Undecided MacBook Pro 14 (base) or Air M2

[LiE_]

Ooh how did you get that discount or do you know someone?

Can always grab refurbished for £1619

Refurbished 14-inch MacBook Pro Apple M1 Pro Chip with 8‑Core CPU and 14‑Core GPU - Space Grey

M1 Pro takes the exceptional performance of the M1 architecture to a whole new level for pro users. Even the most ambitious projects are easily handled with up to 10 CPU cores, up to 16 GPU cores, a 16‑core Neural Engine, and dedicated encode and decode media engines that support H.264, HEVC and...

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[ledzep1]

Ooh how did you get that discount or do you know someone?

Hi
It was a staff discount for a weekend only, I get a certain amount all the time but this particular weekend I got extra.

 

[Hammie]

I have a Space Gray 14" MBP 10/16/16GB/1TB. I think there was only one time it ever broke a sweat and that was when I stupidly imported 30,000 pictures (RAW and JPG) at once. It took a total of 4 days to import and sync to iCloud Photos. I did this because I was playing around with the editing features of Apple Photos and it did everything I needed it to. I will be getting rid of Lightroom despite being a user since its original beta program (I started with Beta 4 in 2006).

I am seriously thinking about getting the Silver M2 MBA 8/10/24GB/1TB and selling my MBP. I don't really need the ports as I already have a dongle that I use with my 12.9" M2 iPad Pro. I am hoping that I won't notice a significant performance hit going from the 10/16 chip to the 8/10 chip. I really don't think so since I only use O365, mail, messages, Safari, and VMWare Horizon to VPN into work. The only reason that I am going with 24GB is that my current 16GB MBP is usually at 12GB memory and 400M-2GB swap during the day.