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by cgufus 2054 days ago
Eehm. What is the actual difference between the MBA M1 and the MBP 13 M1? (except the latter is thicker?) Checked the compareison and didn‘t find anything substantial...
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Fan, likely clock speed. And a different design.
The MBP gets all 8 GPU cores, the MBA gets 7 (but you can upgrade the MBA to get all 8 for effectively $50 with a $200 upgrade to the storage as well). Touchbar and bigger battery. I think those are the only differences
I think also "Studio Microphone Quality" - whatever that means.
That would seem to imply whatever quality it has resembles a studio microphone. It doesn't say 'Quality Studio Microphone' after all.

It reminds me of my recent purchase of an electric shaver. The front of the box proudly proclaimed 'WAHL: The Brand Professionals Use.'

It wasn't until I got home and started opening it that I saw a little bit of fine print on the side of the box: "not to be used in a professional capacity."

13 inch Pro has brighter screen I think, and that is noticable.
On the chip itself the only difference is probably binning
Yeah, that's what I was just looking at. Up to 2 more hours of battery life, TouchBar, and a [slightly?] better microphone is the only difference I can see. Not much price difference either.
Active cooling.