Named Chikorita when I had it, this is now Sam's MacBook, and should have a few years in it yet. * MacBook Pro M1 2020 (the first gen of Apple Silicon) * 8Gb RAM, 512Gb Storage Still a very usable machine - I only upgraded because my parents very generously offered to buy me an upgrade - see [MacBook Pro M2 Max](../macbook-pro-m2-max/). While I never found the M1 CPU as startlingly fast as some said, it *was* decently fast, and managed to be fast while *also* being almost silent, and still having good battery life. I didn't really see how the screen could get any better, but my new one *is* noticeably better, along with being a bit bigger. The one thing I got wrong when speccing this up was that I should have upgraded the RAM. 8Gb is fine *most* of the time, but I'd sometimes find things slowing due to swapping. As long as I took care to close apps I wasn't using, it was fine. And it did limit what games it could play.