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I bought the Air as I had a bit of a deadline for getting a new machine and could not wait for the 14 or 16 inch models to be released.

The Air is silent, it's powerful enough for fairly serious dev workloads, it has a battery that lasts longer than I've ever seen before and it can run multiple displays if you get a compatible displaylink dock.

If you like it, there's little reason not to get one AFAICT. Make sure to grab the 16GB of RAM though!

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I'm not a 'product' person... but the macbook air m1, is a GAME CHANGER with having no fan whatsoever, and generating very little heat. It brings me joy everyday to use it and that rarely happens from using a physical device.

Its the first 'laptop' that I can comfortably have on my lap for hours on end

> If you like it, there's little reason not to get one AFAICT.

According to MacRumors update guide Air should be updated very soon, so I’m personally waiting for the updated version.

Fair enough. And if they do then I imagine the (easily worked around) screen limitation will probably be lifted, so that's a decent reason.

Just a heads up with this. If you want one, make sure you get an off the shelf config if you can. The turnaround times for replacements and repair is likely to be bad on non stock configurations.

This pushed me to the 14” MBP with 16GB and 1TB. You can literally get it swapped out same day at apple stores if anything goes wonky.

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