I'm a cynical bastard, but the M1 MacBook Air is the real deal. I don't recall being so pleased with a laptop in a long, long time. I'm yet to find something I could possibly gripe about.

Completely agreed. I've owned a lot of laptops and other devices... There's no question at this point that the M1 MBA has become my all time favorite.

The only complaint I have is that you can't run two external monitors off of it, but I have no doubt that the next generation will address that.

A lot of people will still prefer/need two monitors I’m sure, but if you haven’t tried an ultrawide yet I would encourage you to. I would always pick an ultrawide over two monitors.

Any recommendations on software to tile the display? One reason I like 2 screens is because things like maximizing or full-screening still leaves me with the other display for other windows.

A single ultrawide would be way better, if I could count on having 2 virtual displays within.

I'm a big fan of Spectacle App https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle.

* Edit* Apparently Spectacle has been discontinued.