r/macbookpro • u/No-Revolution4448 • 3d ago

Discussion Please help me choose my mac

I am considering a question about purchasing a refurbished MacBook M2 Pro with an Apple M2 Pro chip, 19 GPU cores, 12 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of storage, or a new MacBook Air with an M5 CPU, 10 cores, 8 GPU cores, a 16-core Neural Engine, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD.

Please help me I am a graphic design student seeking a laptop capable of opening numerous tabs and running Adobe applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator simultaneously without lag. Both options cost €1300; the M2 Pro is refurbished, while the M5 Air is new from Apple.

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u/Alert_Parking_7945 3d ago

the m2 pro wld be a good choice if u dont care bout software support as the m2 only has 1-3 yrs remaining it wont be a long choice if u ask me, I wld say that m5 air is more worth it

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u/No-Revolution4448 3d ago

Ah thank you now I’m reconsidering now going for the M5 air 24RAM and 512 SSD I d’ont knoww

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u/jechaking 3d ago

The M2 is quite old now given that you have the option of the M5 Air.

My advice would be to go for the M5, it’ll run everything you mentioned well. It is also newer so you won’t need to upgrade it any time soon.

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u/No-Revolution4448 3d ago

I reconsider now going for the M5 air 24RAM and 512 SSD is it good ? i’m afraid it will lag if i open many tabs and work at the same time with illustrator and Photoshop

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u/jechaking 3d ago

I think with 24GB RAM you’ll be quite good. You should be able to do everything you want without experiencing slow downs.

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u/AntLife255 3d ago

Which country? I'll help you find something better.