Of course my work is all Windows so I still have to live and breathe that every single day but when it comes to personal use, OSX is my favorite! Apple really does make great hardware with a well-polished OS to go with it. I recently switched to an iPhone after using Android for more than a decade. I still have a few dislikes with iOS compared to Android but for the most part I’ve been really happy with it.
One or two Apple products when viewed by themselves may not always be the best product on the market. Are there more powerful phones? Absolutely. Computers? Definitely.Congrats, nice machine you have! I have been using Macs since grade school back in the mid 90’s. There was a period from about 1998 thru 2003 where I only used Windows but since then I primarily use my Mac for mostly everything with exception to KTuner
Grew up with an Apple II GS but used Windows machines exclusively from middle school until about my Junior year of college when I bought a used Mac Mini G4 off eBay. The rest is history, lol! Current main Macs are a iMac 5k (i9/64GB/512GB) and I too just bought a MBA M1 but with the stock 8GB/256GB configuration . The M1 MBA was replacing a 2012 MBA (i5/4GB/128GB) for me. Definitely a vast improvement! Love having Touch ID and unlock with Apple Watch feature. It also is MUCH smaller than the 2012 MBA even though it has the same display size since they cut out those large bezels
Word on the Apple pipeline is that a 14" MBP is coming to replace the currnet generation. Also the Touchbar sounds as if its going away. If I jump to an M1 chip, I'll definitely hold out for that. It does sound as though battery life and speed are a vast improvement over the current Intels.Grew up with an Apple II GS but used Windows machines exclusively from middle school until about my Junior year of college when I bought a used Mac Mini G4 off eBay. The rest is history, lol! Current main Macs are a iMac 5k (i9/64GB/512GB) and I too just bought a MBA M1 but with the stock 8GB/256GB configuration . The M1 MBA was replacing a 2012 MBA (i5/4GB/128GB) for me. Definitely a vast improvement! Love having Touch ID and unlock with Apple Watch feature. It also is MUCH smaller than the 2012 MBA even though it has the same display size since they cut out those large bezels
I know the feeling. Before I purchased my 5k iMac last year, lots of people were telling me to hold out because Apple was surely going to release a redesigned iMac at WWDC. Well, that didn't happen. Playing the waiting game can be a never-ending game if you go too deep down that rabbit hole. I tend to keep my Macs for at least 5 years or more, though, so for me - even if I DO miss out on something shortly after I purchase a new one, the one I got is still a massive improvement over what I had.