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M2 MacBook Air: Can It Power A Professional Studio? M2 vs M1 Max for Mixing & Mastering

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Testing the M2 MacBook Air to see if it can meet my needs as a professional audio engineer and power my studio as the main computer. I also compare it with my 16โ€ณ M1 Max MacBook Pro for their performances on amp sims, mixing plugins, project loading speed, CPU usage and RAM usage.

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โฐ Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:17 M2 MacBook Air Specs/Configurations
00:33 16โ€ณ M1 Max MacBook Pro Specs/Configurations
01:07 My overall experience after 2 months of using the M2 MacBook Air
01:40 Plugin compatibility for Apple Silicon systems
02:03 M2 MacBook Air vs M1 Max MacBook Pro: Build
02:42 Connectivity options
03:00 Testing starts. Some considerations about the tests
03:27 M2 vs M1 Max amp sim test in Logic: Overloud TH-U
04:04 M2 vs M1 Max amp sim test in Logic:โ€ฆ