As usual, it is better running Windows 11 virtually on Mac OS (be it on an ARM or Intel-powered system) than it is running it natively, although you'll always want gobs of RAM and the fastest Intel processors for the best experiences. Going to a completely silent system is incredible, with vastly larger amounts of power than ARM-powered notebooks running the ARM version of Windows 11. I regularly edited video interviews on the MBA M1, and did so on previous MBA models with Intel processors, although those models by necessity of being powered by Intel processors, had cooling fans. With the MBA M3, I'll max it out completely I could have gone for the 2TB option as I'm paying it off over 24 months with Apple's credit partner in Australia (Latitude with the Creditline card), and while it was AUD $900 extra to go from 1TB to 2TB, which is an extra AUD $37.50 per month, the cost would have gone from the current $145 per month, to $182.50 per month, and external SSDs have never been cheaper, so I went for the 1TB model.

I tested my M1 MBA (512/16) in Jan 2021, and just upgraded to a M2 MBA(2TB/24), and reran the tests out of curiosity. I have seen claims that the M2 throttles more. Running continuous Cinebench test for 30 mins is a common way of assessing CPU throttling, which is a hot topic on the fanless M1 and M2 MBAs. I am not a great fan of benchmarking, and tend to only do it after getting a new machine, but in real life I would probably not notice a 15% slow down, and will occur very rarely on my machines.Ĭinebench tests the CPU not the GPU and the M2 has 2 extra cores compared to the M1. Because the M2 is faster it did 19 runs in the 30 mins and the M1 did 16, so the x-axes are different. There was a step in temps between runs 11 and 12 on the M2. The average CPU core temp on the M2 was 105C after run1 and 95 after 19. It looks like run#14 on the M2 might have been affected by a background task (TM?) kicking in. I did not take any special measures before testing, only to make sure machine had been idling for some hours before starting and quitting all running processes in the Dock, but not background processes. The M1 was on Big Sur at that time and the M2 is on Ventura. It is still 15% faster after 10 mins, and 9% faster after 30 minutes. The M2 is 15% faster than the M1 after first run. So yes the M2 does throttle more (in this test), but.Ģ.

The M1 throttles by about 10% over 30 minutes.

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