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.
It'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.
depends 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 :)
