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by ActorNightly 29 days ago
In the very extreme case of not having access to charging for extended periods, I would understand the battery life argument, even though there are laptops you can buy with comparable battery life than are non mac, especially if you run a lightweight linux distro with i3wm that basically means your cpu sits fully idle when not in use (unlike Macs which constantly phone home to Apple)

But with fast charging and basically an outlet most everywhere you would actually use your laptop, that ship has sailed.

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> even though there are laptops you can buy with comparable battery life than are non mac, especially if you run a lightweight linux distro with i3wm

I am totally a Linux person, but I have to say: I run Alpine with Sway, and my battery life is nothing compared to a Macbook. It's just another world, it doesn't remotely compare.