My wife and I went on a short trip where I had to work. I normally use a windows desktop, but couldn’t bring that.
I used her base m1 air, and was blown away by how well it handled my work. Not just that, but it used significantly less ram and cpu power.
On windows my cpu usage is higher and my ram usage normally over 8gb. On here air, I was hitting around 6gb ram usage and the cpu was maybe around 15-20%
I am still in a little disbelieve that her laptop handed my work so much better than my desktop i7-8700 or laptop i5-11th gen intel handles it.
I’m totally picking up a MacBook this fall.
Now just need to decide between the air and pro, the air is probably fine, but I like the dedicated hdmi port as I will use it with a monitor a lot. Not sure if a usb-c hub will suffice.
Just wait until something goes wrong, then you will be very surprised.
You’re being downvoted but it’s true, they are very difficult to repair and non modular so some parts are crazy expensive. Broken display ribbon cable? $20 replacement cable? Nah it’s a whole new hi-res aluminum shell display for you!
But to be fair I don’t expect to be repairing many of the M1 Airs, it’s a very mature design, 10 years of form factor iteration and a small low power logic board. I’ve hardly worked on any of them, though I own one myself. A few abused batteries are starting to need replacing. It’s just the freaking batteries are glued in, so so stupid; not a reliability problem but an extra half hour of work over screws when replacing the battery.
