Comment by MSFT_Edging

I'm an occasional Mac user, whenever their hardware and software align to be useful.

Right now the m4 airs are a delight in regards to form factor, battery life, performance, and generally they look nice.

I have a powerful processor, enough ram, and a battery to drive it and damnit I want to do work on it.

Right now the world of laptops is dark. Any non-mac laptop running linux will have terrible standby battery life because OEMs have removed classic sleep modes for always-on mac-like sleeps, but without the polish and no way to re-enable the legacy sleep modes.

In a couple years, maybe the AI boom will die down and people will be able to afford RAM again, and maybe non-mac laptops will be nice to use again.