TeaRat

Which is the best laptop? MBP 14" (M1Pro) vs the MBA M2?

Hi grads: I decided to post under "research" as I am specifically interested in what insights, preferences, and prejudices you may have to offer on the laptop as a research technology. I can't decide whether to get a 15 or 13 inch retina MacBook Pro. (Coming from an old non-retina 15" MBP). I'm seduced by the 13 inch's portability--my laptop has been feeling terribly heavy lately--but fear losing the 15 inch's screen size and all the potential details I might display on it simultaneously in retina. In the course of writing your theses, dissertations, publications, papers, and researching for all of these, how have you balanced the portability/screen real estate tradeoff? I'm especially interested in perspectives of those in the humanities in social sciences (my field straddles these two general areas) and those who are accustomed to juxtaposing and working with multiple texts and word documents as well as internet tabs at once to produce a paper.