[smoldesu]

> I'm glad Apple have come to their senses and course corrected. I do wonder though for people that have only seen the 2016-2019 era if they will bother to try Apple again...

I'm one of those angry bastards, and I even own an M1 Macbook Air. The hardware is impressive, no doubt, but MacOS frustrates me so much these days that I cannot daily-drive it for my workflow. Plus, once you make the switch to Linux it's really hard to see Apple products as an upgrade anymore. You're giving away your freedom, and condemning yourself to paying $8 to manage your windows properly or $10 just to hide some statusbar icons. And when all is said-and-done, I can't move that statusbar to the left side of my screen... God it frustrates me endlessly. When I saw how Big Sur redesigned everything, I just gave up on the OS altogether. The thousand papercuts I feel on MacOS are reduced to a couple hundred on Linux, the majority of which I can automate away without worrying about some bigger company pulling the rug out from under me.

I really wanted Apple Silicon to be a barnburner for me, and I was hoping beyond hope that they would take the extra space savings to add an M.2 drive or an easier to repair chassis. At this point though, I think I'm contented to just stop caring. Apple courageously headed in a direction I'm not ready to follow in, so I cut them loose in exchange for all my sweet creature comforts. And how comforting it is.

[washadjeffmad]

I sympathize with many of your takes, but have you looked into Framework[1] laptops?

They're currently only Intel based, but there's a marketplace where you can buy or sell just the mainboards once the AMD, RISC V, or ARM64 models become available.

[1] https://frame.work/

[smoldesu]

Framework looks great! I actually have no real need to upgrade my hardware right now though, as all my devices still run fine. I'd be very interested in picking up a RISC-V model once it hits manufacturing though, they seem very promising.