Upgrading soon, shopping around

[serene oriole]

Guys im in the market for a new MacBook to replace my 2010 MacBook Pro. Gonna be for every day use (browsing, typing documents, some light photo and video editing). What would you recommend?

[tough basalt]

MacBook Air

Whether it be M1, M2 or M3

Any modern Air will do those tasks just fine

[zenith girder]

Yeah MacBook Air is the best choice.

[serene oriole]

I heard M1 is susceptible to flexgate issues

Right now im eyeing the m2 macbook pro, with 16 GB of ram and a 256 GB SSD. im also eyeing an M1 Pro MacBook Pro

[graceful ore]

The M1 Pro MacBook Pro is better than the M2. Unless you're looking at an M2 Pro or even M3 Pro.

[serene oriole]

Nah I don’t need that much power

My preference is the M1 Pro but I’m ok with the M2 MacBook Air if the price is too high

[graceful ore]

The M2 MacBook Air should be pretty good. I'd recommend getting 16GB of RAM at minimum.

If you tend to store some stuff locally, look at getting a model with 512GB SSD or higher.

[serene oriole]

I have 2 TB in iCloud storage plus a 1 TB external drive so I could keep stuff in either place

[tough basalt]

This is the first I’ve heard anything like this

[graceful ore]

Generally speaking, anything that has an Apple M1 chip or newer should do the job just fine, as long as you get 16GB of RAM or higher. Avoid any of the Intel Macs though, those are getting dated and likely won't get updates for much longer.

[graceful ore]

Yeah, none of my apple silicon MacBooks have had this issue, it's mainly 2016-2020 Intel models.

[tough basalt]

I’d blame an Intel MacBook Air before an M1 for sure

My Intel MacBook Pro bent

Heat can do that, and the M1 doesn’t produce much

[graceful ore]

yeah there was a lot of issues with the 2016-2020 Intel Macs

the people having this issue on their M1 or later MacBook either got a defective unit or don't take good care of their MacBooks

[tough basalt]

Exactly

[graceful ore]

or it was badly repaired

I've even seen a 2018 MacBook Air stop working because the CPU kept getting too hot

don't even get me started on their butterfly keyboards... those were not great to type on

and there were also more reports of failures

I think the Windows laptop scene was thriving during 2016-2020, even for professionals

that or people bought a 2015 MacBook Pro

or kept their old MacBook until the M1

the 2016-2020 MacBooks were terrible

The 2019 Mac Pro and the iMacs were okay though

but people were avoiding Apple's laptops like crazy until the M1 came out

the design was just too thin for the older Intel Macs