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Okay I'm a bit lost by the current laptop market between the heaps of bullshit companies are putting us through.

What I need is something decently powerful with the great battery life you find in ARM-based CPUs like Snapdragon and Apple Silicon chips.

I want the lightweight durable shit like Macbook Air you know, something I can realistically use everywhere.

I'm open to both Windows and MacOS because both are cringe, unfortunately I can't have Linux on it for reasons. (Don't worry I have it on my desktop). But I still can't decide whose the lesser evil, especially since all ARM Windows are boasting AI bullshit and I hate it I'm never gonna use that shit EVER anyway and I'm afraid I'm just paying a premium for their marketing bullshit.

Obviously Lenovo and Qualcomm are eyeing me for xigma-male reasons but Asus Zenbooks are looking kinda cool

But ffs Snapdragon X CPUs come in three tiers and for some reason it's hard to find the highest end (called "Elite") where I live (Europe) and I have no idea if I really need one for music production (Reaper) and coding (Godot Engine)

It's so fucking complicated screm-a aaaa

Thanks in advance for you precious help

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[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your only option if you don’t intend to use a very peculiar and limited set of software on it or to write your own from the most terry Davis scratch imaginable is a macbook air or pro.

The m1 air is the cheap option, but for just 3-4 times more than the secondhand price of an m1 air you can get this years m4 air with a bunch of cores and ram. Don’t buy upgrades to the ssd on anything unless you know in specific articulable terms why you need it. Usbc/lightning are plenty fast.

All you will likely need is a base model with 16gb of ram.

What’s your budget and I can actually make a recommendation instead of just broad generalizations?

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Well turns out, the store I went to had a massive deal for M2 16GB RAM macbook air so I went for it and I must say that's a pretty little thing so thanks for confirming my intuition