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I’m impressed by my wife’s m1 air. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Apple silicon Macs are really great when it comes to battery life. If you already use an iPhone it makes so much sense.

I’m still on a 2014 Air. It’s doesn’t work near as good. But still does well enough for me.

There are legitimate complaints against Apple for its iOS/iPad OS AppStore practices, their former hardware upsell practices, their botched AI roll out, and their corporate practices in general. But there really aren’t any legitimate complaints about their hardware, software, or services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Given what a shitty cabal of arseholes Apple has become, it kills me how good my M2 Air is. It's a genuinely incredible bit of hardware.