M1 Air or Pro

[Eddavis75]

Struggling to understand why you would pay £300 more for a pro over an Air (base models) for the same processor?

 

[thenewperson]

Better sustained performance could be one thing. But then I've never seen the point of that MBP config so I'm kinda there with you.

 

[oakrrl]

Pro vs Air also not clear to me. The GPU on the base Air has 7 cores vs 8 on the Pro. But if you get Air with 512 GB SSD, you get the 8-core GPU. Both Pro and Air have <only!> two Thunderbolt ports....Pro has a fan and a Touch Bar. Maybe we'll have to wait and see benchmarks but right now Pro is not very compelling....

 

[Eddavis75]

I thought that was a typo on the 7 core GPU base model ? when I looked at the 512gb and saw it had 8 core GPU. Interesting how the home page only talks about 8 core GPU within the M1 chip

 

[rorschach]

I can't go back to a non-Touch Bar model, so that makes it easy for me. (I hate using the Magic Keyboard with my iMac without the Touch Bar).

 

[jav6454]

Struggling to understand why you would pay £300 more for a pro over an Air (base models) for the same processor?

You get 1 more GPU core and also a fan for sustained performance due to thermals. It's up to you to decide if that makes a difference based on your needs and your expected usage.