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Four generations into the new platform and there is no answer from anyone else in the industry. Incredible.

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There are both more powerful and more battery efficient offers available.

The Apple ARM laptops are just on an arbitrary point belong the power/efficiency scale.

If it happens to match your needs: great

But it's not like it's ahead of the industry in any way ^^

It's suspicious that your account created 1 day ago and you say there are more powerful and more battery efficient offers available but don't give an example.

P.S. writing to you from a six year old ThinkPad running Linux. I'm not an Apple fanboy. It is my opinion that Apple's products are leagues ahead of the rest of the industry and it's not even close: performance, efficiency, and build quality are incredible.

I switched my work M1 Max with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS Framework 16 running Linux and am happier since.

I guess it depends on the person which computer is better for them.

I wish I could get that option but I'm still waiting for an NZ release :(

I'm torn between the new M4 MBP and a Framework laptop with Linux for my personal computer. Can you share some deciding factors for you? Does it mostly come down to the OS? How is the battery life with the Framework?

Why are you happier exactly?

Intel's Core 5/Core 7/Core 9 are an answer.

I dunno. Four years ago the MacBook M1 Pro was able to compile WebKit nearly as fast as the Mac Pro, and nearly twice as fast as the Intel-based MacBook Pro, and still had 91% battery versus 24% in the Intel-based MacBook Pro. Incredible.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...

But now its four years later

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