My First Impressions of Apple’s M1 MacBook Air

The only laptop I ever needed.

I’ve spent most of 2020 looking for a new laptop. I didn’t mean to; what I meant to do was to buy the early 2020 MacBook Air and live with it. But this year has given us a lot of time to sit around and do nothing, and in my spare time, I ended up trying out many different laptops on my quest to find the perfect computer (for me).

Let’s recap, shall we? I started with the aforementioned MacBook Air, then went to the Surface Laptop 3, then back to the Air, and back to the Laptop 3 again. I briefly tried Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex Alpha (hard pass), and then Google’s Pixelbook Go (I miss you), before settling back on the MacBook Air. But wait, there’s more… I didn’t settle for long, you see, and in the next round, I went back to the Surface Laptop 3 and Pixelbook Go again, threw in two Lenovo laptops for good measure (Yoga C740 and ThinkPad Yoga L13) and a different model of the Laptop 3 before finally coming back around to the MacBook Air again. Whew.

But wait…….. there’s more……. After deciding that the MacBook Air was the computer I needed, I changed route again, trying the iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard to see if my iPad could be all the computer I needed. And for the most part, it succeeded. But I decided that I still wanted a full-fledged computer hanging…