It’s a beautiful screen, no doubt, but simply not wide and tall enough for extended coding sessions. If your only screen is going to be the laptop’s screen, I would not recommend getting the M2 Air. No matter how you want to flip reality here, this is a less than 14” screen, and when it comes to coding, I found that be that WebStorm, VsCode, Xcode or Android Studio, after a couple of hours, the screen size becomes a limitation that only the 16” model can solve, albeit only partially. There is of course a downside to smaller size, and that’s the screen real-estate. I genuinely think software companies should start looking at the M2 Air as a viable machine for many of their software engineers, instead of blanket-buying or leasing the top spec 14” or 16” MacBook Pros.īy far the biggest selling-point of the M2 Air is its size and weight. The other benefit of lightness with the M2 is the fact that now you can pop over to a colleague’s desk, or even just walk around the office with the laptop open, holding it in one hand while explaining some code you wrote, doing a commit, whatever it is, you can do it one-handed. In contrast, picking the M2 Air up and walking anywhere, any distance feels a lot more 2022, as you genuinely don’t feel you’re carrying something. The massive downside of that machine is that lugging it to the office and back feels very 90s. With companies doing their 3-year hardware refresh cycles, I have seen many coders end up with the new 16” M1 Pro/Max. I am aware that working in the office is not as trendy as it used to be, but there are still plenty of engineers who do that, even if just once or twice a week. Many of us software engineers are so used to 15” and 16” machines that it’s almost shocking when we manage to do our work on a smaller and lighter machine, and here I want to focus first on the lightness aspect.

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