![]() ![]() The MacBook Air M2 gets the long-awaited boost to a 1080p webcam along with a quad-speaker sound system that should rival that of the MacBook Pro 14 and 16. The MacBook Pro M2 is similarly left in the dust when it comes to its webcam and speakers. On the MacBook Pro M2, you are down to just one USB 4 port anytime you need to charge your laptop. However you feel about MagSafe, that means you can charge while still having two USB 4 ports free to plug in a monitor and a USB drive - or whatever else you might need. ![]() This beloved charging port lets you charge quickly and safely as it will immediately detach without destroying the cord or your laptop if anyone or anything accidentally trips over it. Of course I’m talking about the return of MagSafe to the Air M2. Neither of the M2 MacBooks get the plentiful panoply of ports that the MacBook Pro 14 and 16 offer, but the fact that you get one fewer port on the MacBook Pro M2 just feels wrong on every level. We’ll be able to settle this argument quickly once our labs get our hands on these laptops, but if you are considering the MacBook Pro because you do photo or video editing work, for example, any potential benefits you will see from going with the MacBook Pro are almost certainly outweighed by the associated costs, which I’ll address now. If anything, that may be even more true this time around, as Apple no longer has to contend with the thermal challenge of the old Air’s wedge design. The reality is that Apple’s done its job so well with the M1, and presumably the M2, that the thermal hit isn’t enough to cause the Air to throttle that often, so for the vast majority of users, the difference is going to be imperceptible. In our testing, the M1 Air actually outperformed the MacBook Pro in one-off testing (5,962 to 5,882 on Geekbench 5.2), where you would expect an advantage is more sustained demanding tasks. Just like the last generation, the MacBook Pro gets fans and a slightly larger chassis to enhance its thermal performance over the same M2 chipset in the Air. The real question is what advantages are you getting over the MacBook Air M2 in terms of performance and the answer is: not much. ![]()
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