In a similar situation! I got the 512gb 10-core model refurbished paid 815. Windows is still good for lots of things but Mac takes the cake for day to day use.

Read some stuff lol. MacBooks have excellent memory management, and they use swap memory. This is fine as long as your SSD is fast enough and you don’t tax you system with extreme graphics or video editing often. Since I got the 10-core GPU and 512 ssd that means my SSD is twice the speed of the 256 spec which is already fine. This laptop is perfect for me lol. It’s not worth spending on the extra ram AND storage at that +$200 upcharge if you almost never push your system to 100%, And 10-core m2 SoC can do literally everything minus hardcore video editing etc. It’s fine bud.

So there’s a red box in the image. Read the number contained within it and the corresponding text on the left side.

Bro relax. He said it’s more than most people need. Of course m2 is better. Besides the fact that it throttles under poor thermal conditions on the air, but it doesn’t pose a problem normally. Ifs better. Calm down.

Me as well, being that I work for Best Buy lol. It truly is a very well-managed company.

my return on price match period extends through that event on the 30th. If anything changes I can still adjust or if the price drops I can get the difference paid to me.

Best Buy. I had a ton of offers and points kicking around, but the certified geek squad refurbished models are devoid of defects and battery health equal to new, with the same 1 year warranty honored by Apple themselves. Sweet deals.

still a great machine though!!

Best buy had it for 1200 and I got some gift cards and offers

Just to repeat what everyone else is saying, WAIT FOR THE 30TH IF POSSIBLE! We can EXPECT pro and maybe even iMacs, but other stuff including new Airs could smack the price of that one down, or even compel you to go with a possible new option. Id wait it out unless you find an AMAZING deal. If nothing changes afterwards, go with the 512gb storage, no question. Here’s why.

Coding and general multitasking is going to be FINE for quite a while with 8gb ram, Macbooks are highly ram efficient. The fact that the m2 Macbooks with 256gb SSDs are half the speed of their 512gb+ counterparts is not highly efficient (lol). Essentially, 256gb m2 Macbooks use a different SSD than their 512gb, 1tb, and 2tb counterparts. The low spec 256gb version happens to be quite literally twice as slow.
Not only is 8gb likely going to be fine, but even if it’s not (which I don’t expect to be the case), Macbooks use memory swap, meaning they borrow ssd space to use when they run low on unified memory. With the 512, your SSD available for mem swap is twice as fast, leading to faster memory performance as well as just better read/write speeds. Unless you read this and disagree, go 512.

Me as well actually. Was going to get m2 air 13" 10 core 512gb for 800 after tax with a deal. I bought it anyways because the retailer does 15 days of return and price match so I get to use it but also price match or return if the Apple event changes anything.

With only a couple days left till’ that event, I’d just wait tbh, unless you got a ‘PULL THE TRIGGER NOW’ deal like I did, in which case, yeah.