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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by _ph_ on Saturday July 16, 2022 @06:38AM (#32116763)
No, unless your work load is purely SSD bound - in which case you probably want a larger SSD anyway - the M2 Air is consistantly faster than the M1, as the CPU is noticeably faster.

If you get a good deal on an M1, by all means get one as you can save a lot of money. But in real-life usage, any M2 is faster than the M1.

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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by goosedragons on Saturday July 16, 2022 @06:50AM (#32116829)
Or you use more than the 8GB of RAM and have to swap...

Although I also wouldn't be surprised if Apple "updated" the current 256GB M1 Air they still sell to use a single flash chip like the M2 models.

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Re:The 13-Inch MacBook Air by _ph_ on Saturday July 16, 2022 @06:52AM (#32116838)
Even with reasonable amounts of swapping you are unlikely to notice huge differences. Only if you are thrashing the memory, you surely would. But then just getting more memory would be a very wise investment.
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