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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. There’s a big sale on M1 and M2 MacBooks happening right nowįirst, if you get a MacBook Pro 13-inch, its M2 chip comes with a 10-core GPU standard. Fitbit Versa 3ĩ Apple products we’re expecting in 2023: iPhone 15, M2 Mac Pro, and more
