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by gnicholas 1262 days ago
M1 Macbook Air. I've been using a 2017 MBP that heats up easily, especially when plugged to an external monitor (apparently this requires use of the discrete GPU). The new MBA is always cool and the battery life is of course tremendous. I took it on a week-long vacation and charged it twice. It also has more ports (my MBP was a base model because I didn't want a TouchBar), which is very helpful.

I know the new MBPs are more powerful, and they have better connectivity. I'd love to have HDMI and SD slots, to be sure. But picked up my wife's new MBP, I'm happy to make the feature/weight tradeoff (and she's jealous of my featherlight MBA!).