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An M3 won’t even come close to breaking a sweat doing all of those things.

Hell, add in multiple intensive browser tabs, a few large Excel sheets, and VSCode open to a large Rust project with rust-analyzer running and still, the processor will hardly even get hot. I’ve done all of this on an M2 with zero problem whatsoever.

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This has been my experience. My 15" M2 Air has never gone off the deep end on these tasks. Cool and quiet during streaming and heavy multitasking.

To be fair, I felt compelled to spend hundreds of dollars extra on 24GB and 1TB to address the swapping and IO constraints that exist at the 8G/256GB price point.

Oh how I wish that would be true.

> I’ve done all of this on an M2 with zero problem whatsoever.

I mean it probably depends on a bunch of details, you probably wanna use a video conferencing tool which uses hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding.

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