Until my 15" MBAir purchase last year, it had been seventeen years since I'd purchased a laptop (edit: M2Pro Mini was first new computer in fifteen years).

CostCo had a $850 deal for an M3 Air, and as soon as I picked it up the sales clerk was printing my purchase ticket. It is so light, and the feet actually seem like they'll last a few years (unlike the solid-body designs since 2009).

Keyboard is fantastic. Battery life is unreal. Screen is beautiful.

I have been a full-time Macintosh user since 1991 (I remember fully 68k->PPC->x86->Silicon), and only recently set up my first Linux machine (because the modern OEM OS's are increasingly too invasive with AI'ification), a re-purposed MacPro5,1 #4evr