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I've had 2 Dell XPS's running Ubuntu, a 9300 and 9370. I very recently switched to an Air M2. The build quality between the XPS and the air is night and day.

by latch 4y ago

I've had 2 Dell XPS's running Ubuntu, a 9300 and 9370. I very recently switched to an Air M2. The build quality between the XPS and the air is night and day. The 9300 flexed so much that when I picked it up with a single hand, the trackpad would click from the flex. After a couple years, the keyboard stopped working, the shell started to physically split and I had to tighten the case screws every week or so (there was a ~2-3mm gap in the case, to a point where the USBc wouldn't line up). My camera started to turn off at the slightest vibration/breeze. I find OSX painful. But between a mildly frustrating OS and crap hardware...for me, the air is an obvious better buy.

bdcravens 4y ago
Linus is using a Macbook Air: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powered-m2-macbook-air-to-release-latest-linux-kernel/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-... It's not the first time: https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-i-love-my-macbook-air/ https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvald...
- pmontra 4y ago
  He is also using a Macbook Air, probably not his main machine. From the release notes of the latest kernel release [1] > On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. [...] > Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. But I'm trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0Xi0OEQ3H1uQgOdFvHgx0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X...
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Linus isn't daily driving a Mac for his dev work. He just used it for the commit.

by latch 4y ago

bdcravens 4y ago

Linus is using a Macbook Air: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powered-m2-macbook-air-to-release-latest-linux-kernel/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-... It's not the first time: https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-i-love-my-macbook-air/ https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvald...

pmontra 4y ago
He is also using a Macbook Air, probably not his main machine. From the release notes of the latest kernel release [1] > On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. [...] > Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. But I'm trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0Xi0OEQ3H1uQgOdFvHgx0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X...
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Linus isn't daily driving a Mac for his dev work. He just used it for the commit.