Very boring, but I’m running a 13" macbook air m1 from 2021 and a 2020 iPhone.
Before that I was running a beefy desktop 64GB RAM i7 setup with two 22in screens. I gave the screens away and keep the machine for a friend.
Portability won, since I spend quite some time at clients and often go to a coworking space.
This is already an overpowered machine compared to what I can expect an average “bigco” or public institutional user to have, so the slight reduction in available performance is an upside. It’s easy to have too much power available. The iPhone is a bit behind the times, but I don’t use nor develop apps.
I’m running the Docker disk image on an external Nvme 1TB SSD since it has a tendency to grab a lot of disk space under macOS, and disk space is not the first quality of a macbook air. I did not see a downgrade in performance from this. Copying a 10gb file to this drive takes around 5 seconds so bandwidth does not seem to be an issue.
That said, I do carry a fancy 61 key mechanical keyboard with me at times.
I sometimes see eyebrows raising when I pull an “old” macbook air in a meeting.
(edited to not rant about hardware usage)
