chunky Pro, but aren't most of them?) and not needing it for any heavy work, it's bye-bye Pro. I love my Air 15, also have the 13 for comparison. And I'm glad it doesn't have the dust collecting speaker grills, doesn't look weird to me at all, looks nice and minimalist (btw IMHO sound is great). It's amazingly light, that I love. Granted I'm not a content creator, I just use it for simple tasks. But I really don't understand the negative reviews because the Air doesn't do what the Pro does. I actually watched your video twice to try to understand your title of..."My Biggest Mistake". yehh...it's not a Pro. I think the average person will love it.

[Colorado-Coyote]

This laptop has been my first ever laptop and I absolutely love it. This is also coming from somebody who used to dispise apple.

[mikedimond]

Thw headphone jack on the right is the only reason I like this computer. Less io clutter and evened out more

[zerokool-]

The MBA 15 was NOT supposed to fix any mistakes of the 13 inch.

Simply it was for people who wanted a bigger laptop but didn’t need the Pro version.

Also why is the headphone Jack better in the left side?

The one thing maybe they apple could have added, was 1 more usbc or dual monitor support. Other than that nothing else.

[jamesli]

as for glossy or gross keys definitely buy a keyboard cover, right? When I sold my 7 year old Macbook pro its keys were immaculate due to that cover

[PeresD]

I have no problem with speaker placement. It’s a fantastic machine, absolutely beautiful.

[crazyartist-ew]

I would have to disagree with the downsides you mentioned about out growing it, im a freelance artist, and I work in files over 8k and with hundreds of layers, and I have the base model 13 inch M2 Macbook air, 8GB of ram, and while I was concerned about that, the swap memory works amazing, and makes up for it, I did get the 256gb model, which I would have preferred the 512GB but my main pc had failed, and I needed something fast, on a tight budget, and eventually just got a external ssd, but the mac is flying through all my tasks, even editing in 4k, I record, and edit in 4k for timelapse videos, its perfect, maybe if I was editing 8k with LUTS I would have issues, but the mac outperforms my main desktop pc now for workflow things, My pc is a gaming pc so not directly targeting workflow, but its still pretty hefty, with a ryzen 5 5800X 3D and a 2080ti. and 32GB of ram

[dabaydestrian]

All of the negative things he says won’t apply to 90% of users

[deanwilliams]

In the UK this Air is £1799 for 16 GB and 512 GB SSD. The refurbished 14in M2 Pro is £1829. As the three-year owner of a refurbished M1 Air, this really is an easy choice. Go Pro or wait for the new Air to hit the refurb store.

[Denkic]

You have no idea, the computer has no competition on the market. the basic model will be more than satisfactory for 97 percent of people, and the rest who need it for professional computer very demanding work will buy an upgraded model or a pro model. The computer is incredibly good. To make it easier for you to understand why I wrote this, buy a computer of the same price from another brand or a more expensive one, and you will see what I'm talking about. Other brands are far behind and do not match the quality and performance

[frazerweb]

If I had to choose between macbook air 15 inch, and 14 macbook pro, I'd choose 14 inch laptop for superior quality. I did try out the macbook air 15 and found it surprisingly good. If apple added more ram and larger hard drive on the base model, and improved speaker quality it would become a run away success. If phones can have 12gb ram then why can't this computer have 16gb, what'd the real expense of on chip ram?

I'm sure the M3 incarnation will be far more amazing.

[Phuamt]

Very practical video. Thks. Any idea when m3 imac 24 and macbok air 13 and 15 inch releasing? Thanl You.

[manishj]

I will happily wait for M3, 16GB RAM, 512GB faster SSD in the base model. In 2023 for $1300, we should be getting these.

[Johnnyhaag]

its 2 additional woofers, not tweeters

[mradhurley]

"When you think a 15" laptop, the image that pops into your head is a bulky, plasticy laptop that weighs like a small planet, has literal propellers as fans and all those terrible things".... Arthur...are you writing the script from 2010? The XPS 15 has been for years now and he set the rather high bar the 15" laptops with it's slimline design. Get with the times.

[macjim]

I’m puzzled why someone would buy the base model of the 15” Air for photo editing, it doesn’t have enough storage space, the top line version would be a more sensible choice.

[podrouzk]

I love those empty spaces on the sides. There are no holes for speakers so you won't get dust in there and it stays nice and clean all the time. If Pros have it I'd buy the 16" Pro.

[ThisisMastermind]

I get the impression that you use the mac only for editing videos and mail, I have not yet found a video of them using the mac for something else

[mattstechshow]

I feel like these videos over emphasise the downsides of this laptop/chip, it’s fast and sure if you get at base model, maybe if you also own a more powerful PC then you’ll notice some throttling but for most tasks you just won’t.

The laptop is excellent and only “slow” for specific use cases. I used a core i5 2017 MacBook Pro for 3 years at uni and it did everything fine, it overheated but it was fine for all that time, snappy etc. this laptop would be even in its base config a massive leap over that and it’s not gonna be horrendously slow or laggy at almost anything.

To say this is a bad laptop for anything other than specific use cases or actual pro users is ridiculous and to be frank I’d have killed to have had something this good for Uni.