Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “M2 MacBook Air 1 Month Later – Productive Day In The Life”.
Yo, what’s up guys victor kamanga here with another everything technology, video and today, i’m gon na. Take you throughout my day as i talk about the brand new m2 macbook air. I know a lot of you guys are curious on how it performs on a day-to-day. As far as like the battery life and just performance, so today, i’m gon na take you throughout my day and we’re gon na see how the empty macbook air handles.
So i’m definitely starting the day off a little bit later than i expected. However, i’m still going to get the same amount of work done. I have a shoot at like 2 p.m.
Anyway, let’s talk about the price tag of the m2 macbook air, because i know a lot of people are like. Is this even worth it? At 1? 1200? Is it that much better than you know the m1 macbook air that we got a few years back? Honestly speaking, it’s probably not worth it, especially if you’re trying to upgrade from an m1 macbook air or any m1 machine. But if you are just wanting to get a macbook air for the first time, it may just be worth getting the empty macbook air, even though it’s like 200, more than the current m1 macbook air, and it is sitting at such an awkward price point.
Considering that the 14 inch base model macbook pro goes for like 2 000, so yeah throughout this day, i’m gon na. Let you know if it is really worth that price tag, because it is a little bit expensive for a macbook air and it’s not that much different. You are getting a bigger display, you’re getting a notch this year and it looks just like the m1 macbook pros or the m1 pro macbook pros um.
So i do like the new design change, but aside from that, it’s gon na be really hard for me to probably recommend it to somebody who already has an m1 machine, so yeah we’ll see how i feel about it. Okay, as i’m finishing up some breakfast and looking for airbnbs miles, and i are actually planning on going to charlotte tomorrow and staying for the night if you’re in the charlotte area, let me know down in the comment section but anyway, let’s talk about the design of This laptop, as i mentioned earlier, it has these rounded sides and it looks very similar to the new macbook pros. Um. The only difference is it’s a lot thinner like watch like it is a lot lot thinner and it’s 2.7 pounds which i believe is 1.1 pounds lighter than the m1 macbook air that we got a few years back um.
Now we have max safe 2.0. I think it’s max 82, it’s nice, two usb c ports on one side of the laptop headphone jack is still here and as far as anything else around the device, it’s pretty much a macbook looks just like all the other macbooks. You have the apple logo. Back here i have to say this new colorway looks super clean um.
Sometimes it gives me like this dark blue vibe, depending on the lighting condition. Right now it looks more gray than black, but if i go outside it almost looks like blue, it might be partly because of the clouds or the sun. I don’t know it just looks very different in different lighting conditions, but i have to say this is definitely my favorite colorway. So we just finished eating our brunch.
I’M getting ready to head over to a shoot for this high school, which shouldn’t take too long, and then i’m going to go ahead and head over to this co-working space and get some work done on the new m2 macbook air. So i just got done with my shoot um. I have to go back at some point just because they didn’t really have all their plans properly, which is typically what happens with client shoots, but we made it to this co-working space. I’M gon na go ahead and get some work done on the laptop.
I have a few scripts that i need to type up which scripting is like the worst part of the process. When it comes to content creation, however, it makes my life a lot easier when it comes to just editing and everything else that requires some kind of production work as i’m typing, something that i thought about is just the keyboard. Since i know a lot of you guys who are picking up this laptop, we’re gon na be doing a ton of typing and apple is known to have probably some of the best keyboards on any laptop aside from their previous generation of laptops that had super super Shitty keyboards and if literally anything, got stuck under it, it was unusable, which was very unfortunate, but that’s not the case anymore. The key travel is great feels very tactile. I haven’t had any issues with it. I can type considerably fast on here.
I’M not going to do a typing test because i’m definitely not the fastest typer and as far as a trackpad, it’s what you would expect from a macbook. It’S amazing, it’s reliable, very, very, very accurate, unlike windows, laptops, but at the same time, if you spend 1200 on the laptop it better, be that good. It better be like that, so i’m gon na go ahead and finish the script, but i’m gon na be straight up with you guys. This is so damn boring.
I literally have to go back to the shoot, because i have to be there at five o’clock. Luckily, they’re, like 10 minutes away from here, i’m sure some of you guys are considering picking this up for for something more creative outside of just like. You know typical work, especially if you’re dropping 1200 on laptop. You should not drop 1200 on a laptop if you’re just going to use it to like type stuff up.
Please just don’t do that. It’S not worth it, but i’m gon na leave miles here. As he’s getting some stuff done.
I’M gon na see you later bro. [ Applause, ], okay, so the shoot went really well um. I was essentially grabbing some b-roll shots for a friend. He has a project with a local private high school, and i was just grabbing literally um volleyball shots of these high schoolers playing, which was pretty cool, since i don’t think i’ve actually ever been to a volleyball game. That probably was my first one, at least like a you know, a real one.
You know i played with friends and stuff at the beach, but not an actual, like team versus another team. So fun fact i actually bought this house is going to be a rental property and i’m currently the process of renovating it. So disregard any weird things going around me like a bunch of tools back there, but i want to actually install some smart switches that a few manufacturers sent me. So i’m going to replace these old annoying sounding um switches into these wi-fi enabled ones.
But what i’m going to do is i’m going to use this macbook to watch a bunch of tutorial videos to figure out exactly how i’m going to do this, because i am not an electrician but um yeah. Let’S try to figure this one out and something that i do want to talk about is mad safe. So this year you get max a 2.0 with the macbook air, which is very much appreciated and what i really like about mac safe. I actually have one right here is the fact that it just snaps hold up. Where is it at there? We go it just snaps and charges and if you accidentally knock it over, it’s not going to like pull the laptop, and you know it’s not going to break so that’s the reason. People really appreciate that safe and the new wall plug has like two usb c ports, which is nice.
I feel like that, should have always been the standard, with the plugs that apple had included in boxes. It’S just a little bit convenient because you could only you could also charge your phone as well as charge your laptop at the same time. But let’s see if i could find some videos real, quick and figure out how to install these smart plugs because or smart switches, because i don’t really know what i’m doing and it’s probably not really that complicated, because i’ve installed a smart plug before so i’m hoping It’S just as easy because i may just have somebody else do this, because i’m not trying to get shocked.
So it looks like i’m taking an l today, because i could not figure this out. This switch has like a bunch of wires and there’s only two in my um that’s coming out the wall, i’m missing a ground wire, apparently because i’m watching a bunch of youtube videos and i’m missing a lot of different wires. And that’s because this house is very old, it was built in the 40s.
So at some point i’m gon na have to get a bunch of um electrical work done because not having a ground wire apparently is very sketchy. So i’m gon na have an electrician figure that one out, but for now let’s talk about the performance of the new m2 macbook air and it’s amazing just like last year’s or the m1 macbook air, it’s just as good super snappy, honestly there’s not a huge gap As far as performance, i will say when it comes to video editing, i have noticed a slight difference. It’S a little smoother with handling um 4k footage and i’ve even put a little bit of some black magic footage here on my timeline, which was shot at 4k. 60Fps and did a pretty good job at that.
I will say when it comes to anything graphic intensive. It does not do the best job and that’s purely because there is no fan on this machine. So once it starts to heat up, it is going to throttle which is unfortunate, but that shouldn’t be a huge issue for most people who are looking for a macbook air, because you’re not gon na, do something super crazy, intensive unless you’re gon na be doing some Coding and you’re not gon na, be doing a lot of editing, but for most video editing, this will get the job done with like a seven. Three footage.
4K footage. It’S gon na do the job. However, when it comes to throwing a bunch of graphics in the timeline, it’s just it’s just not it um. Something else that i haven’t really gotten to talk didn’t really talk about.
Is the webcam. Let me go ahead and pull it up here. Let’S start recording. Okay, we are now recording on the webcam, and it’s now 1080p, which should be pretty great for zoom calls it’s definitely not the best webcam. I still don’t understand why apple can’t put a cell phone sensor on here with this big ass notch. I am sorry to cuss, but seriously. This is a really big notch and that’s lacking in camera quality, because literally the front facing camera on the iphone is 10 times better, but i don’t get it, maybe because it’s super thin here we’re in 2022. I feel like at this point.
They should be able to figure this out and i guess they can’t. I don’t know why. But aside from that, let’s switch back to this camera thanks for watching this day in the life video, this was probably a pretty busy day and pretty stressful. At the same time, this did not help this added a little bit to the stress um, but with that said, i’m gon na go back into editing on this laptop, get a video done and go ahead and get it up on youtube, because i also have this Video that i’m currently shooting that i need to edit anyway.
Thank you so much for watching this video hope you enjoyed it. This has been victor kamanga with another everything technology video. I look forward to seeing all of you in the next one be sure to comment. Hashtag m2 air is overpriced if you’re still watching this baby tell me .