This meant I could run a comparative test on the M1 MacBook Air to see if the issue was hardware or software related. Thankfully, I’d retained the Final Cut Pro project which had prompted the M2 MacBook Air to wave its white flag last week. You wanted to know if this was just a momentary blip, or whether the base model M2 MacBook Air really is gimped in some way. Knowing myself as well as I do, I’d probably have chalked it down to experience, apologised to my audience for originally suggesting that the base model M2 MacBook Air was as competent as its predecessor, and moved on.īut you wouldn’t let me do that, would you? Oh no, you wanted to see a follow-up test involving the M1 MacBook Air. I can’t really claim credit for this follow-up test. The constant beach-balling, stuttering, and dropped frame warnings made the simple job of adding some b-roll to my latest video impossible. It was that bad, in fact, I had to give up. The M2 MacBook Air failed miserably as soon as I attempted to edit the same 4K Sony footage the M1 version had so easily handled during that fraught October night of content creation in Canada. You’d therefore forgive me for assuming that the successor to that wonderful little laptop would at least match its forefather, pound-for-pound when put through a similar video editing test. It smashed the job with barely a stutter. The only computer I had to hand for this mad-dash production process was my trusty M1 MacBook Air – the base model version with just 8GB of unified memory and seven cores of graphical power. Before heading to a much-needed deep sleep, I needed to shoot, edit, and publish my reaction video to Apple’s latest event. Twelve months earlier, I’d found myself tired, jet-lagged, and desperately sifting through the remnants of Apple’s 2021 MacBook Pro launch in a Montreal hotel. I’ll cut to the chase – the M2 MacBook Air let me down, big time. And it has prompted me to follow up on that disappointing experience today (not least because you lot desperately wanted me to). This might sound rather unadventurous, but for someone who typically carries two MacBooks and an iPad, it was more than a little unnerving – not least because I had some video editing to do while away. Last week, I travelled to London for a couple of days with nothing more than my M2 MacBook Air for tech company.
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