In what world is the Air's performance not reasonable? I have an M1 Air with 16GB of RAM and I've never felt like it was lagging behind me. It's my main compute

In what world is the Air's performance not reasonable? I have an M1 Air with 16GB of RAM and I've never felt like it was lagging behind me. It's my main computer which means it's used for work and every nerdy experiment I might run. The best part is I can do all of that shit all day long on the battery and the laptop is super easy to move/carry around. With no modifications or extra effort any thermal throttling I've ever encountered hasn't been noticeable. When the M1 Air first came out there were the breathless articles about thermal throttling. It's only something that will come up with extended periods of high CPU usage. I've tried to get my Air to thermally throttle and have only been able to do so doing 3D renders or running local LLMs for long periods (over an hour in my testing). Even long compiles don't really stress the CPU so much it throttles noticeably. The simple solution in that case was a $20 laptop stand with a fan off Amazon. If your use case is 100% CPU usage all the time either don't get an Air or get a cheap laptop stand with a built-in fan. If your Air isn't your CI/CD build machine or part of a render farm it'll be just fine.