M2 Air has a MagSafe power connector which is nice if you plan to use it as a portable often M2 Air comes in some different colors that might be more appealing Slightly less bright screens vs the pros The supposedly apocalyptically slow hard drive speeds of the 256GB M2 Air
If you start looking up reviews (which I strongly recommend against), here are things I would caution against caring about because they do not matter to you (they might be important to others with different use cases, but not to you): I would get the lowest spec M1 or M2 MacBook Air based on whichever looks nicer to you. It sounds like you have very basic requirements. If no budget.price is not an issue at all. If you wait a little, rumor has it Apple is working on a 15” MacBook Air to be released within the next year. The only reason not to get the M2 is product unavailability.
* 1-2x/month for 10-20 minutes each time: Using Citrix to access GE image viewing software for radiology still images and video clips of echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) images. * Daily for up to 30 minutes at a time: using Citrix to access a hospital electronic medical record (Meditech, for the health professionals out there) I would use it only a few hours per day, so battery life is not a factor among these models.Īside from the usual email, internet browsing, word processing, and Excel (largest spreadsheet is 5 sheets), my higher intensity uses would be: I'm in the market for a laptop and have decided on a Macbook rather than Windows, Linux or Chromebook, mostly because of the integration with my iPhone, iMessage, etc.