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I’ve been rocking my hackintosh for almost 4 years now. It’s still holding together, but battery life and performance (with battery) are not great, also intel support will be gone soon.

I have to say that I’m not big fan of Liquid Glass redesign, so if I’m getting a new Mac, it’ll be an M4 15” MBA with 512GB and will keep it on Sequoia.

My other option is to move over to Linux (probably Debian), but I’m not confident I’ll be able to find something compelling for a reasonable price with great performance and battery life (mostly because RAM and storage shortage)

Any thoughts on that? On one hand, it’s probably a bad idea to buy a new Mac just to keep it forever on sequoia but I also feel like my laptop will hold me back any time soon.

For a little bit more context: I’m a computer engineering college student, I do programming in different languages, I make heavy use of virtual machines and I like Apple iWork for office related workloads. I have an M1 Mac mini, but I still need a mobile computer.

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[–] MrLLM@ani.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Nothing comes close to the battery life, performance, and formfactor of the MBA. A ThinkPad X1 Carbon might get close, but Linux always struggles with brand new devices. It looks like a base model starts at $1700 (USD) and it's going to perform worse and get worse battery life

I made up my mind and I went to the Apple Store just to check if they still had 15” MBA.

It turned out that they did and were giving them away with a wholesale discount (sorry I’m not sure if that’s the term) plus the student discount I got it from 1519€ to 1219€. I think it was a great deal.