After getting M1 Macbook Air my Thinkpad T480s with Windows sits mostly unused. I can't imagine going back to not passively cooled and not dead silent laptop now. I probably will get T14 whatever gen eventually for Windows work, but hopefully not yet.
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#12My work laptops have always been Dells...
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#13ThinkPad X250 and FreeBSD13.1-RELEASE with pkg's
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#14This might be more interesting/easier to interpret as a poll if you can still edit that.
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#15Dell vostro whatever one has the 12 gen i7 and 3050ti
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#16Macbook pro at work because it’s what all my colleagues use
Thinkpad running mint for my personal machine
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#17Thinkpad t480s with Ubuntu. I'll give the whole experience a 8/10.
Speakers and mic are really bad for the price.
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#18Macbook Air M1 (personal)
Macbook Pro M1 (work)
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#19MacBook Pro. Build quality is amazing, but macOS is far far behind Windows.
OSX is certainly far behind - because it's ancient history - but macOS isn't.
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#20Primary computer is a desktop (since going full remote): ubuntu on repurposed gaming rig. I'm really happy with how well this computer works. As such, it's taken some of the pressure off having a perfect laptop.
Laptops:
Dell XPS 13 with ubuntu (preconfigured with ubuntu from Dell) -- has been an incredibly steady machine for years. I bought the framework laptop, installed ubuntu, but never got around to tweaking it to work as well as the Dell. So even though the framework is new, hardware better in every way it just sits on a shelf.
I also use newer thinkpad for work with windows -- it's fine I guess.