[solardev]

I grew up with Asus and Acer and then Dells and Alienwares and Surface Books and ThinkPads and Razers, comfortably in the Wintel world. But the Apple Silicon laptops are so far ahead it's not even a comparison. Especially if you want to be able to run Photoshop natively (ie not emulated in Linux).

Forget the metal dings. The new ones have smoother edges, I think. Run an automatic backup to somewhere else.

The hardware is so so so much better than anything else out there there's not really a comparison. I doubt anyone else would catch up within 5 years either.

At the end of the day they're just tools, not some religious argument. At this point in time they're substantially better than anything else, by a large margin, especially for dev and creative work.

I also use IntelliJ and Photoshop side by side, and these crazy machines last the whole day on battery power without the fans ever kicking on or anything getting slow. The poor throttled Thinkpad X1 isn't even remotely close in performance.

Shrug. Sorry, probably not the answer you wanted to hear. But Apple did some serious engineering in those while Microsoft and Intel sat on their butts for a decade.

[threadweaver34]

> Sorry, probably not the answer you wanted to hear

It's validation. Windows has gone downhill, Apple locks you in, you use Linux on principle.

[solardev]

I admire your dedication to the cause!