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Im looking for a machine with long battery life and good enough power to do my coding on the go as my secondary machine, i haven't used macbooks before, should i just use the cheapest m1 macbook air i can find or something else 

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Depends if you can tolerate apples ecosystem and other garbage.

Whats your budget for this?

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15 minutes ago, rippy4500 said:

Depends if you can tolerate apples ecosystem and other garbage.

Whats your budget for this?

What i need is good battery life and i cant get good battery life in windows ecosystem unfortunately and hopefully the machine is capable enough to run my ml codes 

Quite flexible on the budget

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The automatic suggestion for thin, portable, powerful, and long battery life would be one of the M-series MacBooks (Pro).

But you'll have to do your own homework if MacOS (or CrossOver / Parallels) is fully compatible with everything you intend to do.

 

My close friend is one of the most-senior Software Developers at this job (military contracts) and he does most of his work on a MacBook Pro 8GB 256GB he bought back in 2014. He only recently upgraded to an M2 Max MacBook Pro.

 

I have a MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16" and the battery lasts 8hrs-18hrs.

Easily 8-10hrs for productive work days and about 18hrs if I'm just on Reddit or watching VLC all day.

 

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I would not bother with the MacBook Air series unless you seriously need the laptop to be as light as possible.

a refurbished M1 Pro / M2 Pro MacBook Pro 14" is the sweet spot for performance, usability, battery life, and luxury

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