[prmoustache]

But is that performance benefit worth the non replacability/upgradability.

Looks to me like laptops are fast enough these days and have been for more than a decade. I have 3 laptops, one from 2011, one from 2017 and one from 2019.

Even the oldest one is fine for everything. If I had specific tasks that needed more comoutation speed it would be make more sense to use a remote server than replace it.

[huijzer]

That is not my experience at all. My Intel laptop bought new in 2023 took 40 minutes to compile LLVM, would get extremely hot and loud, and the screen would hang multiple times during the process. This laptop’s fan would even spin when watching YouTube. My current M1 chip takes only 20 minutes without fan or freezing screens. I’ve looked it up and the M1 chip requires only half the clock cycles to get data from memory and I suspect that does play a role in the dramatic difference in performance and energy efficiency.

[prmoustache]

I am not a gentoo user.