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Yep, there's no one else. It's a sad state of affairs in the laptop world outside of Apple. Used to be primarily a Linux on the desktop user, but have been on
by thewebguyd 2y ago
Yep, there's no one else. It's a sad state of affairs in the laptop world outside of Apple.
Used to be primarily a Linux on the desktop user, but have been on macOS since the M1 air, and now typing this from a 14" M4 Pro MBP that will probably last me the next 5+ years easily.
I don't love macOS but it's usable, I pretty much live in the terminal anyway, and the ecosystem features are nice - I make heavy use of clipboard sharing between my laptop and phone, iMessage, and universal control with my iPad that's on my desk.
There's just no other laptop on the market that has this combination of aesthetics, performance, thermals (this thing is cool and silent), screen quality, top notch speakers and microphone for a laptop, and unmatched trackpad. Let alone anything that'll run Linux without some headaches.
I had hopes for the Snapdragon X elite laptops, but no Linux still, and they still don't hold a candle to the Macbooks.
- cogman10 2y agoI put a LOT of the blame on ARM chipset manufacturers. The reason you can't get a good ARM laptop that isn't a Mac is because the chipset manufacturers treat them like they treat everything else. They want to have a custom patched kernel that's already 2 decades old and they drop support for it next month. It says a lot that probably the best in the space is the humble Raspberry Pi.
- Applejinx 2y agoI'd probably make a point of buying a half-decent Pi laptop. I bought a 400, compile the Pi versions of my audio plugins on it. Pi laptop with the most cursory audio I/O? I'm there. Not to live, but to support as a first class production option. There's something very 'sailboat with solar panel' about 'em.
- easygenes 2y agoIt's beyond that. The CPU designers aren't designing for ACPI or to target the ARM PC-BSA (Base System Architecture for PCs).