[levkk]

On top of it, intel chips are not competitive with apple silicon. Why buy a laptop that's 30% slower and uses more energy for the same price?

[ezst]

30% slower than a M5 is a M3/M4. I will take that, thank, and not concern myself with MacOS or the thousand cuts of leaving x86.

[wao0uuno]

To be able to run any OS you want.

[pb7]

Can it run macOS?

[clifflocked]

See https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

[cogman10]

For now, yes. But probably not for the next macos release.

[encom]

To avoid having to use Mac OS, and suffering the whims of Apple.