People who don’t wanna sell their organs to afford an M2 Macbook Pro. For a budget of $2000 you can get a better spec windows machine than the overpriced crap that is a Mac. Macs might be efficient but they’re not openly available, stupid to repair, and you can no longer upgrade them which takes the value away.
You're so right though. It's terrible. Especially considering it won't even run my 7 hour long 8k video and 999 tabs open without overheating! Unacceptable from Apple.
I don't know, maybe use Firefox. I have an i5 10th gen on Linux, and I have about 45 tabs open, including Gmail bloatware. 8GB too. It's doing just fine. That laptop is said to be 15 times faster than this one, right? So what's the matter?
@@ytbaccA1 if you are still looking air would be good for general browsing, note taking, photo editing, coding e.t.c. If you are looking to do heavy video editing or 3d modeling or other intensive tasks pro is better. You can still do them on air to some success but it will slow down after a few minutes.
This thing stops letting me input text with just Chrome and no more than 20 tabs open. I don’t care what self riotous “you are holding it wrong” comment you have… no modern computer should stress out at that level of work.
Lol, college student here and this is my favorite laptop I’ve ever owned. Got the base model because it fit my limited budget, it does everything I need stupidly fast (SSD gate is NOT an actual, real world problem, UA-camrs need to drop that shit) and yes, I even do video editing on it and it works like a champ. I’ve never, EVER had it get too hot to touch or sit on my lap, even when playing games on high graphical settings. MacBook Air M2 is a great computer, anyone who says otherwise is either a snob or needs a Pro for their crazy heavy work loads.
You playing sim city? Lol. I just ordered my MacBook Air but I’m expecting to be disappointed with the performance since I only got the 8GB option (with the ssd upgrade. Figured since I have a gaming pc anything harder than say, a 1080P drone video could be done on that so that I can at least store more than 3 photos).
SSD”gate” is literally just logically inferenced by information publicly available FROM THE SSD MANUFACTURORS THEMSELVES. It’s not up for debate: small SSDs are slower and have less read/write cycles. This is computer science not poetry class, there’s nothing subjective about it
People are so mad lol I have a base MacBook Air M2 and it’s great. Everyone so mad I spent my money on something I enjoy. Good thing I don’t do heavy heavy workloads because then I would have bought a MBP14 not an Air. I start my day off every day just like and other MacBook owner wiping off my finger prints from the day before lol.
Heavy workload doesn't mean 3d rendering or some kind of 8k editing ... The MacBook M2 base SSD holding a lot even after some chrome tabs while editing ... Btw not everyone rich to own M1 pro 14 ... M1 air was so popular because it's handles everything so smoothly... Under heavy load M1 air out performs m2 air... Apple also increased the price so it doesn't make sense to release a bad product... Nobody care about what you bought... It's reviewers job to tell this issues with a product
@@brahmasthaandipramana7591 yeahh, im glad i didnt buy the MBP m1 pro last year and instead go with the ZEPHYRUS G14 since NVIDIA GPU just blows apple GPU in 3d workloads at the same price range
Exactly !!! “Why would you buy that?”. I literally stream on twitch with a base model MBA and it does it just as well as my gaming pc did. In fact I sold my gaming PC because I was neglecting it lol
Except 99% of mba workloads aren’t supposed to go over 5mins long 😂 Have you ever browse the web, watch movies, excel, wordprocessing, zoom calls, social media? It doesn’t tax your cpu/gpu for 5mins straight at 100% 🤷🏻♂️ But of course, we got to run cinebench in a loop to make a big sting about it 😂
One that I how you test a system. and two if you do only websurfing then a chromebook/old low end laptop, if you are buying an apple product you are probably a professional user using heavy editing software (think about music production/video editing/3d modeling) where every second wasted because it is slowing down from overheating is one less commission you can do in that time (time is money). And third the whole thing about apple is efficiency and reliability otherwise buying into their ecosystem is dumb (unless you are ready to pay too much because "it is an apple"), overheating makes it unreliable and it is telling me that either the engineering team needs to be fired or it isn't efficient . So it is CRITICAL, but it's apple anyways so...
@@jewishlifematters Buy the Air if you want a premium fanless ultra portable notebook, because that's what it is. The use cases that you describe are pro users, there is a pro line specifically designed for their use cases. If you do casual video editing then the Air will handle that fine, since a few minutes more doesn’t matter to casual users.
@@williamwallace410 good point, but still i ask,(unless they reallly like apple's software) wouldn't make sense to use something that is not apple by that point? i mean if you do business it is supposed to good from what I heard, but also video editing you can do more with the same price point, in professional mid range windows laptops or mid range desktops (which might be out of the question).
@@hazyproduct1692 literally in the teardown video you can see that there is no heatsink. It's literally a heat spreader that has like 1/10th of thermal mass of a heatsink. Thus the M2 Air is able to completely overheat to 108C and start throttling in just 23 seconds compared to M1's a couple minutes or more
Anyone defending Apple for putting only 8gb of ram in an actual laptop in this day and age deserves everything that's coming their way when it's obsolete in less than 3 years.
Don t listen to this. If you re jumping from an intel from a few years ago, the macbook is incredibly powerful with no slowdowns or overheating. The thing I loved the most it s that it was always cold at touch, even in my lap, completely silent and super light and portable
i use an m1 macbook air 16g 500gb and never had problems running my 400 firefox tabs and 5 vscode windows. it’s not like editing videos but it’s the best laptop for full stack web development imo
I can tell you haven’t done any video editing or hard tasks on it, I’ve done programming video editing etc. (hard workloads) mind you, on the absolute base model and it’s worked FLAWLESSLY do your job and come up with the correct conclusion. I guarantee you no windows laptop at the same price can work half as well as the air 🤷🏻♂️
@@Maximus20778 Which are absolutely horrible except for strictly gaming. Battery life is 3-4 hours. Extremely chunky and heavy, low quality display panel, low resolution screen, cheap touchpad and keyboard, slow charging, massive heat generation. Literally cannot be compared to the Apple M2 Air
@ً I beg of you. Please tell me how I’m wrong about anything I have said. I have more windows devices and I have a Apple M1 MacBook. The only reason I don’t give up windows completely is due to file management of media and The ability to Game. I get 15 hours of battery life using my MacBook… not a single windows laptop can achieve that.. Times have changed buddy, I used to dislike apple too, but their technology now is top notch.
It’s not designed for this level of workload. It’s always had a fanless design and has never been intend for heavy workload. This is why the pros exist. For those looking to buy, if it’s used for it’s intended purpose, eg as a notebook not a powerhouse, you won’t encounter any thermal throttling or heating issues.
Then don't put a powerhouse chip in it damnit this is like a car factory putting a 1000hp v12 in a little economy shitbox that car would overheat and be uncontrolable too
You’re not supposed to do sustained workloads on it? Well it can but it’s about 20% slower than if it was a relatively shirt workload. This macbook is targeted for the general public, people who don’t usually do these kind of workloads and usually just browse the web and watch videos.
I own the MacBook Air M2 version and this guy is complaining it won’t work well with large amounts of work. It’s literally called Air, you could of bought the PRO for that type of stuff dude 💀😂
I dare anyone to head to an Apple store and say with a straight face "I have super high end heavy duty video editing, transcoding, audio, 8k raw, 3D rendering and maybe some heavy gaming on the side and I'm thinking of doing it on the base model M2 MacBook Air". Go on. See what they say. If they don't immediately point you to at least a 13 inch MBP. you’re not in an Apple Store… That's if they don't laugh you out of the store first.... Muh Overheating ISTG 🤣
I'm a student and I bought the M2 MacBook air midnight colour, it's fantastic for my use case! I don't do any heavy use, the heaviest is probably connecting it to a second display so that I can watch lectures as I type or do something else.
This is confusing. you just say that the MacBook Air has performance problems, thermal throttling and memory speed, and then you say to get the full performance is to get the MacBook Air.
You are whining for the sake of whining. I have had my m2 air for over a year and it literally never thermal throttled. If you want to do heavy work on it, why don’t you get the pro in the first place?
One thing I find it really weird is: M1(Oct 2020) only support one monitor, M1Pro (Nov 2021) does support 4 monitors, M2 (July 2022) only support one monitor. Even the old Intel MacBook supports two monitors. It seems it's not a tech issue for Apple to support more monitors, but more of a marketing strategy to force people buy the more expensive MacBook Pro. M2 MacBook Air is lightweight, slim, but the way how apple treat the customers under Cook lead, really sucks.
@@thamzhiyong3161 yes, and even any modern intel chipset supports that. Apple did this intentionally I think this is the problem, really sick of how cook operate product like this.
@@turismoride6617 It's not about buying a displaylink adapter, it's all about the company's strategy ripping people off. MBA 2012 supports dual external monitor, while a M1/M2 MBA/MBP does not. The display link also need to consume usb bandwidths.
Well, that is the point. A new product can’t compete with an older product if it’s more expensive and still have downgrade. If performance wasn’t a concern then there is way better looking (appearance/screen/audio) laptop out there that would satisfies the day to day task a MacBook Air would.
What are the 14” and 16” MacBook Pros for? And of course it thermal throttles because it is a fanless laptop. And then just don’t buy the midnight color.
I love my midnight air, no fans no noise or heat. Runs cool like an iPad. If you’ve bought a screw driver to drill a hole ur own problem. Product is ace.
This m2 is not slow, and of course its going to be hot if you run heavy apps on it since Its fanless, what do yiu expect to a fanless device, even phones as an heating issue since It has no fans inside
Here's a crazy thought, maybe add a fan or two that cost less than ¢80 since all of apples products are made in Chinese sweatshops with poor worker regulations and working conditions that's the least they can do smh
Well, for me, the M2 Air base model with the new color is the best lap and I’m using it rn. THE ONLY THING I WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE FINGERPRINTS
I once helped my friend work on his wife’s laptop, put in new ram and swap the gf for a ssd. He asked “Where’s the fans?” I said “The cpu only pulls 15 watts, I could probably put a thermal pad on it and and stick it to the frame and it would be enough to cool it, let alone the heat spreader.”
Buy a low end I you aren't doing heavy work, a chromebook/low end hp(doesn't matter) laptop. If you are buying apple it makes sense as a productive professional user, in which case there is few professional workload that aren't heavy workloads.
Nobody? It's just apple fanboys ..... Similar priced windows laptop comes with gen 4 SSD with OLED display and capable of handling all the issues mentioned here
Tf is bro waffling abt? M2 Air works perfectly well under any circumstance. It’s doesn’t get warm at all, it only does when you overload it with shit that’s beyond its capability, that’s why you’ve got the pro. Bro fell off when he said “heavy work”
No is not, you guys think to push the Air until overheat cuz it has a powerful chip, yes it’s powerful for most of tasks that only average and semi pro users do. M chips are like intel which M2 is like i3. If people wanna use it for anything pro just they get the 14” and 16” MBP
You know what else thermal throttled yet everyone didn’t have a problem with, the M1 Air. As someone who has been using a MacBook Air M2 since launch, I have yet to run into a workload that thermal throttles this machine. Even playing games it gets warm but never lags or anything! Plus the midnight color is honestly stunning looking and doesn’t get more fingerprinty than Space Grey, plus you can also just not get midnight if you don’t want 😂
@@angellibeans I got an upgraded version with 16gb of ram and 512 gb of storage! At the time I got a student discount which was like $400 so it was great! Still using it and haven't had any issues!
Picked up my midnight macbook air m2 with 1tb hard drive and 16gb ram - it is fantastic the throttling issue is exaggerated nonsense. it is wonderfully fast and does everything i ask it to without fail. best, most beautiful laptop i've ever used.
From the look of it, I already knew the midnight one would have tons of fingerprints, but I still got it anyways because I usually get cases for everything 😅
Definitely a finger print magnet, but if you’re only using it for casual tasks then you’re fine. I haven’t experienced any overheating in 2ish years of use
I am a solicitor and use the M2 macbook air for everyday. I am mainly using word, outlook, onedrive and a cloud based practice management system. I am sometimes doing file transfers of over 50gb with no issue. Every machine has it's purpose, this is great value for someone who is doing basic administrative tasks.
Apple: Relases a product that performs worse than the older version of the same product Reviewers: Points that out Apple fan bois: I love my mac I didn't buy it to use it anyways I only do things on it that I could do on a 20 year old pcs anyways who cares if it burns itself to death and runs worse than the older version don't hurt my apple they are a small company and they need my help
3000$ laptop and it can not handle heavy work. I’d say it’s waisted money. Imagine what kind of a beast machine you could buy instead. Latest i9 CPU or AMD CPU + 128GB DDR4 ram + RTX 4090.
Remember this is a laptop, where portability, lightweight, and good battery life is a must. Those PC configurations are great, but good luck with the battery life and the bulkyness need to be done to make it stays cool + not mentioning the often crash windows OS Macs are for developers, researchers, content creators, film editor, and other heavy productivity tasks (except gaming of course)
@@PradiptaGitaya i have been doing all These things on my alienware without any Problem. Even Gaming. Battary Life pretty good now with These machines.
@@LyroLife Macbook is a different segment. Macbook has best build quality, better battery life, thinner, less noise, less heat, no dust to clean etc. All these gaming laptops suffer from thiese things
@@falcon3169 true but one thing is having enough power to do what you need and other thing is pushing it, it’s like you have low hardware and try to push your PC to play games that requires more that you have
They could add a fan in it, but they didn't because if they added that nobody would buy the high variants of MacBook lineup. Other variants have the same M2 chip with fans so those have not any thermal throttling issue.
For those confused peeps, he meant "It really sucks because the m2 chip is really powerful, but the only way to get the full performance is to get the 13 inch macbook *pro* which also has it's own problem (bulkiness)"
what’s it’s made for 😂 like these mfers over here testing 4k editing and bulls to rendering software that even windows at 1100 can’t perform. not sure why they don’t understand that
@@awesome4349 I have both windows and mac so I can vouch that both are great in their own ways, I was just saying if all they need a laptop for is studying/writing papers/browsing then a 1000 dollar laptop is definitely overkill for something like that.
I don't thing any point of him was correct because I don't thing any of them are making big issue I have macbook air m2 and I didn't experience any of them yes it has slow SSD but it never disappoint you. You can go for it
Tech reviewers when the entry level mac can only handle 4 layers of 4K video at once, despite the fact that the intel MacBook Pro that cost way more could only handle 3
Love my MacBook Air m2 256gb, never had an issue with it and I've had it for 2 months. It can even run cool small games like Polytopia without any problems and only minor heating for when I'm bored in class. I've never had it getting warmer other than when I play certain games and it's always just a little bit of heat. It stays stone cold for 99% of the time I'm using it. But I'm not a designer or developer, I'm a translating student I only use word and powerpoint. It's fast too, perfect for multi-tasking.
"thermal throttles under heavy load" My brother in christ the MBA was never meant for heavy loads. It's always been an underpowered laptop. The only thing that got better over the years is the battery life and display
this worries me because my mbp 2018 throttles and let alone doesnt work at all (worst mbp ever) so if my mbp which is supposed to be able to do heavy work can't and the air which is supposed to be much better than my mbp can't either with m2 chip, then what will actually work? Is the throttle still an issue with new M chips???
Have any of y’all seen how these things are cooled now? The fan just circulates a bit of air like an exhaust fan. The back lid seals areas and forces the air to pass over the cpu. So take care of that back lid. Just removing the lid causes it to thermal throttle.
well I have the 512gb 10 core version and its great and I love it. and I got it in the midnight colour and it does get fingerprints but it doesn't bother me
@@fl4646 no not unless you’re playing a game or something then it can get a bit hot in under an hour. But if you’re just doing tasks on it then it will not get hot.
I’m so tired of these reviews. These guys somehow think that everyone buying a MacBook Air is gonna do video editing and shit. Tell me you’re bad at reviewing without telling me.
I use it for editing music videos and it does pretty good. 4k footage, typically just work in an HD sequence. After effects and photoshop and premiere all simultaneously and it does fairly well
I bought the midnight since it's the only one available. Yes, finger printed and dust collector machine. But definitely powerful and doesn't get hot easily
After being an avid apple product avoider for 10 years, (first phone being a Samsung galaxy S1 in 2013 then having Nokias and oppo A72) and finally buying an iPhone 13 mini last year and then buying the m2 mba after my first laptop being a 2015/16 Dell Inspiron 3000 i3 ~2.8kg brick 😤…., I think is a big step up? 😅🤔
I do software development on it... Constant compiles, vm's, docker etc.... It's awesome. Amazing hardware, great battery, and produces almost no heat compared to my 16in (x86_64) pro. Can't complain.
why would you buy a macbook air for heavy workflows? the pro was literally designed for resource heavy tasks and 4K video editing? That’s why they gave the pros the fan
who buys an Air for "heavy work" the Pro literally exists for that reason
$2000
Who used a mac for heavy work
Nah, real power users buy desktops. I'll never buy an apple computer again. Mine fried in one year of machine learning
I agree
People who don’t wanna sell their organs to afford an M2 Macbook Pro.
For a budget of $2000 you can get a better spec windows machine than the overpriced crap that is a Mac.
Macs might be efficient but they’re not openly available, stupid to repair, and you can no longer upgrade them which takes the value away.
You're so right though. It's terrible. Especially considering it won't even run my 7 hour long 8k video and 999 tabs open without overheating! Unacceptable from Apple.
I know right? They should've added a bulky fan that gets louder than a JT8D turbofan engine and heavier than a bag full of books
@@StampleD2147AI they are all just trying to farm views by just hating on a hot topic
I don't know, maybe use Firefox. I have an i5 10th gen on Linux, and I have about 45 tabs open, including Gmail bloatware. 8GB too. It's doing just fine. That laptop is said to be 15 times faster than this one, right? So what's the matter?
intel with 600 dollars smack the ass of apple
@@Potato_Quality7it was a joke.......
The guy says "Air" and then proceeds to say "heavy work load"
He's just pushing people to buy the pro
@@kimmy4393 he doesnt even want people to buy the Pro
What’s considered “heavy work”? Do you think the m2 is good for college students?
@@ytbaccA1 if you are still looking air would be good for general browsing, note taking, photo editing, coding e.t.c. If you are looking to do heavy video editing or 3d modeling or other intensive tasks pro is better. You can still do them on air to some success but it will slow down after a few minutes.
@@dedvi thank you!
my guy, buying an m2 MacBook air for heavy work is like buying a Rolls Royce to race a 1000hp supra.
😂🤣🤣 Oh my
WHAHAHAHA YOU BEST DESCRIBED IT BRO😂
exactly....
the 15 air is amazing for most things but heavy video work is the one thing its definitely not for
@@jasminehaliza4886whats considered heavy work? If i want to edit youtube videos do you think it's better to upgrade?
🤣🤣
I have the laptop, it hasn’t gotten hot once, i’m a college student, sometimes i take it off my lap because the metal is really cold.
Real?
@@SELEX_EFB ?
@@mgdii5435 you for real?
@@SELEX_EFB yes I'm using it rn and it's cold.
@@mgdii5435 ty
Dude lost all accountability when he said "heavy work"
you mean credibility?
@@ejy-u1x😂 this man lost all his credibility to comment
This thing stops letting me input text with just Chrome and no more than 20 tabs open. I don’t care what self riotous “you are holding it wrong” comment you have… no modern computer should stress out at that level of work.
@@P.SeudoNymwhy got 20 tabs open with chrome😭
@@P.SeudoNym20 tabs bro
Lol, college student here and this is my favorite laptop I’ve ever owned. Got the base model because it fit my limited budget, it does everything I need stupidly fast (SSD gate is NOT an actual, real world problem, UA-camrs need to drop that shit) and yes, I even do video editing on it and it works like a champ. I’ve never, EVER had it get too hot to touch or sit on my lap, even when playing games on high graphical settings. MacBook Air M2 is a great computer, anyone who says otherwise is either a snob or needs a Pro for their crazy heavy work loads.
You playing sim city? Lol. I just ordered my MacBook Air but I’m expecting to be disappointed with the performance since I only got the 8GB option (with the ssd upgrade. Figured since I have a gaming pc anything harder than say, a 1080P drone video could be done on that so that I can at least store more than 3 photos).
@@cosmic7234how is the temp? Update?
Do u think you can use it for youtube video editing?
SSD”gate” is literally just logically inferenced by information publicly available FROM THE SSD MANUFACTURORS THEMSELVES. It’s not up for debate: small SSDs are slower and have less read/write cycles. This is computer science not poetry class, there’s nothing subjective about it
@@ohohpelia2166 you can, but if you’re editing 4k don’t expect the best performance
People are so mad lol I have a base MacBook Air M2 and it’s great. Everyone so mad I spent my money on something I enjoy. Good thing I don’t do heavy heavy workloads because then I would have bought a MBP14 not an Air.
I start my day off every day just like and other MacBook owner wiping off my finger prints from the day before lol.
Heavy workload doesn't mean 3d rendering or some kind of 8k editing ... The MacBook M2 base SSD holding a lot even after some chrome tabs while editing ... Btw not everyone rich to own M1 pro 14 ... M1 air was so popular because it's handles everything so smoothly... Under heavy load M1 air out performs m2 air... Apple also increased the price so it doesn't make sense to release a bad product... Nobody care about what you bought... It's reviewers job to tell this issues with a product
@@falcon3169 3D is suck on Mac. No Matter what version it is
@@brahmasthaandipramana7591 yeahh, im glad i didnt buy the MBP m1 pro last year and instead go with the ZEPHYRUS G14 since NVIDIA GPU just blows apple GPU in 3d workloads at the same price range
Exactly !!! “Why would you buy that?”. I literally stream on twitch with a base model MBA and it does it just as well as my gaming pc did. In fact I sold my gaming PC because I was neglecting it lol
Except 99% of mba workloads aren’t supposed to go over 5mins long 😂
Have you ever browse the web, watch movies, excel, wordprocessing, zoom calls, social media?
It doesn’t tax your cpu/gpu for 5mins straight at 100%
🤷🏻♂️
But of course, we got to run cinebench in a loop to make a big sting about it 😂
One that I how you test a system. and two if you do only websurfing then a chromebook/old low end laptop, if you are buying an apple product you are probably a professional user using heavy editing software (think about music production/video editing/3d modeling) where every second wasted because it is slowing down from overheating is one less commission you can do in that time (time is money). And third the whole thing about apple is efficiency and reliability otherwise buying into their ecosystem is dumb (unless you are ready to pay too much because "it is an apple"), overheating makes it unreliable and it is telling me that either the engineering team needs to be fired or it isn't efficient . So it is CRITICAL, but it's apple anyways so...
@@jewishlifematters there’s a pro line for a reason
@@kmradosevich so your saying to buy the air because it's apple?
@@jewishlifematters Buy the Air if you want a premium fanless ultra portable notebook, because that's what it is. The use cases that you describe are pro users, there is a pro line specifically designed for their use cases. If you do casual video editing then the Air will handle that fine, since a few minutes more doesn’t matter to casual users.
@@williamwallace410 good point, but still i ask,(unless they reallly like apple's software) wouldn't make sense to use something that is not apple by that point? i mean if you do business it is supposed to good from what I heard, but also video editing you can do more with the same price point, in professional mid range windows laptops or mid range desktops (which might be out of the question).
I’ve had it for a month. Use it moderately, it never even got warm
That's because they put thermal insulation over the heatsink, thus containing all the heat inside the CPU and frying it to death in about a year
@@one_step_sideways source?
@@hazyproduct1692 Teardown videos. It was important to note that the M2 MacBook Air doesn't even have a heatsink
@@one_step_sideways If it didn't have a heatsink it would barely be able to function. Who told you it didn't have one?
@@hazyproduct1692 literally in the teardown video you can see that there is no heatsink. It's literally a heat spreader that has like 1/10th of thermal mass of a heatsink. Thus the M2 Air is able to completely overheat to 108C and start throttling in just 23 seconds compared to M1's a couple minutes or more
This comment section is the embodiment of "You're using your computer wrong"
Its more like buying a Civic expecting to keep up with a Corvette. You can race both but the one meant for racing will win.
Anyone defending Apple for putting only 8gb of ram in an actual laptop in this day and age deserves everything that's coming their way when it's obsolete in less than 3 years.
@BrianOblivionB except the civic cost as much as a corvette in this situation so you expect it to keep up.
no.. pro laptops are all 2,000 plus... you are not getting a base level air for pro tasks..
@@vhateverliewell great news, they took away the 8gbs in future models
Don t listen to this. If you re jumping from an intel from a few years ago, the macbook is incredibly powerful with no slowdowns or overheating. The thing I loved the most it s that it was always cold at touch, even in my lap, completely silent and super light and portable
"Thermal throttling with heavy work"
Then get a MacBook Pro, you dingus. The Air is not designed for heavy work, that's why it thermal throttles.
He’s letting people know who are interested in buying the computer, dingus. 🤦🏼♂️
@@CenobiteBeldar I'm pretty sure those people need to know which computer actually suits their needs
But it's 2k why can't we do heavy loads? Y'all are buying for brands
@@Maximus20778 I think it's much better to buy the Mac with additional performance instead of forcing performance on a weaker one
@@Maximus20778 its not 2k lmao
i use an m1 macbook air 16g 500gb and never had problems running my 400 firefox tabs and 5 vscode windows. it’s not like editing videos but it’s the best laptop for full stack web development imo
M2 is good for coding?
@@KISHOREKUMAR-su1bx what languages do you write in?
@@5ft_11in mostly c & c++
Is 8Gb of Ram enough to code with Python ?
@@mafre6340 If it's a mac or MacBook yeah
I can tell you haven’t done any video editing or hard tasks on it, I’ve done programming video editing etc. (hard workloads) mind you, on the absolute base model and it’s worked FLAWLESSLY do your job and come up with the correct conclusion. I guarantee you no windows laptop at the same price can work half as well as the air 🤷🏻♂️
is programming good enough for this macbook ??
There are $500 dollar rtx computers
@@imgroot6831 any info?
@@Maximus20778 Which are absolutely horrible except for strictly gaming. Battery life is 3-4 hours. Extremely chunky and heavy, low quality display panel, low resolution screen, cheap touchpad and keyboard, slow charging, massive heat generation. Literally cannot be compared to the Apple M2 Air
@ً I beg of you. Please tell me how I’m wrong about anything I have said. I have more windows devices and I have a Apple M1 MacBook. The only reason I don’t give up windows completely is due to file management of media and The ability to Game. I get 15 hours of battery life using my MacBook… not a single windows laptop can achieve that.. Times have changed buddy, I used to dislike apple too, but their technology now is top notch.
Sick and tired of these youtubers. MacBook air doesn’t intend to use for pros. You have more of options.
Yes, if you need more power get an actual pro machine like the 14 and 16-inch that is their purpose! 😩
Macbook Air is 1100. It shouldn't matter stop making excuses
@@Bidwellz9 and the pros reaches more than 2000$ what do you expect
These youtubers need to get a life outside their laptop machines
@@Bidwellz9 MacBook Air starts at $999 actually. It’s called the M1, which is still in the lineup
It’s not designed for this level of workload. It’s always had a fanless design and has never been intend for heavy workload. This is why the pros exist. For those looking to buy, if it’s used for it’s intended purpose, eg as a notebook not a powerhouse, you won’t encounter any thermal throttling or heating issues.
Then don't put a powerhouse chip in it damnit this is like a car factory putting a 1000hp v12 in a little economy shitbox that car would overheat and be uncontrolable too
at least limit the multi core performance, they just did this to make benchmark result looks great
@@cin2110 😂how do you get performance during that 5 mins burst then bozo?
@@notchipotle that’s what thermal throttle does 😂
You’re not supposed to do sustained workloads on it? Well it can but it’s about 20% slower than if it was a relatively shirt workload. This macbook is targeted for the general public, people who don’t usually do these kind of workloads and usually just browse the web and watch videos.
I own the MacBook Air M2 version and this guy is complaining it won’t work well with large amounts of work. It’s literally called Air, you could of bought the PRO for that type of stuff dude 💀😂
I dare anyone to head to an Apple store and say with a straight face "I have super high end heavy duty video editing, transcoding, audio, 8k raw, 3D rendering and maybe some heavy gaming on the side and I'm thinking of doing it on the base model M2 MacBook Air".
Go on. See what they say. If they don't immediately point you to at least a 13 inch MBP. you’re not in an Apple Store… That's if they don't laugh you out of the store first....
Muh Overheating ISTG 🤣
Did u just say gaming on mac, mac is trash if u want heavy work get a PC
@@printhallo ok try bringing that thing everywhere you go
@@wr8079 xD its pretty simple there are gaming laptops that have 3090s in them or u can bring an external mini 3090ti thats like an external drive, xD
@@printhallo who is gonna bring that to a cafe
@@wr8079 razer blade 14 have an rtx3080ti gpu inside it, and you can bring it every where lmao
I'm a student and I bought the M2 MacBook air midnight colour, it's fantastic for my use case! I don't do any heavy use, the heaviest is probably connecting it to a second display so that I can watch lectures as I type or do something else.
This is confusing. you just say that the MacBook Air has performance problems, thermal throttling and memory speed, and then you say to get the full performance is to get the MacBook Air.
You are whining for the sake of whining. I have had my m2 air for over a year and it literally never thermal throttled. If you want to do heavy work on it, why don’t you get the pro in the first place?
One thing I find it really weird is: M1(Oct 2020) only support one monitor, M1Pro (Nov 2021) does support 4 monitors, M2 (July 2022) only support one monitor. Even the old Intel MacBook supports two monitors. It seems it's not a tech issue for Apple to support more monitors, but more of a marketing strategy to force people buy the more expensive MacBook Pro. M2 MacBook Air is lightweight, slim, but the way how apple treat the customers under Cook lead, really sucks.
damn even a huawei matebook x pro can support 2 monitors...
@@thamzhiyong3161 yes, and even any modern intel chipset supports that. Apple did this intentionally I think this is the problem, really sick of how cook operate product like this.
Thats a display controller issue for the tiny footprint
buy a slightly expensive displaylink adapter and your m1 air can support multiple monitors without any issues
@@turismoride6617 It's not about buying a displaylink adapter, it's all about the company's strategy ripping people off. MBA 2012 supports dual external monitor, while a M1/M2 MBA/MBP does not. The display link also need to consume usb bandwidths.
all these tech UA-camrs had their expectations to high for a MacBook air just cause it has a m2
Well, that is the point. A new product can’t compete with an older product if it’s more expensive and still have downgrade. If performance wasn’t a concern then there is way better looking (appearance/screen/audio) laptop out there that would satisfies the day to day task a MacBook Air would.
That is because the M2 SHOULD BE BETTER. LAUNCHING A PRODUCT AND SAYING IT'S REVOLUTIONARY WHEN IT ISN'T IS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MOVE
@@zephyr2561 it is better tho
“Fuse them together and now u have the best setup” yea u get the 14in MacBook Pro 😂
no, the MacBook Pro 14'' is ugly looks old compared to the air
@@shekishral6570what? They use the same design
What are the 14” and 16” MacBook Pros for? And of course it thermal throttles because it is a fanless laptop. And then just don’t buy the midnight color.
I love my midnight air, no fans no noise or heat. Runs cool like an iPad. If you’ve bought a screw driver to drill a hole ur own problem. Product is ace.
what do you do about the fingerprints?
@@86fangirl not even an issue, UA-camrs have hyped it up
The number 1 hater of apple😮💨
Ofcourse it throttles its a fanless machine lol
I like how everyone is defending apple like apple genuinely cares about their feelings lmao.
Ahh yes let me defend a multi trilion dollar company they need my free fanboyism services
This m2 is not slow, and of course its going to be hot if you run heavy apps on it since Its fanless, what do yiu expect to a fanless device, even phones as an heating issue since It has no fans inside
Here's a crazy thought, maybe add a fan or two that cost less than ¢80 since all of apples products are made in Chinese sweatshops with poor worker regulations and working conditions that's the least they can do smh
@brendablasthatchnot need and thermal throttling don't really line up, just saying..
Well, for me, the M2 Air base model with the new color is the best lap and I’m using it rn. THE ONLY THING I WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE FINGERPRINTS
I don’t do anything crazy with mine. Web based Bootcamp stuff, music, shopping, videos. Stuff like that. Very fast and never got even warm
How's the display for watching movies and stuff?
You’re not supposed to use a MacBook Air for heavy lifting. It’s meant for the casual browser.
I once helped my friend work on his wife’s laptop, put in new ram and swap the gf for a ssd. He asked “Where’s the fans?” I said “The cpu only pulls 15 watts, I could probably put a thermal pad on it and and stick it to the frame and it would be enough to cool it, let alone the heat spreader.”
Who cares. It looks good. Nobody does heavy stuff on their MacBook Air
Powerful chip without cooler bruh
Buy a low end I you aren't doing heavy work, a chromebook/low end hp(doesn't matter) laptop. If you are buying apple it makes sense as a productive professional user, in which case there is few professional workload that aren't heavy workloads.
Nobody? It's just apple fanboys ..... Similar priced windows laptop comes with gen 4 SSD with OLED display and capable of handling all the issues mentioned here
I’m saying, I bought it for programming and I haven’t had any issues..
@@falcon3169 lol which windows laptop? the dell xps 13 is more expensive and slower with worse battery life. whatsmore the design is tacky.
Tf is bro waffling abt? M2 Air works perfectly well under any circumstance. It’s doesn’t get warm at all, it only does when you overload it with shit that’s beyond its capability, that’s why you’ve got the pro. Bro fell off when he said “heavy work”
Works perfectly fine with me
No is not, you guys think to push the Air until overheat cuz it has a powerful chip, yes it’s powerful for most of tasks that only average and semi pro users do. M chips are like intel which M2 is like i3. If people wanna use it for anything pro just they get the 14” and 16” MBP
Uhhh.. no. The M2 is faster in single and multi core performance than intel’s fastest laptop i7.
@@randomoneforstuff3696 I meant the term of chips family 🙂
You know what else thermal throttled yet everyone didn’t have a problem with, the M1 Air. As someone who has been using a MacBook Air M2 since launch, I have yet to run into a workload that thermal throttles this machine. Even playing games it gets warm but never lags or anything! Plus the midnight color is honestly stunning looking and doesn’t get more fingerprinty than Space Grey, plus you can also just not get midnight if you don’t want 😂
wow what kind of games did u playy? Also did u get the base model? i’m thinking of buying one but i also want to play light games casually
@@angellibeans I got an upgraded version with 16gb of ram and 512 gb of storage! At the time I got a student discount which was like $400 so it was great! Still using it and haven't had any issues!
how u pay 400&
retail is like 1k US?
@@SycoVFXthey said they got while it was on student discount
Picked up my midnight macbook air m2 with 1tb hard drive and 16gb ram - it is fantastic the throttling issue is exaggerated nonsense. it is wonderfully fast and does everything i ask it to without fail. best, most beautiful laptop i've ever used.
From the look of it, I already knew the midnight one would have tons of fingerprints, but I still got it anyways because I usually get cases for everything 😅
How is it doing now?
Do you have updated on the midnight ?
Definitely a finger print magnet, but if you’re only using it for casual tasks then you’re fine. I haven’t experienced any overheating in 2ish years of use
Do you expect the Air to perform like a Pro??
Is 2k
Bro they are not for heavy use I bought my mom a m2 Mac 256g 8gb a ram all she does is zoom, emails, and office 365… she loves it
Bro fell off when he said “heavy work”
I am a solicitor and use the M2 macbook air for everyday. I am mainly using word, outlook, onedrive and a cloud based practice management system. I am sometimes doing file transfers of over 50gb with no issue. Every machine has it's purpose, this is great value for someone who is doing basic administrative tasks.
Apple:
Relases a product that performs worse than the older version of the same product
Reviewers:
Points that out
Apple fan bois:
I love my mac I didn't buy it to use it anyways I only do things on it that I could do on a 20 year old pcs anyways who cares if it burns itself to death and runs worse than the older version don't hurt my apple they are a small company and they need my help
It doesnt perform worse
If you broke just say that 🤥
@@ivangutierrez738 it’s true tho.
@@Ile-des-Soeurs_Verdun Money over feelings 😹
3000$ laptop and it can not handle heavy work. I’d say it’s waisted money. Imagine what kind of a beast machine you could buy instead. Latest i9 CPU or AMD CPU + 128GB DDR4 ram + RTX 4090.
Macs are mostly for content creators
Remember this is a laptop, where portability, lightweight, and good battery life is a must. Those PC configurations are great, but good luck with the battery life and the bulkyness need to be done to make it stays cool + not mentioning the often crash windows OS
Macs are for developers, researchers, content creators, film editor, and other heavy productivity tasks (except gaming of course)
@@PradiptaGitaya i have been doing all These things on my alienware without any Problem. Even Gaming. Battary Life pretty good now with These machines.
@@LyroLife Macbook is a different segment. Macbook has best build quality, better battery life, thinner, less noise, less heat, no dust to clean etc. All these gaming laptops suffer from thiese things
When did you buy an air for pro workloads?
M2 have powers to handle heavy work even 4k video editing ... The point is thermal throttling and poor SSD holding that M2 performance a lot ...
@@falcon3169 true but one thing is having enough power to do what you need and other thing is pushing it, it’s like you have low hardware and try to push your PC to play games that requires more that you have
Even if it isn’t a pro workload the thermal paste issue and no cooler will make it hot if you use it for a long time
@@falcon3169 so say you don’t want to spend the money for a pro.
Solution: put a fan that actually spins. In previous models the fan didn't even spin up over 20%
Unbalanced and irrelevant review for 99% of users
Been using mine for a year. I throw serious workloads at it without issue. Handles 3 4k displays just fine. Have literally never even seen it stutter
i literally watched a professional programmers channel using a base air m2 as his daily driver, techtubers like crying too much
Who is the UA-camr?
MacBook Pro 14 & 16: i am a Joke to you?
This is the thing I hate about tech reviewers they say some bad about a certain product when the product is supposed be used for that purpose
They could add a fan in it, but they didn't because if they added that nobody would buy the high variants of MacBook lineup. Other variants have the same M2 chip with fans so those have not any thermal throttling issue.
Give it to me then
Based
For those confused peeps, he meant "It really sucks because the m2 chip is really powerful, but the only way to get the full performance is to get the 13 inch macbook *pro* which also has it's own problem (bulkiness)"
I could use it to study no cap
what’s it’s made for 😂 like these mfers over here testing 4k editing and bulls to rendering software that even windows at 1100 can’t perform. not sure why they don’t understand that
@@awesome4349 exactly lmao
It's a lil pricy for just studying tbh
@@profkosmosic1 but it can do more than just that and if you are already spending $7-900 on a windows then just get a mac for a little more.
@@awesome4349 I have both windows and mac so I can vouch that both are great in their own ways, I was just saying if all they need a laptop for is studying/writing papers/browsing then a 1000 dollar laptop is definitely overkill for something like that.
If M2 Macbook pro got a new design M2 Air wouldn't get so many complaints. The lineup is so disbalanced, just how did Apple screw it up
I don't thing any point of him was correct because I don't thing any of them are making big issue I have macbook air m2 and I didn't experience any of them yes it has slow SSD but it never disappoint you. You can go for it
Tech reviewers when the entry level mac can only handle 4 layers of 4K video at once, despite the fact that the intel MacBook Pro that cost way more could only handle 3
Yeah but it’s quiet and powerful…….quit trying to get people on the wrong side…..
Exactly
Wrong side LUL
Love my MacBook Air m2 256gb, never had an issue with it and I've had it for 2 months. It can even run cool small games like Polytopia without any problems and only minor heating for when I'm bored in class. I've never had it getting warmer other than when I play certain games and it's always just a little bit of heat. It stays stone cold for 99% of the time I'm using it. But I'm not a designer or developer, I'm a translating student I only use word and powerpoint. It's fast too, perfect for multi-tasking.
There’s a 14 day return policy
Why heavy work? It was made for media consumption and office use
"thermal throttles under heavy load"
My brother in christ the MBA was never meant for heavy loads. It's always been an underpowered laptop. The only thing that got better over the years is the battery life and display
It never was underpowered? It was always cropped down because of the Design decisions Apple made.
this worries me because my mbp 2018 throttles and let alone doesnt work at all (worst mbp ever) so if my mbp which is supposed to be able to do heavy work can't and the air which is supposed to be much better than my mbp can't either with m2 chip, then what will actually work? Is the throttle still an issue with new M chips???
Have any of y’all seen how these things are cooled now? The fan just circulates a bit of air like an exhaust fan. The back lid seals areas and forces the air to pass over the cpu. So take care of that back lid. Just removing the lid causes it to thermal throttle.
well I have the 512gb 10 core version and its great and I love it. and I got it in the midnight colour and it does get fingerprints but it doesn't bother me
Is it hot after doing task in few minutes?
I have the same one. The YTer is frustrated with the 256 clearly and the 512 performs very well (two chips versus one)
@@fl4646 no not unless you’re playing a game or something then it can get a bit hot in under an hour. But if you’re just doing tasks on it then it will not get hot.
Not to mention mkbhd said if you miss the ports when plugging things in it can scratch the midnight color off exposing the silver underneath
“Slow” name a faster chip
M1 lol. Or M1 Pro and Max for most cases.
Intel i9 🤷♀️
@@cc_435 There's a 10W i9?
12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KS. ???
If I buy a macbook "air" its for basic use and for a little heavy work
I’m so tired of these reviews. These guys somehow think that everyone buying a MacBook Air is gonna do video editing and shit. Tell me you’re bad at reviewing without telling me.
Then why buy a $1200 machine. You can do basic stuff on a $300 chromebook
I have had the Macbook Air M2 512 for over 2 years and have had not a single problem!
It is good…you just want attentjon
You got the one with fans which allows better performance, and the one without it, fuse the together: schrodinger fan
Nah all they care about is to make more money every year 😅
I use it for editing music videos and it does pretty good. 4k footage, typically just work in an HD sequence. After effects and photoshop and premiere all simultaneously and it does fairly well
Hope the clicks equate to some revenue. Can’t think of another reason for this short
I bought the midnight since it's the only one available. Yes, finger printed and dust collector machine. But definitely powerful and doesn't get hot easily
Who let this guy talk about this at all? Nowadays they just let everyone with 0 knowledge talk.
totally agree i agree some better design couldve been done but like they can’t just fuse them thats not how design or computers works
I use the MacBook Air m2 and m3 and they both are super fast great at gaming and they don’t get that hot.
bought the base model air, amazing computer for the price. doesn’t heat up in normal use. no shit you can’t edit 8k💀
Buying a MacBook Air is like buying a mini and being angry that it isn’t as fast as a Ferrari
They need to resurrect Steve Jobs
😂
If you get base model yes. If not it’s fantastic
The appls simps in the comments haha
The Macbook Air is not meant for heavy work
This is so stupid. I have the M2 MBA with me and I’ve been using it for more than a week. It’s more than fine for average user. I’m happy with it.
Some UA-cams needs to retire.
Mine has never gotten hot!
Just give it fans
Very misleading video
After being an avid apple product avoider for 10 years, (first phone being a Samsung galaxy S1 in 2013 then having Nokias and oppo A72) and finally buying an iPhone 13 mini last year and then buying the m2 mba after my first laptop being a 2015/16 Dell Inspiron 3000 i3 ~2.8kg brick 😤…., I think is a big step up? 😅🤔
The 8gb ram in the dell got me through year 12 and uni so lasted easy 5-6 years and handled 12-25 chrome tabs quite well….
ITS AN AIR, NOT PRO
I do software development on it... Constant compiles, vm's, docker etc.... It's awesome. Amazing hardware, great battery, and produces almost no heat compared to my 16in (x86_64) pro. Can't complain.
What configuration did you get?
why would you buy a macbook air for heavy workflows? the pro was literally designed for resource heavy tasks and 4K video editing? That’s why they gave the pros the fan
lol it is an air for a reason. get a pro and stop complaining
I got it today no complaints so far nothing bad I’ve heard for school work either