MacBook Air M2 review for Coding! (Back to School Deal)

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Résumé

TLDRThe video reviews the MacBook Air M2's benefits and drawbacks over the M1, aiming at a student audience considering educational discounts. The M2 features a MagSafe charging port, a slightly larger display, and improved CPU and GPU performance. However, its SSD speed has been reduced, impacting multitasking capabilities when swap memory is significantly used. While the M2 can perform better in gaming and some applications, for most academic purposes, the MacBook Air M1 still provides excellent value, especially when discounted. Students are advised to consider their specific needs, with M1 being adequate for most users unless newer features are required. Additionally, the video explores the benefits of using a VPN and setting up a Mac environment for software development compared to Windows.

A retenir

  • 💻 MacBook Air M2 comes with MagSafe charging and a larger screen for improved usability.
  • 🔋 M2's battery life remains similar to M1 with up to 18 hours of video playback.
  • 🖥️ The M2 can handle most tasks but may slow down with extreme multitasking due to slower SSD speeds.
  • 🎮 For gaming, M2 offers about 50% better frame rates compared to the M1.
  • 🏷️ Educational discounts make the M2 potentially cheaper than non-discounted M1 versions.
  • ⚡ M2's CPU and GPU improvements offer a 20-40% performance increase.
  • 🎥 M2 renders videos faster than the M1, saving time for creators.
  • 🔍 SSD in M2 is slower, affecting swap memory usage in heavy apps.
  • 🌍 VPNs like Surfshark enhance internet security and allow access to varying regional content.
  • 🖥️ A Mac environment is described as more efficient for software development compared to Windows.
  • 🛒 It might be wiser for students to choose M1 unless M2's specific upgrades are necessary.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The narrator recently purchased a MacBook Air M2 at a discounted price through a student and back-to-school deal, making it cheaper than the MacBook Air M1. The narrator has been a fan of the M1 chip, having used it extensively for video editing, coding, and app development. They are now exploring whether the newer M2 model is a worthy purchase for students, considering its costs in India and the US, compared to the M1 model. The video will discuss the benefits and discounts associated with purchasing through educational deals, which can include significant cost reductions and additional perks like gift cards or AirPods in different regions.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:30

    The narrator highlights several benefits of the MacBook Air M2, including MagSafe charging, a slightly larger screen, improved gaming capability, and the upgraded webcam. However, they note some downsides, such as the slower SSD speed compared to the M1, which affects performance when using swap memory. They also emphasize the convenience of setting up a coding environment quickly on a Mac due to its Unix-based system. The video concludes that while the M2 has some advantages, the M1 MacBook Air is still highly capable and cost-effective for students, offering nearly similar performance for most tasks. Upgrading to the M2 may primarily benefit users needing slight improvements in gaming or specific performance enhancements.

Carte mentale

Vidéo Q&R

  • How does the performance of MacBook Air M2 compare to M1?

    The M2 offers better performance, a bigger screen, and additional features like MagSafe but may face RAM limitations when multitasking heavily.

  • Is it worth buying MacBook Air M2 over M1 with student discounts?

    Yes, it may be worth it for students if they can benefit from the performance enhancements and utilize the educational discounts offered.

  • What new features come with the MacBook Air M2?

    The M2 has improved CPU and GPU performance, MagSafe charging port, and a larger screen.

  • Is the SSD speed better on the M2 compared to the M1?

    No, the SSD speed is actually slower on the M2, which can impact performance when using swap memory.

  • Is MacBook Air M1 still a good purchase for students?

    The MacBook Air M1 still provides excellent performance for everyday tasks, coding, and video editing, making it a strong contender against the M2.

  • Can the MacBook Air M2 support multiple external monitors?

    Users can only connect one additional external monitor, similar to previous models.

  • Under what circumstances should someone upgrade to the MacBook Air M2?

    It's beneficial if you play games, conduct heavy video editing, or need MagSafe and a slightly larger screen. Otherwise, the M1 suffices for general use.

  • How does daily performance differ between the MacBook Air M1 and M2?

    Both the M1 and M2 perform similarly for everyday tasks and apps, with M2 having slight advantages in specific areas like gaming and faster processing for some tasks.

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    so hello everyone i recently bought
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    macbook air m2 two weeks ago on a
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    student discount not just on a student
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    discount but on a back to school deal
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    just a year mojave i bought it for even
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    cheaper than macbook air m1 we'll talk
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    about the discount and deans later but
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    before i really want to share i am a big
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    fan of m1 chip i used macbook air m1 for
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    more than one year and i edit edited
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    more than 150 videos did coding made
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    android apps and i did a lot of stuff on
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    that cheapest possible macbook air and i
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    was very happy with it now after
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    upgrading to macbook air m2 what do you
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    think students should spend one lakh 20
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    000 rupees in india yeah after 200 more
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    in us or you should still go for macbook
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    air m1 let's talk about in this video so
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    let's get started
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    [Music]
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    so first of all talking about the
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    student discount if you buy any kind of
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    macbook air irrespective cheapest or
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    this m2 macbook air if you go to the
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    apple webpage on a student discount page
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    on education discount page you will see
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    that it's first of all hundred dollars
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    cheaper and on the top you will see that
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    if you buy it you're eligible for up to
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    150 gift card for for macbook air m2 i
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    got 150 gift card you might be getting
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    the same for macbook air m1 as well so
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    total muji per day for this macbook
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    around 12 hundred dollars after taxes
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    and i got 150 gift cards so it costed me
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    1050 because i can use that gift card
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    immediately for final cut pro which is
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    dollars or you can pay for your
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    subscriptions on your apple account of
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    course you can see your gift card you
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    can do anything with your gift card but
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    this problem in india they don't give
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    you a gift card they give you either
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    airpods three or discount on airpods pro
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    so if you buy a bundle up for first of
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    all milliga 10 000 rupees discount on
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    your macbook air m1 or m2 or kasaji will
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    be given an opportunity to get
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    airpods pro or airpods 3 on a great deal
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    so it could be a good combo but i
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    personally like the gift card because
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    that's like real money in your hand
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    gives you the flexibility to buy
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    anything you want to and because of this
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    discount people might go for macbook air
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    m2 easily because it could be cheaper
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    than macbook air m1 without discount
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    discount music ignore though if you
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    ignore the discount on m1 and just think
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    about discount on m2 you will think it's
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    cheaper than m1 but the discount is
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    valid for both the macbooks you can go
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    for any any macbook regardless for the
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    discount focus
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    yeah it feels more like it feels like
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    it's lighter but it's not
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    now number one benefit of getting
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    macbook air m2 is you get a mag safe
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    port because of that you get one port
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    free joe macbook airbag if you're using
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    one port for charging then you will be
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    left with only one port that wasn't a
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    problem for me because this macbook
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    charges really fast i have a fast
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    charger it charges in one hour to one
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    and a half hours with the fast charger
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    and i still had both the ports free in
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    my previous macbook air as well so it's
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    like a minor benefit if you want to
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    charge and use two ports and apple
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    stickers also make a camouflaging effect
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    they are like 100 matching with this
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    matte color but it's very figure
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    fingerprint magnetic though
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    it has more fingerprints i've ever seen
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    on my macbook air m1
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    number three benefit bigger screens the
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    java code carrier it has 0.3 inch bigger
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    screen diagonally so you can see more
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    code when you're scrolling it's just
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    minor difference but it does make a
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    difference while you're programming just
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    a little bit now we're talking about
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    performance difference coffee logo nice
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    by minecraft the killua people are able
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    to play minecraft on this computer on
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    this macbook and m2 with 50
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    more smoother performance frame rates
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    as compared to macbook air m1 which is
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    amazing and agar apko gaming
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    for gaming it is now possible to play
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    games on macbook m1 and m2 both but on
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    m2 even bigger around 50 40 to 50 better
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    performance but to be honest that
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    performance might be on the most
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    expensive version of macbook and m2 but
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    still you will see around 20 improvement
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    on this variant because this cheapest
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    man mover m2 i have bought or
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    gaming
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    it is really important to be secure on
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    the internet if you want to play
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    multiplayer games on the internet which
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    you can do on macbook and m2 remember to
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    use a vpn and currently my favorite vpn
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    is surf shark just get through you can
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    be secure on the internet no internet
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    provider can steal your data they cannot
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    see your browsing history they cannot
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    see who are you talking to no one can
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    steal your data and you will be secured
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    and merely another benefit of using a
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    vpn is that i can watch multiple
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    libraries of netflix amazon prime and
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    most importantly z5 and hot star which
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    is cheaper in india but i can get it at
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    the same rate in india in the us a very
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    bad difference without that 500 rupees
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    for z5 in india you can get the same
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    price in u.s which is 50
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    if you don't use a vpn so definitely try
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    out and if you will use my code singing
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    usa you will get first of all three
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    months free of this vpn on the top of 83
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    percent of discount it's a limited offer
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    definitely tried out with the link in
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    the description below now continuing
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    with the performance i get the point
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    it's faster cpu is 20 to 40 faster gpu
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    is 20 to 40 faster but it's slower as
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    well ssd speed is down by up to 50
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    percent when it could transfer their
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    credit i tried to transfer some files to
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    ssd read and write it was taking four
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    minutes on m2 and two to three minutes
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    on m1 so it is a little bit slower and
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    because of this there's one more
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    disadvantage you will get so for example
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    i told you in my previous videos that
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    even though universities like georgia
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    tech and top schools require you to have
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    16 gb ram and i always used 8 gb ram i
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    was happy with 8gb ram on m1 do you know
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    why because m1 air m2 air or m2 chip m1
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    chip they come with swap memory so
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    currently 7.3 gb is full and 2.7 is swap
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    memory so we are using more than 8 gb
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    memory with final cut pro
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    android studio and just google chrome
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    itself
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    here let's say that i have 8gb ram and i
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    am full with that ram i use all of that
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    ram now since it's a unified memory a
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    key chip in one chip you have ram ssd
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    everything together now the ssd can be
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    used as ram so 8 gb is not limiting you
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    but it's giving you advantage because of
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    unified memory so it's a great
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    architecture
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    but because read and write speed is slow
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    so agar up technically if you use 8gb
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    ram and now if you want to use swap
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    memory and use ssd you will see the
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    performance difference and i did see as
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    well prove that i opened android studio
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    final cut pro and xcode all three apps
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    and when i was rendering i could see
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    that the ram is full
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    and the laptop is really really slow so
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    this is the point when the macbook m2
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    lags so now i have oh it is slow see up
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    children so it is sometimes slow and at
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    this point i have so many things open i
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    have final cut pro i have oh it's slow
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    again come on hold on
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    come on come on
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    yes it is slow but it's
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    not that bad final cut pro android
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    studio chrome xcode
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    and xcode simulator android studio
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    simulator so many things open and this
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    video is also rendering on the side even
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    then it can handle but i feel sometimes
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    that it's slower than m1 air in ssd
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    speed and i didn't see any crashes
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    frequently on m1 air but in the first
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    week i could see that i can
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    kill this macbook air in terms of ram if
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    i push it you can see that it's getting
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    hard the mouse becomes irresponsive but
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    it's only possible if you open too many
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    apps and if you want to read and write
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    too much data into ssd one more problem
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    that you can use maximum one additional
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    monitor so that's why one wide monitor
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    is recommended otherwise if you want to
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    have another vertical monitor for coding
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    not possible but
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    overall in terms of
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    everyday life in terms of programming i
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    don't think you will see any difference
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    similar battery life as before 18 hours
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    of video playback 10 to 12 hours rose
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    because you will not feel like charging
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    and it's so light it's even lighter than
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    before and now the webcam is 1080p but
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    not magically better than before and
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    it's so easy to carry but i personally
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    love to use both macbooks now i'm gonna
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    keep both macbook air m2 and macbook m1
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    pro because i get the flexibility if i'm
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    taking my office laptop i can take the
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    lighter laptop if i'm not taking my
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    office laptop for a trip i can take my
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    heavier macbook m1 pro in my last video
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    i reviewed a 10 000 rupee laptop after
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    switching to macbook and m2 which
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    immediately coffee differences feel away
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    to explain that i want to share the
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    advantages you get by using mac os
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    versus windows number one key up
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    environment you can set up the
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    environment for coding immediately step
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    one download get timeout terminal get
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    and you will have git immediately step
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    two get visual studio code for python
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    java web development and all kind of
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    development all kind of assignments you
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    just need one app visual studio code and
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    you're all set you just add the plugins
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    and you're set in one hour step three
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    download a cloud storage like icloud
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    dropbox google drive so your coding
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    files are in that folder even if you
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    lose your laptop your files will be in
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    the cloud step four macbook may auto
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    maximize tool line so if you want to
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    maximize on the side and on on the top
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    so just drag and drop
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    naturally macbook
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    but after downloading it but after
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    downloading better touch tool you can
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    maximize it so you should steps
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    you are ready with the development
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    environment for for your
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    coding for your projects really faster
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    as compared to windows i i think you key
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    macbook these are the faster open only
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    maybe within one second like that so
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    because of that i was able to you know
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    set up the environment around one hour
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    faster on macbook the coffee difference
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    if you're using macbook versus windows
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    so you may be bobber advantage and
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    because of that advantage i feel like
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    macbook is worth it because you can set
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    up your environment quickly it is unix
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    based because of unix based android
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    studio is two to three times faster than
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    windows because android is unix based
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    mac os is unix based so unix unix qk
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    closer related operating systems to
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    development faster it's faster
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    development experience on unix specs for
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    android apps all the units unix-based
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    apps so that's why this whole ecosystem
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    makes it worth it every android
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    developer i know uses macbook every ios
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    developer can only use a macbook so
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    these small small things makes your
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    whole experience much better so that's
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    why it's kind of worth it and in terms
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    of my experience in terms of gpu like
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    agar app video render if you're
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    exporting a video i was really happy
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    with macbook air m1 it used to export my
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    videos in three minutes for 1080p video
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    and this can do it in two and a half
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    minutes so it's it's really amazing for
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    me to see that minor minor jumps and it
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    is not really important for me so for a
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    student like you i will still say go
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    with the m1 macbook air because it can
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    do everything what this macbook can do
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    and i have also used it for more than
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    one year for 150 videos for coding
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    everything you want you can do easily on
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    macbook air everyone the only reason to
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    upgrade to this is
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    that you can play games with more frame
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    rate you can have little bit jump in
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    performance like save 30 to 1 minute in
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    video rendering 30 seconds in android
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    studio project building 30 seconds up to
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    30 seconds so if you upgrade you can
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    save little bit of time but that time is
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    very negligible according to me so
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    that's why i'll recommend all the
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    students to go with macro gear m1
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    otherwise go with even a windows laptop
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    i reviewed in the last video it was
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    worth it as well so thank you so much
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    for watching and i'll see you guys in
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    the next one goodbye
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    [Music]
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