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.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    The 14” pro is nice, but unless you’re buying an older model at a steep discount the base machines price is just insulting. Get a good USB hub and the air will be great.

    As long as you get a good one that doesn’t overheat its HDMI converter chip you’ll be golden. Ideally buy one that’s just DisplayPort, those have been far more reliable for us at work.