I decided to share my personal opinion and experience regards the MBA M1. I purchased this MBA back in Jan 2022 as a work horse (if you can call this) for office type work/school general web type, just go to sort of device. Pick up and use it. When they originally come out there was this talk and still is when buying new MBA or MBP about spec what should I get? Well in our case giving that is not a video editing machine or anything like that I decided the base spec is enough 8gb ram/256SSD, currently having 3 users setup and this is huge surprise even my wife found fairly easy doing her bits and trust me she is not tech person at all. Took her couple months to adjust to macOS from windows but she gets it now and ability to work along with her iPhone she agrees that this eco system works in our house hold. We still have Windows base work horse but hardly ever use it anymore. Daughter use it for school, even at school and I was bit worried at first but is proven to be very robust device. Battery health after all this time is still at 97% and we just stick it on charger when it needs it. Size is perfect for a this type of device and need, light and powerful enough for what we use. So as you can tell happy with purchase and in future will upgrade to newer device and can't see my self getting anything else as a laptop device. Honestly if anyone read this and thinking about getting the newer MBA's or MBP I don't think one can be disappointed specially if you thinking of upgrading your window base laptop.