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My mid-2011 MacBook Air with 4 GB memory has been running really well. Occasionally Safari (the Metal version in High Sierra) gets slow, but it's still faster than Chrome. I've been using it for general casual computing and machine learning development with Jupyter Notebooks and haven't run into anything that would make me want to switch. I'll probably upgrade to a 2018 MacBook Pro with 8 GB memory when those come out.

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> I've been using it for general casual computing and machine learning development with Jupyter Notebooks

Must be working with very small datasets given so little RAM.

It chugged on a 2 GB csv for a personal project, but it was tolerable. I wouldn't use this machine for work.

Ditto. My 2011 Air is still one of the best machines I've ever bought, and it still gets daily use.

Same. This machine still gets daily use in my house.

The next laptop will not be a Mac though. Both the hardware and especially the software has gotten progressively worse to to point where it's not worth it anymore.

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