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For me it's the screen. Been using an ultrawide for several years and I could never go back. Also, I hear that you don't need as much RAM with an M1, but I don

For me it's the screen. Been using an ultrawide for several years and I could never go back. Also, I hear that you don't need as much RAM with an M1, but I don't have personal experience. I do know that I regularly push the limits of my 32GB Hackintosh and, using it only for web browsing, our 8GB Surface quickly becomes close to useless. I know the sort of edge case people you're talking about. I'm most definitely not one.

unicornfinder 5y ago
To be honest the line of not needing as much RAM because M1 is total nonsense. Rather, it's just that people in general don't need as much RAM as they think they do, but ultimately if you need a lot of RAM for docker, development, whatever, then M1 isn't going to change that.
hughrr 5y ago
I’m running an 8Gb MacBook Air. This replaced my 32Gb i5 Mac mini. And it’s fine. I don’t hit any memory pressure. To do this I accept two compromises: no virtual machines, light weight editor (vim). The VMs I spin up when I need them in the cloud. Turns out this works out better than it did before anyway. No fan grinding away and I’ve got a laptop again finally which doesn’t singe my genitals. I was running vscode with no problems as well but found some annoying bugs so went back to vim which has served me well for 20 years now.