Is it still wise to buy a used 2020 Macbook Air with an M1 chip, or is that going the way of the dinosaurs too soon to justify the attempt at cost-saving?
@kevinrothrock Apple is pretty aggressive at dropping support for older chips. I suspect that the M1 is even more endangered than most, since it was Apple’s first CPU. Translation: you’d need a really good deal to make it worthwhile.
Note well: this is just me guessing!
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Exactly my thoughts — the hardware might be still more than enough for most tasks, but support for is unlikely to last longer than 3 more years.
And messing with Linux drivers built using reverse-engineering… is just not for everyone 🤷
