MacBook Air M1 16/512 or Pro M1 16/256?

Question

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Help me solve my headache, I just can’t decide: take Air M1 with 16 GB of RAM for 512 GB or take Pro with the same 16 GB but 256 GB?

Will Air get warm? I will use, most often, in the browser (usually you need 4-6 open tabs, of which half are Google services - tables, documents), telegrams, music in spotify, text editors sometimes, watching movies / videos. Zoom calls several times a week. Sometimes some kind of Logic Pro or Ableton (but rarely).
I want to buy a laptop with the expectation of using it for the next 5+ years.
What would I choose in my place: less memory, but a laptop with active cooling, or enough air without cooling, but there will be more memory?

I don't edit video, for PS games
UPD.: Perhaps an important note: I spend 8 hours a day on a laptop

Answer 1

If this is an office version of the type of Internet / tablets, then AIR is enough for the eye.
If you need something more serious, take Proshka
. In any case, it’s not enough for me that 256 is 512 ... I have 5tb current of my information, not counting the working one ... something like this)

Answer 2

1) Air is enough for you.
2) judging by the question, 256 is enough for you.
well, take Air 16/256. for the difference from 512, you can buy an external terabyte SSD and have a good coffee with cakes.
I have had one since April - the flight is not something that is normal - it is awesome. area of ​​​​use - all everyday life plus iOS development.
PS / in fact, if you take not admiring the numbers in the tests, but real sensations, the difference between last year's Air and Pro on the M1 is only taste and ideology - what do you like more - "touchbar strip" or F-keys, do you like the body more - tile or body-wedge. come to the store, feel and buy what you like best.

Answer 3

Take Air, I have Air M1 and the firmware is already a new 16 inch on M1 pro.
Eir is just super light, thin, it’s like a tablet with a keyboard only with full-fledged software, I always have it with me, even when I go to the store for bread, I don’t pull it out of my backpack.
MacBook Air M1 16/512 drags with a bang and 4k movies and an external 5k monitor and several browsers with a bunch of tabs and at the same time with a development environment. Even 4k videos can be mounted on it, some kind of tangible throttling will probably begin only after 10 minutes of continuous 100% load, but such loads are difficult to achieve even with compilations, probably only video rendering can eat all the resources.