I cannot comment on the Mac replacement angle as I've been die-hard on Linux since the 1990s. I recently got a Thinkpad T495 with AMD Ryzen and it is fantastic

I cannot comment on the Mac replacement angle as I've been die-hard on Linux since the 1990s. I recently got a Thinkpad T495 with AMD Ryzen and it is fantastic with Fedora. I am very impressed, comparing to my older quad-core Thinkpad T440p and its anemic NVIDIA GPU. I suspect the T495s will be almost the same software/driver experience, with a lighter package. I believe mine came with an LTE modem that does not appear in Linux. (I didn't even want it, but it was forced along with the low-power 400 nit display that I demanded.) It is fantastically cool and quiet out of the box, unlike my prior hit-and-miss experiences with power management on recent Intel chipsets. Idle power usage is the lowest I have ever seen on an x86 computer (<3 watts screen off, 3-5 watts screen on and lightly using Firefox). I haven't yet done anything that really pushes its limits.