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As someone who replaced a 2014 MacBook Pro with a system 76 oryx pro. The oryx does get warmer and has terrible battery life, but mine is currently 4 years and and working fine. It’s significantly faster than the mac (it’s newer) and can play games (it has a fairly decent video card). You can do unreal development on it.

A more apt comparison would be that MacBook with a pangolin amd 5600? machine. It’s much better on battery, has the same ports. It’s been my daily driver work machine for almost a year. I’m not going back to Mac or windows if I can help it.

The 2015 MacBooks were the greatest apple machines, but I doubt they’ll get any support in a couple years

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The M1 MacBook Pro is the best Mac made since the turn of the century.

Hear hear.

I have a Macbook Pro M1 Max. I upgraded from a 2015 MBP, which had previously been one of my all-time favorite Apple laptops (and I've had cough a lot).

The MBP M1 Max - to my surprise - destroyed the 2015 on virtually every level.

This is my current "from my cold dead hands" machine.

Pricepoint: $2,499.00 for 16 inch MBP, M2, 12-Core CPU, 19-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage (which is very small storage, and 1Tb starts at $2699).

This probably goes without saying, but I feel it needs to be said anyway: 16GB must be a joke by the market segmentation folks in Cupertino. I can just barely do comfortable development with the 32GB version. If docker was native, mayyyybe 16 would be almost fine…

> 16GB must be a joke by the market segmentation folks in Cupertino.

Isn't Microsoft still selling laptops with only 4GB of RAM?

For 2500? Nope.

Ever heard of ZRAM under Linux? KVM settings with RAM deduplication?

The M1 Max MacBook is the best computer I've ever owned, period. I upgraded to it from a 2012 MBP. The hardware is top-notch (pun intended).

I switched from Mac to Surface in 2017, and was moderately happy. I bought an M1 air when they came out, it’s essentially a different kind of product.

Surface and M1 Macs aren’t even in the same universe of utility.

> It’s much better on battery

This is not my experience. At best I'd get a few hours. If I'm using the GPU? An hour or so.

The system76 amd computers “pangolin” don’t have a separate gpu. Battery life is good to great, I’ve easily gotten 6 hours. New ones even better.

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