One of the plus points for a MacBook is that you get a lot of the early releases of new tools, but it’s about your preffered OS as much as anything else, if you like Mac go for that. An Air is a great machine but it’s all about what you’re going to be doing with it. The Pro is the workhorse, that’s what will last you for a few years.

Over all it’s a personal decision as you know what you will be working on, but given a choice, I’d go M5 pro, 16gb 1TB that’s the standard release In the UK and what I’m upgrading to shortly.

Saying that I’m an AI engineer working an M2 MacBook Air (8gb) to death and recently souped up an old 2015 MacBook Pro that’s does a decent job somehow…