Which macbook to choose for web development?

Question

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I want to buy a 2019 MacBook Air with i5 + 8GB RAM. For tasks: Django projects, design drawing in Figma or in Corel draw, google chrome, Logic Pro.
Can this model withstand such a load? If there are other approximations, I'm ready to listen. The budget is limited.

Answer 1

Ram < 16 in 2021 under "production work on a computer" can no longer be seriously considered.
It is important to understand a very simple thing - Eyre's niche: Eyre is a figulina that you wear for couples, make notes and labs in it in Word / Excel + surf the Internet and show the chicks that you have 60+ k for this three-year-old jalopy ( but there is no other ... mmm, parameter in RPG to swell these grandmothers into a real workhorse)
It is optimized for stretching the battery and lightness, and not for real work
- music production in the logic - will hiccup already on four tracks with effects (but reverb plugin is not needed, lol)
-drawing - well, try to draw through the window, how comfortable is it for you?
Attempts to start a couple of dockers (which is a standard working stack, even if you are a front) will put the baby on the line (they will gobble up all the memory, giga 2 will remain for chrome, and the howl of the cooler will be able to drive away the unclean forces. And burn your knees)
In short, the older one is better, but Proha (especially after pumping RAM and installing an SSD), than this is a miracle.

Answer 2

Take Air on M1, after almost a year it really drags everything, of course there is not enough ram, but a fast SSD will make it possible to work without the feeling of a paging file. The work, of course, is far from ideal, but in comparison with what you have chosen, it is "heaven and earth."