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Nothing struggles. But the Intel 2020 Air is noticeably slower than the refurbished 2012 Linux Mint (and 2015 Windows) that I own.

Disclaimer: I bought the Mac for building apps only.

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Interesting that the blame here seems to sit with Apple. Aren’t we asking why Google, who owns the browser, can’t make YouTube, a video player, that they own, work in that browser on 2020 hardware?

YouTube is a turd. I do everything I can to avoid using it. How they’ve screwed up a video player that badly boggles the mind.

Youtube is basically optimizing for their own costs over that of end users by using VP9, which uses less bandwidth but often is software-decoded. So the real answer is basically that they can, but it would cost them more.

(Of course, the YouTube frontend is also fairly bloated, which doesn't help. There isn't much of an excuse for that one).

Oh, I'm not blaming Apple for anything here. I actually love my Mac Air, for the things its really good at. I'm blaming the so-called YT influencers/content creators that lie to their audience.

The M1 macs are the fastest web browsing machines you can buy, by a huge margin. If that's your use case, there's no question what machine to get. The closest you can come with mobile x86 is to get the top-of-the-line 11th Gen Core i7, and the M1 beats that thing by almost 100% in browser benchmarks.

Yep, or alternatively an iPad Air with a magic keyboard.

(Ducks)

Not even wrong. There's hardly a difference between the latest iPad and the latest MacBook.

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