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There are good laptops out there other than Macs... Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc all have offerings which are supported out of the box by Linux because they aren't using their own hardware or do contribute the necessary code to run FOSS OSs.For the love of all that is holy, name one model that has the following properties:
- 6 hours real life battery doing C++ development work.
- 7+ days suspend battery life
- 99.99% success rate resuming from suspend under linux (~ 1 kernel panic per year is OK)
- Centered keyboard and trackpad
- >> 1080p screen
- bluetooth, wifi, webcam, etc, etc, all work reliably (~ 1 device "need to reboot" failure across all categories, per year)
- un-noticable fan
- less than 10% permanent hardware failure rate per year
None of the last ~ $10K worth of intel machines I've used (including high end macs, linux and windows machines) met the above criteria.
My M2 macbook actually ticks all the boxes.
However, I really, really, dislike MacOS.
For the love of all that is holy, name one model that has the following properties:
- 6 hours real life battery doing C++ development work.
- 7+ days suspend battery life
- 99.99% success rate resuming from suspend under linux (~ 1 kernel panic per year is OK)
- Centered keyboard and trackpad
- >> 1080p screen
- bluetooth, wifi, webcam, etc, etc, all work reliably (~ 1 device "need to reboot" failure across all categories, per year)
- un-noticable fan
- less than 10% permanent hardware failure rate per year
None of the last ~ $10K worth of intel machines I've used (including high end macs, linux and windows machines) met the above criteria.
My M2 macbook actually ticks all the boxes.
However, I really, really, dislike MacOS.