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My problem is just that I've been spoiled by the MacBook air.

All of the power I need, fanless, insane battery life, unix shell.

I know I can put Asahi on it, but I also know there are still issues around webcam/graphics drivers (I spend a lot of time on video calls)

If there was something with the form factor of a MacBook Air I could put Linux on, and it would run as well, I wouldn't look back.

The closest is the Framework laptop, amazing bit of kit, but still a fan, and worse battery life.

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A reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/150cx0y/arm_...) mentioned the: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/ and https://www.robo-kala.com/computer

Not what I'm looking for personally in computing so no idea if either are what you are looking for.

A laptop that's fanless? Is that real? Or do they call it fanless because it's very quiet? The wikipedia article for fanless design redirects to quiet which to me suggests some people use the term in this way.

No there’s really no fan. It can throttle performance if it starts to overheat but I’ve only seen that happen when I was sitting outside.

The air makes do with but a heatsink, no fans. After all, the same chip works just fine in fanless iPads.

Already confirmed but it’s legit one of the best features of all time: a completely silent portable computer.

Second-best is a mobile-first portable computer, that you don’t have to worry about having it plugged in except for an hour or so every ~day of usage.

These things don’t really show up in any kind of stats but I can say that they change the definition of computing for humans (vs. data centre servers, etc)

I don’t think my Lenovo X13s has a fan. I’ve never heard it.

A fan is a weird thing to be hung up on. This sounds like a clear example of moving the goal post. For what it's worth, I've heard my FW 13's fan kick on only a couple of times.

Personally I find it like going from an automatic gearbox back to a manual one

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