• M500@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty close to getting a used m1 air for $500.

    I can probably search a bit and get a slightly better deal.

    The price might be a bit high, but I’m not in the US and we have higher prices here.

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      1 year ago

      I just got one for around $600 in the US on Swappa. I tried to get one cheaper but couldn’t find it where I lived. Anyway, I’m super happy with it. I made sure it was a low number of battery cycles and it’s in near mint condition.

      The other day, I was coding in VSStudio, debugging JavaScript in Chrome with multiple tabs open, and logging issues I found on a template in Excel. Excel alone makes my work computer freeze and I didn’t notice a single slow down on this thing. It was fantastic.

      I don’t love the way Mac handles open-window management but aside from that I’m very happy.

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        1 year ago

        Do you have 8gb of ram in your machine?

        There is an electronics market where I live. I have a recentish lenovo it actually might be a year newer than the M1 so I am going to try and swap it. Maybe I can go next week.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, just 8. I was worried about only 8 actually but I couldn’t bring myself to spend the extra money on the 16gb (I have a desktop if I need to fall back on it).

          So far so good. I haven’t even noticed hitting a wall with the low amount of ram. I forgot to mention, I’m just coding websites. Even with the JavaScript, I’m not building AAA or doing a ton, really.