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This is it. An M series air is an incredible machine for most people - people who likely won’t ever write a line of js or use a GPU. Email, banking, YouTube, et
by ewhanley 2y ago
This is it. An M series air is an incredible machine for most people - people who likely won’t ever write a line of js or use a GPU. Email, banking, YouTube, etc ona device with incredible battery and hardware that will likely be useful for a decade is perfect. The average user hasn’t even heard of HN.
- xvector 2y agoIt's great for power users too. Most developers really enjoy the experience of writing code on Macs. You get a Unix based OS that's just far more usable and polished than a Linux laptop. If you're into AI, there's objectively literally no other laptop on the planet that is competitive with the GPU memory available on an MBP.
- wiseowise 2y agoIt's an amazing machine for engineers too.
- LettuceSand12 2y agoAre newer airs good enough for development?
- moritzwarhier 2y agodepends on your workload. RAM and passive cooling are the most likely issues but afaik an M2/M3 with 16GiB still performs a lot better than an similarly priced x64 laptop. Active cooling doesn't mean no throttling either. If you don't explicitly want a laptop, a 32GB M2 Pro Mac Mini would be a good choice I think. Personally i only have used MBPs so far. But the M-series Air are not remotely comparable to the old Intel Airs, that's for sure :)