At which point you might as well have gotten the Mac mini (although at least you’d have two screens to work on). With that in mind you might be thinking that the Air would be the obvious choice, but a 13in display may not be big enough and you may well end up plugging your laptop into a second display. Apple also improved the display, which is now a Liquid Retina, brightness also increased from 400nits to 500nits. The M2 MacBook Air benefitted from a redesign than enabled Apple to increase the screen size, but that’s not all it did. Note that there are multiple options for the Mac mini thanks to that remaining Intel model.īelow we will look in more detail at each of the components inside these similar but very different machines. That’s a very broad overview, but it should give you an idea of what is the same and what is different. Up to 15 hours wireless web, 18 hours Apple TV playback (52.6‑watt‑hour lithium‑polymer battery) Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and MagSafe port for chargingģ Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.0, SDXC card slot HDMI 2.0 port supports multichannel audio output, 3.5mm headphone jack Stereo speakers, three microphones, 3.5mm headphone jack Intel UHD Graphics 630 and support for Thunderbolt 3-enabled eGPUsĢ56GB or 512GB SSD, configurable to 2TB SSDġ4- or 16-core (M1 Pro), 24- or 32-core (M1 Max)ġ6-core (M1 Pro), 24- or 32-core (M1 Max)ĨGB of 2666MHz RAM, configurable to 16GB, 32GB or 64GB RAMįour-speaker sound system, support for Spatial Audio, 3.5 mm headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones M1 Chip with 8‑Core CPU and 8‑Core GPU or Intel 3.0GHz 6‑core 8th‑gen Intel Core i5

M2 Chip with 8‑Core CPU and 8‑Core GPU or M2 Chip with 8‑Core CPU and 10‑Core GPU M1 model is Silver, Intel model is Space Grey Silver, Space Grey, Starlight (Gold), Midnight (Blue/Black) None (supports up to two 4K separate displays, or three if you buy the remaining Intel model) The MacBook Air, on the other hand, now has an M2 option. Both offer an M1 chip, but the Mac mini has more graphics cores than the M1 MacBook Air. At the entry level the specs of the Mac mini and MacBook Air are similar.

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