2020 Macbook Air Retina 1.2GHz quad-core 10th-gen i7 w/ 16GB Ram & 1TB SSD -- worth buying in late 2022?

[2126000]

Looking at buying the above model "used". Is it worth buying? I'd be using it primarily for DJ'ng (SeratoDJ Pro), audio production (Ableton), with some photo & video editing (Adobe Photoshop / Premier / iMovie. Price is $1000AUD ($690USD) & still under AppleCare. Oh battery cycle county @ 5345, condition: 'normal' & full charge capacity 3462mAh.

Main reason I want this machine is for the internal 1TB SSD to house my music collection for DJ purposes -- do not want an external SSD for live situations.

Any advice appreciated. Read something about throttling the CPU of this model? is it bad? I assumed 16GB Ram & "1.2GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz" would be fast?

Or should I just get a 512GB M1? (Just sold my M1 which was fine.. but the 256GB SSD was not sufficient for my needs. 1TB would be perfect but could make 512 work. A new 512GB M2 or 1TB MBP not an option.. haven't really got a budget for that.

TIA

 

[wowee]

Looking at buying the above model "used". Is it worth buying? I'd be using it primarily for DJ'ng (SeratoDJ Pro), audio production (Ableton), with some photo & video editing (Adobe Photoshop / Premier / iMovie. Price is $1000AUD ($690USD) & still under AppleCare. Oh battery cycle county @ 5345, condition: 'normal' & full charge capacity 3462mAh.

Main reason I want this machine is for the internal 1TB SSD to house my music collection for DJ purposes -- do not want an external SSD for live situations.

Any advice appreciated. Read something about throttling the CPU of this model? is it bad? I assumed 16GB Ram & "1.2GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz" would be fast?

Or should I just get a 512GB M1? (Just sold my M1 which was fine.. but the 256GB SSD was not sufficient for my needs. 1TB would be perfect but could make 512 work. A new 512GB M2 or 1TB MBP not an option.. haven't really got a budget for that.

TIA

I'd say it's better to switch to apple silicon at this point as I think it will be more beneficial going forward.

 

[Basic75]

If the battery cycle count is really over 5000 after 3 years this machine must have been severely tortured.