I wish to purchase a MacBook which I will use to learning programming and web app development using Flask and Django (Harvard university's CS50). I am looking at the base variant of the M1 Macbook Air (8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage). I will use an external monitor with the Macbook. Will this MacBook take the kind of load which I will put on it?
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M1 Macbook Air for Flash + Django with external monitor
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They are both Python based so they should work well. You might need to update python on the Mac but that’s easy with brew. https://brew.sh
Yes, that will work nicely. The M1 Air is a dream webdev machine. And unless you plan on running VMs or Docker or work on gigantic datasets, 8 gigabytes of RAM should be just fine.