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What is important for you? Web surfing and watching Netflix? They are all pretty much equivalent. Running Linux? I don’t think the M chips are well supported,
by brudgers 1y ago
What is important for you?
Web surfing and watching Netflix? They are all pretty much equivalent.
Running Linux? I don’t think the M chips are well supported, and last I looked it appeared the M3 and 4 are not supported at all…though, I did not look at Arch.
Equivalent in price, aesthetics, or brand identity?
For Gaming? Programming? Training LLM’s? Editing Video?
Battery Life?
- khurs 1y ago> “Web surfing and watching Netflix? They are all pretty much equivalent.” Not really. Many laptops still come with 1080 hd screens and $1 speakers. You would want an upgraded screen, ideally oled along with multiple speaker drivers.
- brudgers 1y agoSomeone who takes audio and video seriously, probably won’t be using a laptop as the goto experience..
- csomar 1y agoMostly compiling Rust. It is a quite battery draining process. Also the main reason I want to avoid a mac is to be able to run Linux. Battery life is not a deal breaker but it'll be really nice to take my laptop to places without a bulky charger and not having to worry about usage.
- brudgers 1y agoWhy not cloud resources to compile? I am not saying it is what you want, but a few grand saved on a laptop could buy some compute. And a laptop that doesn’t need to compile Rust can be optimized for other ergonomics. Workstation laptops never have great battery life and other than Thinkpads, laptop Linux tends to be a bit painful.