Yeah, I figured. When waiting for lsp autocompletes in emacs, my entry level M1 MacBook with no gccjit is orders of magnitudes faster than my almost maxed out Lenovo with emacs and GCCjit.

The difference is so stark that I cannot bear to autocomplete on type on the Lenovo machine, it lags too much and frequently locks up.

My thinkbook g2 14 are is almost the same speed as m1 macbook and runs linux without any issue. It has "only" 9 hours of battery in my usecase, but that's completely fine by me.

I can't complain. But can't compare it to the M1. I had a 2020 MBPro and am currently using a XPS 13 with maxed out specs.

The camera on the XPS is some leagues below. The microphone had driver issues from the start and it cost me two days for a software workaround.

Other than that I am in every way more happy. Keyboard, track pad and resolution. Performance even with crappy corporate spy-and crapware is definitely way better.

I thought I would miss the Mac more. Not looking back once the mic was fixed.

Speakers. Apple finally fixed laptop speakers. Nobody else has figured out how to copy it yet. :/

OK. Not my use case. I have never really listened that intensely.

But totally understand when the milage varies.

I saw your blogpost [1] mentioning how the iPhone 12 is likely your last. Have you given any thought since then to what your next smartphone would be? Or if you still use smartphone at all?

[1]https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/

I already don't put a SIM in my phone; I use a dumbphone for GSM.

I will likely begin using Lineage OS or Graphene. I'll begin testing soon and will probably post what I end up doing, either on my blog or the bbs.

Have you considered Purism and Fairphone or are their specs too underwhelming to consider?

With regards to your laptop, does not being able to use Mac-specific development tools (XCode, etc.) interfere with your work in any way or do you just limit the work you take to ones that are friendlier to Linux?

I run macOS on some of my laptops, connected to the internet only via a VPN router on which I have root and can filter traffic.

Rarely do I need to do macOS-specific stuff though.

Laptops with an "s"? How many do you have and how many do you carry on your person? When you say you run MacOS on your laptops, do you mean as a VM or on Apple hardware? Did you keep the M1 laptop you blogger about or did you send it back?

Nothing quite like apple. The step down is short enough not to stumble though :)