[ewhanley]

This is it. An M series air is an incredible machine for most people - people who likely won’t ever write a line of js or use a GPU. Email, banking, YouTube, etc ona device with incredible battery and hardware that will likely be useful for a decade is perfect. The average user hasn’t even heard of HN.

[xvector]

It's great for power users too. Most developers really enjoy the experience of writing code on Macs. You get a Unix based OS that's just far more usable and polished than a Linux laptop.

If you're into AI, there's objectively literally no other laptop on the planet that is competitive with the GPU memory available on an MBP.

[wiseowise]

It's an amazing machine for engineers too.

[LettuceSand12]

Are newer airs good enough for development?

[moritzwarhier]

depends on your workload. RAM and passive cooling are the most likely issues but afaik an M2/M3 with 16GiB still performs a lot better than an similarly priced x64 laptop. Active cooling doesn't mean no throttling either.

If you don't explicitly want a laptop, a 32GB M2 Pro Mac Mini would be a good choice I think.

Personally i only have used MBPs so far.

But the M-series Air are not remotely comparable to the old Intel Airs, that's for sure :)