Not at all. Sure when I'm at home its docked, but so far in Linux battery life has been fantastic. Not Apple fantastic sure, but I can get a good 5 hours of h

Not at all. Sure when I'm at home its docked, but so far in Linux battery life has been fantastic. Not Apple fantastic sure, but I can get a good 5 hours of heavy use, up to around 8 hours of web browsing and video streaming. I often use it on the road, throw back quake3 lan parties, coffee shop creative sessions. I just want decent enough power and no thermal throttling if I do have to hammer it. I make music so the extra ram and space for sample libraries is a big benefit and why I had to keep external SSD's around with my Macs. My Macbook Air needed a usb fan ziptied to the laptop stand to not throttle at times. >it seems like rather than trying to give a mac a reasonable go of it as opposed to whatever else, you were trying to instead explore a fundamental difference in how you value technology products I re-evaluate how I feel about technology pretty often and its caused some shifts for sure. My side hobby is ARM/RiscV low power computing and Apple's move to ARM tickled that hyper efficiency side of my brain, but ultimately failed to keep me interested because of all the downsides upgrade/repairability wise.