Link to band?

Also a student here. I have the base model M2 Air, and it holds up well. I constantly have Notion, Word, an IDE, Safari, and Apple Music up during my work sessions and experience no slow-downs whatsoever.

Although, if you can cough up the extra money to get additional RAM then go for it, it just furthers the future-proofing of your machine.

YMMV

But my 15 Pro back glass cracked, had AC+. Brought it to the Apple Store, they didn’t know how to repair it yet so they just replaced my phone. $29.