I got mine at the start of july, I am at 3.27tb/2.12tb for my 16GB/256GB M1 Air in 78 hours, 11 unsafe shutdowns. I use it as a browser (excessive firefox tabs

I got mine at the start of july, I am at 3.27tb/2.12tb for my 16GB/256GB M1 Air in 78 hours, 11 unsafe shutdowns. I use it as a browser (excessive firefox tabs) and discord client and terminal mostly, light dev stuff (fast in intellij lol) etc. Kinda whatevs, that's what the swap is there for, I'm not worrying about my SSD getting used up in only 15 years or whatever. I keep half an eye on the task manager (put it on the dock) and if you see red (kernel time) start to really spike up it can indicate swapping and it's time to reconsider your tabs. It can be other things too but it's one thing to keep an eye on. It's 16gb, it's not infinite, and if you have 1000 tabs open then yeah you're probably going to want to close some before you start something else, but, it's reasonable for consumption or light personal dev work (especially if you have a fileserver that could run containers/DBs). It's not gonna omg burn out the SSD the first time you have 100 tabs open. 8GB would be really really tight though, I'd imagine those machines might be swapping quite a bit more, that's a very low RAM spec other than for a consumption machine or terminal. And I wouldn't say no to more at 16gb either, too bad there's such a price increment on M2 24GB or MBP 14"/16". Someday it'd be nice to move up to a 64gb spec and just have all the RAM, but there's other things I'd rather do, the MBA is fine for around the house etc, and I wanted to build a beefy fileserver to host services/containers anyway.