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My M1 Air is the best computer I've ever owned. Handles everything I throw at it.

My M1 Pro (work computer) is such a leap from my old intel machine. It's wild to be running our services locally with Docker, install Xcode, and take a Zoom call without so much as hearing the fans. Battery lasts all day. Don't know if I'd fork over that much money myself, though.

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"It's wild to be running our services locally with Docker, install Xcode, and take a Zoom call"

Wow. My ears started playing a loud phantom fan noise just reading that. No way my 2019 mac can handle that.

Same. I got the M1 Air earlier this year. Was worried I was too late in the product cycle, but after using it, this thing will be a beast for years to come.

Once you experience a computer that is absolutely silent, it’s really hard to go back to a normal laptop. My windows notebook spins it’s fan constantly and it drives me crazy. I have to put the machine to sleep and unplug the charger just to shut the damn thing up when I’m not using it

Are you running Arm Docker images? My experience with x86_64 images on M1 Max has been quite poor.

x86_64 docker is possible, but quite bad, also will always crash on some images (e.g erlang 24 due to added JIT). Switched to github actions for building own images

How much RAM?

I have an M1 Air as well. It's the best laptop I've owned, but in hindsight I should have sprung for 16GB. 8GB isn't enough.

16 doesn't feel like enough either (on the M1Pro MBP, I feel like I should have gone for the 32...

I lived out of an 8gb M1 Air for a year or so - it was great, but I should’ve gone with 16gb. Now I’m on a 32gb M1 Pro and concur with you that this feels like a sweet spot. Docker, Parallels, multiple browser windows, Slack, Blender, Unreal Engine … all at the same time. You just don’t have to think about manually managing your memory pressure.

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