The MacBook Air M2 has a slightly bigger screen at 13.6 inches versus the 13.3-inch display of the MacBook Pro M2. If you really want a meaningful jump up in performance, you need to jump up to the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro.īoth laptops, unfortunately, suffer from the same slow SSD problem found in their base configurations that include 256GB. It takes them a long time to ramp up and still allows the chip to get well over 100 degrees Celsius. This was true in the M1 models of these laptops too, but the difference is reduced due to how Apple continues to tune its fans. That’s thanks to the fans included in the MacBook Pro, unlike the fanless design of the MacBook Air.

In terms of performance, the MacBook Pro 13-inch has slightly better performance, especially in tasks that hit the CPU for a longer period of time. It does mean that, essentially, these two laptops are identical in price when similarly configured. The entry-level MacBook Air M2 has plenty of power when working on spreadsheets, word processing, browsing, and watching movies - and those extra two GPU cores may be wasted on many potential buyers of the MacBook Air. It’ll cost you an extra $100 to bump you up to the 10-core GPU model.īut, if graphics processing isn’t that important to you, running at 80% of the M2’s potential might be good enough. If you order a MacBook Air M2 at the $1,200 price, it only has an 8-core GPU by comparison. If you buy one thing today, make it this HP 2-in-1 laptop for $550ĥ abandoned Apple products that need to make a comebackĪpple just made a huge move to power up your next MacBookįirst, if you get a MacBook Pro 13-inch, its M2 chip comes with a 10-core GPU standard.

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