In this video I spent a full month daily-driving a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro (and I basically compare it to the M1 Air too), coming from a Windows laptop background. I bought it used for £389.99 with 16GB RAM and 256GB storage after my ThinkPad X395 (great value, but meh thermals/battery) and an Asus Swift Go OLED (powerful on paper, but throttled itself into the sun) didn’t give me the “reliable workhorse” experience I wanted for 2025. The big wins are exactly what you’ve probably heard: battery life is ridiculous and the performance-per-watt is still flipping crazy. I was editing 4K 60fps on battery, rendering quickly, and the fan basically never came on unless I was doing heavier stuff like motion tracking while multitasking. You also get proper Apple build quality, a great touchpad, solid keyboard, strong speakers/mics (voice isolation is genuinely useful), and Touch ID. But it’s not all perfect. Buying used bit me with Apple ID/iCloud weirdness, soldered storage/RAM is annoying (256GB fills fast), and the port situation is a pain unless you live the dongle life. Also: don’t buy this for gaming, and the M1 external monitor limitation (one external display) is rubbish if you want a proper desk setup. Overall I land at about a 7/10 in 2025—still an amazing used buy if you get the right spec for the money.