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I agree. I've been meaning to buy an Apple laptop to develop on for years now and constantly kept putting it off; first because of quality concerns that have no place in a device with such a price tag and now because of this.

If only there was a Linux-compatible laptop with specs similar to the M1. The only thing that comes to mind are Thinkpads and those things are ugly as hell.

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While not ARM powered, Framework laptops are worth a look and what I ultimately have moved to

Framework looks interesting, even though the CPU is not as good as the M1. Pity it's only available in the US.

Not really similar specs to M1, but: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14.

I use PureOS on old Macbook Air for casual browsing with Hardened Firefox and Emacs for RSS/Org-mode and it runs very smoothly.

Moved office to Arch/Manjaro, Win VM’s in isolation for design tasks.

M advancements of Apple are not so critical when considering cost per performance. There is no denying their advancements, but who knows what’s going on inside this architecture.

Some will say that I am overeating, but since reading Trusting trust (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...) I shifted my mind towards Raptor Computers direction. The prices are high but paying for open hardware is smart investment in the current climate.

If you like security through isolation, I recommend to try https://qubes-os.org.

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