hey guys, need some recommendation on getting an external display for MBA M1. any monitor that works perfectly, trouble-free for you atm?

Thanks man, I've never thought buying a monitor for Mac could be so daunting unlike buying for Windows machines - especially for M1, there's a lot of discussions about its incompatibility, fonts get blurry etc.

For me buying this RM5k machine comes with many headache.

Casual browsing, Netflix for movie, and some graphical statistical works

My suspicion is your charging behaviour has led to battery degradation - if you use your MacBook like an iPhone then its battery will be similar like one.

Mine is at 7-month mark but battery is still 100% capacity, cycle count 28. I rarely plug it out and I use it with a monitor; hence.

It's highly unlikely that Rosetta has degraded your battery like that. In fact, M1 chips were optimised for that.

Should've gotten the 8-core version if you were to BTO it with 16GB RAM.

7-core versions are binned version of its 8-core counterparts. The binned part says it all.

I was experimenting too actually. Eventually your Mac will show "Rarely used on battery"

But before that happens, the system will learn your charging behaviours by decharge until like 95% before it charges again. After a week or so without charging, it only displays "Rarely used on battery" until the next time it's on battery.

Apple actually released a macOS update in February '21 to prevent hubs from bricking the M1s.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301846...gle-dock-damage