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Star Labs is making what you're looking for with their StarFighter laptop, although you'll be paying MacBook Pro like pricing for it (and delivery would be in March at the earliest): https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter

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starblabs look great. Great specs, coreboot, support for many linux distros....but I'm still waiting on my starbook mk VI since about last sping. It's frustrating, but I know they've had problems in the supply chain.

I'm happy to support a company like that obviously, but it's still frustrating.

I wish they'd get rid of the DC charging jack. I'd rather have 2 USB C ports

they (starlabs) charge via usb-c and have two usb-c ports.

This does look amazing.

System76 should work with these guys as they are doing what System76 should be doing with their laptops.

No magsafe.

5 years of updates is lower than macOS (I am on 7 on my MBP 2015).

The recent MBPs sport 5 nm ARM and MiniLED display.

Looks like they do a lot of things right though.

Magsafe is patented and will be for a while. Don't hold out too much hope.

Looks like it will expire in 2025, so not too long.

Patents are too damn long in tech. I wish USB-C had shorter magnetic connectors

Just get some of these magnetic attachments for your USB-C [1]. I use them on all my USB gadgets now.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004883987830.html

The MBP is designed and manufactured by the richest company in the world. You'd expect their quality and polish to be better - and on the hardware side it is. On the flip side, the OS/software seems to get worse with each release, markup on storage and memory are absurd and you aren't able to upgrade or repair any components, and you trade any quality of life wins with ever-increasing anti-consumer lock-in/policies... So the trade-off is up to you.

That's 5 years of updates to the firmware. Not the OS. You configure it with something like Ubuntu LTS and you're good until 2032 with regards to OS security updates. And I wouldn't be surprised if the 32.04 LTS ran on it too whereas a comparable MBP will have been dropped by a couple years prior.

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