the more i think about it, the more the 16gb ram does not make sense to me. In a laptop where the cpu is easily pushed, I dont think 16gb ram will ever be needed as the cpu is more likely gonna bottleneck your workflow before you can even reach 16gb ram usage. Because the most tabs i had open was 18 and the laptop was quite choppy already. 18 tabs safari, discord, spotify. I would recommend 8gb ram and i3/i5. Probably i3 as it runs cooler.
If you get the i3 model with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd its only 1,449. For a macbook air in 2020 that is a pretty good deal.
Also to add on to my post earlier. The battery is actually not that great compared to the old macbook airs of past. In my testing, i think 6 - 8 hours at 50% brightness.
After researching abit, the older macbook airs had 6,800mah batteries while this one only has 4,400. Quite the drop in capacity even if the processors are more power efficient.
