i’m a senior in college and for the past 3 years i’ve used a 2020 13” inch macbook pro. it was amazing and did everything i needed for university and then some. last year i spilled some water on it and it stopped working completely it made more financial sense to get a new computer than to pay the price they wanted to fix it. so it’s bricked essentially. i got a m2 macbook air as a replacement after hearing such good things about it. it is genuinely the worst machine i’ve ever used and it makes it near imposssible to do do work. nothing loads from webpages to programs and i can’t deal with it anymore. my course load requires using adobe suite and i can’t do that on here reliably. i’m at a crossroad because i spent $1700 on the computer and apple care for 3 years. i’m planning on selling the m2 air and fixing the pro but i’m really stuck and would love some advice. or does it make sense to invest in an m3 a pro as a method of future proofing. any advice would be greatly appreciated
If it's base model 8GB 256GB then there's your problem. Maxtech on Youtube proved beyond doubt the SSD on this model is a problem. That isn't to say it's a bad machine, but you've clearly noticed the limits. A pro with 16GB 512GB+ will serve you well. Even the M1 versions can be found for good prices now.
Your professional opinion here is that there is some YouTuber out there that proved beyond doubt that these brand new M2s with 8GB RAM are incapable of browsing the internet.
I just want to make sure I got that right.