M3 Air with 16gb (base config as of today) is potentially a decade’s worth of computer. Amazing value.
Base 16gb is absolutely wild. My base m2 air with 8gb is almost enough to handle anything I’d ever want it to without zero slowdown.
A 16gb model for about a thousand bucks?? I can’t believe how far macbooks have come in the last few years
The latest of whatever you have will be so much better than the intel one, and the next advances will be so marginal, that it's not even worth looking at a buyer's guide.