alt Hacker NewsGiven that this is your stance and demands for laptop hardware I have to assume that you have never once participated in the laptop market prior to the M1 releasing?
That’s the only way your unrealistic expectations make sense.
Of course, people have been parroting that about Linux on laptops for over a decade. I never understood it, since I’ve never had any significant issues with Linux on my laptops.
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raw_anon_1111 • last Saturday at 5:01 PM
Yes and I also had a flip phone before the iPhone came out and a 90 pound CRT before large CRTs got affordable.
In fact my first computer was a 1Mhz Apple //e with 128KB of RAM.
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carlosjobim • last Saturday at 5:16 PM
Battery life was always better on Macs, along with a bunch of other things.
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Indeed nothing other than being the only device that dropped connections on some of my routers, no hardware video decoding no matter what tips from Linux forums I tried, OpenGL 3.3 when the card supported OpenGL 4.1....
And when during 2024 I looked for a replacement after it died, I was so lucky that I got one with an UEFI that refused to load whatever distro I tried from SSD, while having no issues loading the same, if it was on external box over USB.