1. Excellent. I'm on an air, and it's quiet and cool, but performance is great. Given the good performance, the battery life is quite amazing.
2. This is my first non linux laptop in around a decade, and it took a lot of getting used to. Different shortcut keys to get around, move text about, and a different command-line experience. Homebrew has been good to resolve a lot of that, but I mostly embraced the differences and just went with it. A lot of the MacOS design decisions are very ergonomic and it's worth giving them a shot.
3. Docker has been fine for me, although the architecture on the m1 means things I took for granted on a full x86 dev/target stack can be more complicated or slower.
4. I have the 16GB model and have been very impressed with it's memory usage, and haven't suffered at all. I have not done any video editing, but have done work with Blender and some large-ish textures, without trouble. Plus the usual oodles of tabs, many apps, etc.
Extra thoughts: I bought this laptop because in 2021 three other new laptops broke for me. Two had USB-C charging or power circuitry issues, and one had an NVME (or SSD or whatever) storage failure, all within 1-3 months of purchase. This machine has been solid.
2. This is my first non linux laptop in around a decade, and it took a lot of getting used to. Different shortcut keys to get around, move text about, and a different command-line experience. Homebrew has been good to resolve a lot of that, but I mostly embraced the differences and just went with it. A lot of the MacOS design decisions are very ergonomic and it's worth giving them a shot.
3. Docker has been fine for me, although the architecture on the m1 means things I took for granted on a full x86 dev/target stack can be more complicated or slower.
4. I have the 16GB model and have been very impressed with it's memory usage, and haven't suffered at all. I have not done any video editing, but have done work with Blender and some large-ish textures, without trouble. Plus the usual oodles of tabs, many apps, etc.
Extra thoughts: I bought this laptop because in 2021 three other new laptops broke for me. Two had USB-C charging or power circuitry issues, and one had an NVME (or SSD or whatever) storage failure, all within 1-3 months of purchase. This machine has been solid.