MacBook Air M2

Would be great to now have a comparison with Apple Intelligence turned off. It bothers me that M2 Air is now the least-lasting computer on Tahoe.

This week I decided to be hip and went to Tahoe on an M2 Air despite the complaints. I didn't mind the overall look and feel of Tahoe and I actually preferred the new compact Launchpad, but what got me was the noticeably bad battery life, occasional stutters in animations and buggy drag and drop, wi

A new base model Macbook Air or a used Macbook Pro. For the average user upgrading an Air's RAM or storage is rarely worth it and often pushes the price into MacBook Pro territory, which has active cooling, better displays, and more ports. People paradoxically spend more upgrading the ram and storag

I'm so glad I found this post, I was just about to update my 2022 MacBook Air (M2) from Sequoia to Tahoe but now I don't think its worth it. My battery is already bad on Sequoia, so if it gets worse with Tahoe then no thank you. And I've also had Apple Intelligence and Siri turned off since I upgrad

Nope, that’s bad advice. That’s the kind of thing Mac owners usually say - this laptop just isn’t for them. The Neo is great for its target audience. In fact, even with 8GB of RAM, it can be up to 2x faster than an M2 Air with 16GB in about half of the tasks. It’ll also be brand new, while a used M2

Got my M2 Air in November 2024 as well. It currently says 97% of original battery capacity. I'm hoping the new charge limit setting in MacOS 26.4 will help everyone with maintaining our batteries. That being said, after 8 years Apple will treat the machine as obsolete and no longer provide security