[Nrsolis]

Meh. I’m seriously considering dumping MacOS and MacBooks in general.

I can get a Lenovo X1 Extreme w/ 64GB of memory and a great display. People have Linux working on it. You can work on it yourself.

I’m not sure that Apple maintains as much of a lead over their competition as they think they do. They’ve made some serious missteps recently.

[ElCapitanMarkla]

I've had a 2013 MacBook Air as my main dev machine since new and I just can't bring myself to replace it with a new Mac. Cost wise they are horrendous and those keyboards... ugh. I built a Ryzen PC last year and moved all my dev work to a VM that I SSH into on there. When this trusty laptop finally gives up I'm totally going that X1 route, my friend here has one and they are so nice.

[kerng]

I recently got a Surface Laptop 2. It's a well designed device and I like the larger screen and slick feel. I like it better compared to the new MacBook Pro at work. Overall,I have gotten quite fond of the Surface Laptop over the last 3 months.

[webmobdev]

Can you install Linux or FreeBSD on it?

[kerng]

Haven't tried, but I assume it's possible. I'm running Ubuntu in VMs.

[webmobdev]

From what I have read, to install Linux / BSD you have to first disable SecureBoot. And even then, many features still don't work. So that makes a Surface a dud for any OS other than Windows.

[toomuchtodo]

Can you run it as a Hackintosh? Asking for when my 2012 MacBook Air gives up the ghost.

Edit: You can.

https://github.com/tylernguyen/x1c6-hackintosh