> namely getting software running out of the box

Why do you mean? The lack of a package manager?

> and the mouse and touchpad lag is atrocious.

I don't know which timeline you're commenting from, but as someone that works with both Lenovo and Apple laptops, there is simply no comparison. The Lenovo's trackpad borders on unusable. In fact it is unusable when booting/waking from 'sleep'. It literally has to warm up! I use an MX Master 3S with both, and it works fantastically well connected via Bluetooth on both platforms - surprising so for the Lenovo.

This would be great arguments against Macbooks, if any of these were slightly true. Like "touchpad lag is atrocious" wtf? This is utterly false. And "getting software running out of the box", what are you even talking about?

None of this comment makes any sense at all. MacBooks can be bought with tons of software preinstalled (or did you mean it's missing apt-get? Try brew). And the mouse/touchpad are as good as it gets.

MacPorts is a better alternative to Homebrew. More packages, better design, and created by an ex-Apple engineer who was also behind FreeBSD’s ports system.

Parallels runs Windows 11 & Debian wonderfully in my experience for running anything I can't in MacOS. If someone could just get a good port of Android running well on an M1 it would be the ideal solution for me.

> Android running

sounds like you’re consumer type of user.

i dabble in embedded development and more often than not oem release drivers and tool chain for Linux and Windows, and those drivers are too low level to be emulated properly if at all.

It depends on the domain. Most scientific software, on the other hand, works out of the box on Linux and Mac, and if you want to get it to build and run on Windows, well, you're most likely going to be the first one so good luck if there are any issues as the authors won't bother with non-unixy compatibility.

You could try running Waydroid in Asahi - that's theoretically possible, at least.