Yeah, I just got an M1 Air after hearing people talk about it as a sort of religious experience, and I can confirm that even with high expectations I'm incredib

Yeah, I just got an M1 Air after hearing people talk about it as a sort of religious experience, and I can confirm that even with high expectations I'm incredibly impressed with the battery life. It's worth noting that the stories about crazy battery life (getting through 4+ full days on one charge) come when you use the Apple apps and don't have the brightness too high. If you have the brightness high and use Chrome/lots of non-Apple stuff then you'll have good but not insane battery life. If you set the brightness to a medium-low level and use Apple apps then you'll get ridiculous battery life - I managed to use 17% battery for a full working day the other day (Safari, Sublime, a node server, Postgres, the notes app, and two terminals open.) When I bought the thing I told myself that using Apple apps was what came with the territory, and I'm actually not missing much. The Safari devtools are great. I do miss uBlock Origin (the alternative for Safari seems to be AdGuard which is not great.) But Safari is a solid browser - certainly snappier than Firefox on Windows or Linux, competitive with Chrome, and I haven't run into any compatibility issues yet. I think it's interesting to hear the number of developers switching from Linux to macOS as they get M1 Macs. Personally I was a diehard Arch-on-a-beefy-Thinkpad guy (two extended batteries, three SSDs, etc etc) and in the first day of using this Mac I was completely won over. It all just works so seamlessly, performance is great, battery is incredible, screen is gorgeous, speakers are by far the best I've ever heard on a laptop, and shockingly I actually like the keyboard. The webcam is your average laptop quality (aka not great, and a disappointment in contrast to the rest of the hardware.) I do miss the pageup/dn keys, but aside from that, as almost all the M1 reviews end, "this is the best computer I've ever used."