The hardware is great, I'm just not convinced that the price/performance delivers a big enough market.
Folks who know how computers work tend to subliminally optimize it, knowing when go quit apps, how to manage windows, patience with processes that logically take extra time, etc.
It’s the neophytes and dilettantes that run all their apps at the same time, have dozens of windows with hundreds of tabs open all the time, and are prone to freaking out when their system “beachballs”.
I coaxed my CEO — a business guy who happens to be in tech - into getting the M2 Air, watched a lot of his frustrations melt away. Between all the performance and battery life, it was a slam dunk. Meanwhile, I was running “compile workloads” on a wimpier 8gb M1 Air and sailing!
Sigh, seems like I'm a dilettante.
As another poster said, I bought a M1 Max, 64gb when they came out and it still feels new speed wise. Unless something breaks, this computer should last a really long time.
With my M1 the fan rarely spins up at all and the efficiency/battery life makes a massive difference.
Give it a few years. Browsers and apps will expand to fill the available performance, as they always have.
Think of it as an investment. If it's tour personal laptop, you can buy a maxed-out M1/M2 and use it for the next decade (while throwing random shit at it like the occasional video editing, or streaming, or a side project...)
Regardless, other laptop vendors have mostly caught up in performance anyway. Mobility might have a better case to be made.
And no other laptops vendors haven't caught up. Their efficiency is still way lower.
All of them; the battery life of an M1/2 Macbook should be the minimum bar that all other laptops should strive to meet, let alone beat.