I own a MacBook Air for the road and a Mac mini at home powered by the M1 chip introduced in [late 2020](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/). All of my day-to-day tasks at work feel incredibly fast and responsive. For example, M1 can effortlessly handle demanding multi-tasking scenarios like editing photos in Affinity Photo, making beats in FL Studio, running resource-intensive web applications, and rendering videos without a hint of sluggishness. Don’t get me wrong. [Performance boosts](https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max-the-most-advanced-chips-for-a-personal-computer/) sound better for people who seek them. But with the phenomenal battery life, silent operation, and smoothness I get from M1, I just don’t feel the need to upgrade for at least a few more years. By then, Apple will have likely released even more ["powerful"](https://static.mgx.me/images/2023/finalform.jpg) chips. The M1 chip still proves it has plenty of headroom left. It is scary fast, m'kay.