I haven't posted about M1 Macbooks in a while. Feels like I have a whole new cohort of followers who haven't been lectured to.
Buy an M1 Macbook Air. It's like the end of history computer.
Because it's insanely fast, has all-day battery, and doesn't need a fan.
The technical answer is the system-on-a-chip design, which brings massive benefits in speed, energy consumption, and heat generation
i think the aggregate synthetic benchmarks rank them somewhere in the middle of prev gen ryzen 5 + i5
but if you just isolated, like, rendering and compile, they'd prob look more impressive.