In our windows domain a lot of those settings are also enabled.

It is a waste of money, literally to wait.

Animations, the first thing I turn off with any os. I hate them, why have an animation when it makes things slower.

With a 2000w chiller, maybe.

My parents still use a 7th gen Intel dual core laptop.

It is not the fastest machine, but YouTube, generally Internet Browser works just fine. Excel, Word etc is no problem.

The screen is 720p but for them it is still fine.

Shut down? Never, reboot when necessary.

I only care about one point and that is efficiency, let’s wait for the real tests and see.

I got my m2 air for the simple reason that it is the most reliable workstation on the go for my tasks.