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S**, I haven't felt much urge to upgrade from my 16GB M1 Air and I even use it to play some Windows games under Crossover. Quite possibly the best laptop I've ever owned.

It's really nice springing for 64G RAM and being increasingly glad you did for every year that passes. (And this year more than most)

It's always come in handy for containers/VMs (and I assume compiling Rust, as it uses as much of every other resource as it can get it's hands on) but yeah, being able to run actually useful local LLMs on my now >4 year old machine has been fantastic.

Before you do, note that battery time on Asahi is abysmal at best, so if you're on battery often I'd really reconsider.

Abysmal? I am getting 8 hours on my M1 air with 80% battery life on it. What are you talking about?

Abysmal by macOS on m series standards, pretty decent by everything else standards.

So not abysmal! Abysmal would be if it was 3h, not 8-10.

> if it was 3h

You mean perfectly normal for every other laptop.

It’s all a matter of perspective