It all depends what your use case is. Also, rant on how Apple was once my favorite, and now I hate them as much as 90s Microsoft. (M$ is no angel either with a

It all depends what your use case is. Also, rant on how Apple was once my favorite, and now I hate them as much as 90s Microsoft. (M$ is no angel either with all their telemetry...) I manage macs at scale, and I notice they are getting worse and worse. After managing 150 Macs as MDM admin, I want Mac to get off the train they're on and start being predictable again. Intel macs run like crap now, while the M1s chug along nicely. I'm convinced Apple bakes engineering obsolesce into their old products to keep you on that 3 year device renewal period. They got sued for it more than once for the "Battery throttling" on the iPhone, and likely one of the only times they will ever get caught doing it. And they had an excelent PR push of "Battery health = performance, not my fault" We've had to straight-up replace fully-decked-out 2019 i7s with 32GB ram because they run so badly with modern software. Our graphic designer has a $3000+ laptop that is useless for their job. Massive fuckery is going on, because these are powerful machines. Why suspect malice when you can suspect incompetence? Apple has a track record of lying about their throttling, so I assume there's a culture of it and it pads their bottom line. The T480 is looking great, other than the bad keyboard they adopted after they killed-off the last genuine thinkpad keyboards. An optional video card would have been great for the T line, but you'd have to go with W or P for that I think. I don't trust big companies in General, but Apple makes too much money for just a computer and software company. Their ecosystem's walled garden and "we know better" settings are repellent to me, and I've since given up my iOS device for LineageOS so I can use my hotspot without it automatically turning itself off (They surely know better about my hotspot practices).