Hi all, am considering getting the 16GB RAM as a switch from windows, my work will require loading big datasets on excel, running statistical models on R, and also running javascripts to automate some work on Adobe illustrator.

However my only concern was on the app compatibility issue on M1, as there's mixed review on running Illustrator on M1 as the native version is not out yet, some people have no issue while some cant even open without crashing.

Any owners can share your thoughts or any experience running these tools on MBA? Or maybe I should just stick with windows for my use case?
Much appreciated!

Ya I read about that too, but was thinking it’s easier to find a workaround for that as compare to illustrator, thanks for the heads up still

Thanks for your suggestion, please correct me if I m wrong but seems like this offers windows on ARM which currently still doesn’t support illustrator but I suppose that’ would help to solve the excel issue as mentioned above

Currently am working with 2 windows laptops actually which I use interchangeably, need to let go one of it recently and am considering maybe I could get something diff this time ie a MacBook, but seems like it’s the switch is not quite viable at the moment

Thanks for your suggestion, will look into it