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I bought the M1 MacBook Air when it came out almost 2 years ago. I’m Still amazed at how quickly everything opens and how long the battery lasts.

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I was using the MacBook Air in 2013 and was impressed with its reliability. Prior to that I'd been on Dell XPS laptops.

The MacBook Air M1 is just another level of solidarity and speed and battery life.

It just works.

So long as Apple continues on their existing pathway I'll forgive them pretty much anything.

I bought the M1 Max MBP when it came out and the battery still shocks me. 80-90% of the time it's in a dock on my desk but I'll be sitting on the couch and think "Oh, I should probably plug in, I've been running it hard for the last hour or so.... oh.... 70% still, nevermind".

While the energy efficiency is vastly improved with Apple Silicon, the battery technology is still Li-ion. If your dock charges, you're killing your battery letting it charge every time it drops below 100% capacity. Apparently, the ideal way to extend Li-ion battery lifetime is to use the battery, never letting it drop below 20% capacity, but never charging it above 80%.

Apple already solves this problem! https://imgur.com/a/HglsjJq (hovers around 78% on my personal machine)

There is a tool that takes care of it for you - https://github.com/davidwernhart/AlDente

I bought a pair for my kids and they have been absolutely wonderful school computers. I don't even carry a personal laptop any more, and I personally don't like Mac OS X, and I really don't like Apple's RAM pricing, but the hardware design is truly hard to beat.

I haven’t bought any M2s yet. Still so giddy about the M1

I used 3 different MacBook pros for work and after getting assigned a M1 MBP, the battery life convinced met to get an M2 MBA after it came out. I can never go back to Windows or System76 after this.

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