And the posted benchmarks for the M2 Macbook Air make me consider 'upgrading' to an Air.
Macbook Airs (way back when) felt sluggish. The MBA M1 changed that, it was "fine". These M2s are unexpectedly responsive on an ongoing basis.
The MacBook Pro M1 Max is great (would be fantastic except they lost a Thunderbolt port in favor of legacy HDMI and memory card jacks), but you expect that machine to be responsive, so it's less surprising.
The Studio Ultra, though, never slows down for anything.
Still, if the Air could drive two external screens instead of one, I'd "downgrade" from the Max.
I've since moved to the M2 air, and it is noticeably faster than M1, but it isn't the huge leap from last gen intel that the M1 was. But the hardware itself feels way better.
* Air built-in display
* 2K display connected via USB-C -> DisplayPort adapter
* Two more 2K displays of same model via DisplayLink connected via USB hub
For all practical means it's almost impossible to see any DisplayLink compression artifacts even in most of games.
PS: Each adapter cost me $40:
Been nervous to dip into it, given the architecture change and last year's challenges with display link docks.
// UPDATE: Oops, looking at the product, I see I should have specified: 4K screens or higher. About half our desks are 2 x 4K, about half 2 x 5K, except the Air M1 folks who are 1 x 5K.
