I just had a leap of faith and god an M1 MBA with 8GB of RAM in January 1st around 1 month after its release And I never had any problems with it up until now.

I just had a leap of faith and god an M1 MBA with 8GB of RAM in January 1st around 1 month after its release And I never had any problems with it up until now. I use Chrome (Vivaldi) with tons of tabs and VS code with NodeJs and Java development and it was all snappy all the way The main problem I had was at that time whether there will be application support for ARM and almost all the apps I use started supporting ARM as soon as the M1 came out I only had to use Rosetta few times and NodeJS also started supporting ARM architecture as well But next time I’ll be going for a higher RAM than 8gb for longevity But I think I’ll be using this for couple more years and I think I’ll be skipping M2 since my M1 is good for now