MacBook Air M1 is the best purchase I have ever made
Been a windows guy all my life. Thrived on Thinkpads, second hand corpo Thinkpads, T series Thinkpads, and more. Loved the keyboards. Windows? well that's how an OS is supposed to be, right? even if it takes precedence over my sanity. Also yes, I would like to keep my nuts un-roasted, thanks. A desk was a must.
Fast travel to my M1 purchase. Been hearing all the rave about this new ARM M thing that apple has created. Bought one, 16GB of ram. My android phone weeped (KDE Konnect FTW).
While leaning into the OS itself, there are no pushy apps? no pushy updates? what? everything looked so good, even the wallpapers. Display looked like heaven. Keyboard still wasn't a match for Thinkpads (I doubt any keyboard is, no, not even mechanical ones). But everything else? it was butter slide E2E.
Jetbrains opened in an instant. Android emulator ran faster than my actual Android device, Windows on parallels felt snappy, OS never got in my way of doing things. Everything I was greeted with the crisp refreshing touch of metal whenever I picked my beauty up. It woke up exactly like I had put it eons ago, always did. Never bothered with a shutdown.
Then one day, it fell down. From my table. Then again, from sofa. My wallet hid in a corner. Dents occurred to both my machine and my psyche. Nothing else. It is literally metal, I reminded myself.
Got a 4K monitor recently. Spent countless moons on reading stuff. Went for single cable USB C solution. Everything turned out smooth. Fonts look great. Nothing left to desire (discounting Studio Display of course). No extra app was installed not even better display.
It has been more than 4 years I've been driving this machine daily, and it still hasn't slowed down on me. I still do emulators, 15-20 safari tabs in each profile (work+personal), cursed NPM installs, dockers, unholy -e requirrements.txt with much servers running around, and more.