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I don’t really care about the OS. I want a beefy laptop with a good keyboard and trackpad, long battery life, and a crisp screen. Preferably very silent, bonus points for a clean design. That’s the value proposition of a MacBook.


There are many laptops with similar specs that you can run Linux on, and for less money


Not really. The only thing that comes close IMHO are the top shelf Lenovo X1 Carbon, but even those come with several caveats compared to MacBooks, and the M4/M5 chips are ridiculously powerful.

I’m open for suggestions though


HP G1A Ultra?


I get it. I wish there were more great laptop makers. I had a maxed out 16in M2 Max MacBook Pro, now I have an 15in M3 MBA. I also have a maxed out HP G1A Ultra running Fedora. They’re all excellent.


I also care about my desktop supporting consumer electronics without having to waste an afternoon debugging Bluetooth drivers every two weeks


Thankfully, it has been many years since I had to debug Bluetooth drivers (or anything of that ilk) on Linux.




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