The 1000 nits brightness seems to be for XDR (extended dynamic range) content, such as movies. I'm not sure that you are getting more than 500 nits for most of the things (chat, email, stocks) that you are currently doing.
Note that the M4 MacBook Air has a more limited set of ports than any of the 14" M1 {Pro/Max} MacBook Pros – no third USB-C / Thunderbolt port, no HDMI port, no SDXC card slot.
For what you are doing I don’t think you’ll miss much but why not head out to a store and see for yourself? What I missed most when I moved full time into a MBA were the ports, something that isn’t an issue now but was when I was on the road giving presentations. It meant carrying a hub, just an extra little annoyance on my travel day.
Thanks dwb,
Two ports will be plenty. This will be my 'casual' computer. I have and MBP 16 well decked out and an M4 mini with an apple display for my desktop work.
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Macbook Pro to a Mabook Air
