I'm looking to replace my current MacBook Pro (2015) with 16GB RAM and an i7 processor. I talked to a specialist at the Genius Bar who told me that the M1 is hands down faster than the processor I have, however to replace a MacBook is expensive and I'm looking to go cheap. Will an M1 in an Air with 8GB RAM work for development of iOS (Xcode) and Android apps (Android Studio) with and without Flutter? This includes running Simulator and Android Emulators. In addition I tend to leave lots of programs open, specifically Slack, Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft Office programs), Discord, Evernote, VSCode, Xcode, and a lot of the preinstalled apps (Mail, Messages, Calendar, Music, Safari, etc) and don't want to sacrifice that ability.
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