Mid 2012 MBA to maxed out M2: first two days...

My old workhorse mid-2012 MBA was in dire need of replacement and I went all in and got a maxed out 10 core 24GB 2TB M2 in Midnight. Controversial spec perhaps but I wanted something snappy and powerful that could handle having dozens of tabs open, lots of huge PDF docs, Photos, play & edit 4k iPhone movies, plus all the usual day to day computing ****. I travel a lot so lightness is important and I wanted to be able to keep my photos originals and documents on the machine rather than have to be connected to access some of them from iCloud.

I did a fresh install so everything came from the cloud and I only downloaded those apps I need, this avoided transferring 10 years of crap from the old machine.

I love the shape and size, the screen is so bright and crisp, I like the extra vertical real estate and thin bezels. I wanted fanless and don't need extra ports so the 14 MBP was never really contender - its too fat and heavy for my liking.

The one thing I'm on the fence about is the colour. Midnight just looks black most of the time. Now mine isn't scratched and doesn't seem to be picking up any significant finger prints, but its just kind of odd, especially in low light where the keyboard/trakpad area is a bit of a black hole. I'm not going to change the machine but I suspect if I'd waited and had a look in the store I might have chosen space grey.

For a laugh I ran Blackmagic speed test, it came up at about 3500, whereas my old machine was 78! So the M2 runs like lightning to me. Photos app opens instantly, 7000 page pdfs the same, and with a ton of stuff all open its using about 16GB of RAM so I feel there is plenty to spare.

Some pictures attached for interest - the ones I wish I could have seen before I decided, if only to confirm how slim/thin the machine is.

TDLR, went from a slow old dinosaur to a super fast M2 and love it!