As an owner of an 8gb M1 Air, I now think that a machine for “light usage” that can barely handle a half dozen of open tabs and 1 Docker container shouldn’t cost even half as much. I bought it for about $1700 with 512Gb SSD.

In fact, Apple should stop offering 8GB versions at this point as MacOS is very memory hungry compared to Windows. That yellow “memory pressure” graph is irritating.