Macbook Air M4 or M5? UX Design
Hello guys, I was thinking on buying a Macbook Air but I’m unsure on what to buy.
I’m a Junior UX Designer & Teaching Assistant so I would mainly use it for Figma and Adobe. I also like to mess around with creative tools and maybe some front end dev. I would also be using Microsoft Office quite a bit.
I was looking for a good long lasting, lightweight option (I travel back and forth to my home country) that wasn’t too expensive but now I’m unsure on what Macbook Air to get.
These are my options:
New Macbook Air M5 13”:
10CPU, 8GPU, 16GB, 512GB SSD
(£999 with education savings discount)
Apple Refurbished Macbook Air M4 13”:
10CPU, 10GPU, 16GB, 512GB SSD
(£849)
Apple Refurbished Macbook Air M4 13”:
10CPU, 10GPU, 24GB, 512GB SSD
(£1019)
What would you guys recommend? I have a bigger and heavier windows laptop that I can also use but Adobe was extremely slow and it’s very heavy so I was thinking on upgrading. I also have an iPhone and an iPad so Macbook made sense because of this too