I am a Student. So my budget is allowing me 2 things, mb air m2 base model or m1 with 16gb ram. I plan to upgrade to Macbook pro a year or 2 later if its needed.

I can’t wait as my current laptop has stopped working. I have been using windows for my entire life and this will be my first macbook.

Programming -

I will be using Python, SQL mostly on this laptop. I plan to do Data engineering and basic python development on it, although I don’t think I will be doing too much heavy tasks. I am one of those rare souls that focuses on just 1 thing at a time. So If I am programming I’ll be using browser tabs and an IDE or a code editor. And if I am video editing, only those apps will be open.

Video editing - I won’t be doing too much heavy work here either. I will just be editing some screen recorded videos.

P.S. - I have done a lot of research which suggest m2 is good for both as long as the workload doesn’t get too heavy for example 4K videos etc, docker. Which I won’t be using at least for now.