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Mine is a bit old already, the first m1 air, and I haven’t a bad word to say. Although I mostly live in the terminal anyway, zellij, aerospace, alacritty, fresh as my ide, very elaborate sketchybar for ricing and all that. I’ve not yet faced many problems I couldn’t solve via terminal or a temporary boot into the whatever unsafe mode the newer os versions have brought.
The aluminium chassis has been incredible and I can still open the lid with a single finger without needing the other hand. No other laptop I’ve ever tried has been able to manage that, even if it sounds so simple.
But because I already live in a riced up i3-ish environment instead of the actual macos gui, switching to linux is mostly about migrating my personal dotfiles to equivalents I already have set up for a few of my systems at home and various remotes.
So the change won’t be big in impact. Only thing I foresee myself missing is the lid and build quality and battery life
Previous employer gave me an m1 pro and it just lived in a drawer until I quit.
I'm sure some salesrep got a nice nearly new linkedin machine after that.
The hardware is nice to touch but it is unethically designed by assholes who hold you, the device "owner" in complete contempt.