Wait! Before you buy that speedy new M2 MacBook Pro, you might want to save yourself a thousand dollars or so.
NEW MacBook Air 13 can charge itself! 😂
The number of people who need the power of Apple’s latest MacBook Pros is pretty small. But there are other reasons to pick the pro machine over the M2 MacBook Air. One is the big, beautiful screen on the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros. The other is the range of built-in ports. If expansion down the road is your biggest need, you could instead grab a purpose-built MacBook Air hub, like this Pro Hub Slim from Satechi , which also adds everything else we need.
“I believe almost every computer, except Macs and the Dell XPS line, still comes with USB-A. Every peripheral I've purchased in the last few years has had a USB-A cable,” Mac user and enthusiast v0lume4 said in a MacRumors forum thread.
The MacBook Pros get three Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI port, and an SD card slot. Air users, meanwhile, have to make do with a pair of Thunderbolt/USB-C ports, though the new M2 model at least gets a nice MagSafe power port, which frees up one of those USB-C ports for other uses.
