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In what situation should I get the MacBook Air over the MacBook Pro ? I currently have the Pro but I am open to getting the Air. (alien.top)
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I really only use my laptop for studying, school work, watching videos of lectures which causes the laptop to heat up pretty hot.

The heating up would be my biggest concern.

I am also on my laptop 10 hours a day for studying.

Would a MacBook Air be okay with these concerns or should I get the Pro ?

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[–] InvestingNerd2020@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The M2 Air with 16GB of RAM can do most things where MacOS isn't blocked. Any social science, history, math, medical studies, journalism, philosophy, English literature are fine to use a Macbook.

College engineering programs that use software that doesn't work on MacOS, Power BI, Azure cloud, c# programming, or heavy-duty GPU tasks are the only limitations.