Adam Kos The successor to the 2020 MacBook Air has been speculated for quite some time. Apple introduced it as part of its opening keynote at WWDC 22, but it wasn't the only hardware it got on. The M2 chip also got the 13" MacBook Pro. Compared to the Air, however, it has retained the old design, so the question arises, which model should I go for?
When Apple introduced the 2015" MacBook in 12, it set a new design direction for its computers. This look was then adopted not only by MacBook Pros, but also by MacBook Air. But last fall, the company introduced 14 and 16" MacBook Pros, which in some respects go back to before this period. The MacBook Air was therefore expected to adopt this design, but the same was to be the case with the smallest MacBook Pro, with the fact that it will also get rid of the Touch Bar. However, this did not happen in this case.
The design of the MacBook Air M2 will take your breath away
The M2 MacBook Air thus looks modern, fresh, up-to-date. Even if the 2015 design is still pleasing seven years later, it's still outdated because we've got something newer here. So when you put the two machines side by side, they look very different. After all, you don't have to do it with the new Air, it was enough to take the 13 and 14 or 16" models in the fall. The new 13" MacBook Pro can actually be described as the SE version of iPhones. We took everything old and just fitted it with a modern chip and here is the result.
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If we look at a direct comparison, both the MacBook Air and the 13" MacBook for 2022 have an M2 chip, an 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, up to 24 GB of unified RAM, up to 2 TB of SSD storage. But the basic MacBook Air only has an 8-core GPU, while the MacBook Pro has a 10-core GPU. If you would like to upgrade to the Pro model in terms of GPU, you have to go for the higher model, which is, however, 7 thousand more expensive than the basic one, which is 4 thousand more than the basic 13" MacBook Pro costs.
But the MacBook Air 2022 has a slightly larger 13,6" Liquid Retina display with a resolution of 2560 x 1664 pixels. MacBook Pro has a 13,3" display with LED backlighting and IPS technology. Its resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels. The brightness of 500 nits is the same for both, as well as a wide color range or True Tone. Of course, there are also differences in the camera, which needs a cutout in the display in the Air. You get a 1080p FaceTime HD camera here, the MacBook Pro has a 720p camera.
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Pavel Jelic The sound reproduction also benefits from the new chassis, which just showed its clear qualities in the 14 and 16" MacBook Pros. Some may miss the Touch Bar, which is still available in the MacBook Pro, others will clearly take the Air precisely because it no longer has it. That's a point of view though. However, according to Apple, the 13" MacBook Pro leads in terms of battery life, as it provides 2 more hours of wireless web browsing (the MacBook Air can handle 15 hours) or playing movies in the Apple TV app (the MacBook Air can handle 18 hours). It has a larger 58,2Wh battery (MacBook Air has 52,6Wh). Both have two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports, but the Air leads in that it also has MagSafe 3.
14 and 16" MacBook Pros
Although the MacBook Pro does not have fast charging support like the new MacBook Air, you will find a 67W USB-C power adapter in its package. It is only 30W for the Air or 35W with two ports in the case of a higher computer configuration. Of course, dimensions can also play a role. The height of the Air is 1,13 cm, the height of the Pro model is 1,56 cm. The width is the same at 30,41 cm, but the Pro model is paradoxically smaller in depth, as it is 21,14 cm compared to 21,5 cm for the Air. Its weight is 1,24 kg, the weight of the MacBook Pro is 1,4 kg.
Nonsense prices
The software will run the same on them, they will also be supported for the same amount of time because they have the same chip. If two GPU cores play a role for you, you will reach for the Pro model, which may pay off even considering the higher configuration of the Air. But if you do without them, then the 13" MacBook Pro doesn't do anything at all. Not an outdated design, not a worse camera, not a smaller display, and for many not even a technological fad in the form of a Touch Bar. Maybe just the stamina.
13" MacBook Pro with M1 chip
The base of the new modern and attractive MacBook Air costs CZK 36, the higher configuration costs CZK 990. The base of the new but outdated 45" MacBook Pro costs CZK 990, a higher configuration with the only difference in the form of 13GB of storage costs CZK 38. Do you see the paradox? The higher version of the MacBook Air 990 is CZK 512 more expensive than the equally powerful Pro model. These machines differ only in the modern design of the Air model and the benefits that come from it.
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It's certainly nice that Apple has updated both series. But their pricing is simply strange. An equally powerful entry-level computer is more expensive than an equally powerful professional-level computer. Apple just missed a bit here. Either he should have priced the new Airy a few thousand lower, even for 2020, or he should have redesigned the 13" MacBook Pro and priced it a little higher. It would better define the space from the 14" MacBook Pro, which starts at 58 CZK, so we have an unnecessarily large price gap here. This would make decision making much easier for many users.
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