> This is what replaced my thiccpad t520...
I choose this machine, because it was the single machine in the market that could be thin, light, small, very powerfull, extreme QC & build quality.
I do a lot of remote work and demanding task when on the go and i needed very very good battery life, i'm talking above 8 hours of 1080p video editing, 10 hours of coding, 12 hours of broswing and more, nothing in the market could give me this while portable and powerfull.
No, i do not game on it, as i dont game anymore that much, i play like 1-2 hours a week, and thats a good week. With my thiccpad i was carring with me 2-3 extra batteries AND charger, with this i make sure i have at least 7-80% battery...
Coming from linux with all the user power in the system to macos was not that hard, sure it has it quirks same as every other operating system in world expection being TempleOS.
It's the base model, no nano texture display, no fancy shit, just a "bare bone" macbook air m5, which i am very very happy with it, i dont really like apple, but man they improved a lot in the last 6 years.
It's nice that macos is based on unix so working in the terminal is very close with what i am used to.
The notch does not annoy me, for me its something new i guess? Its just there, i had not yet come across to any issue to the macbook that was not user error, but yes macos 26 has some bugs but not majors ones.
Yes, the keyboard is worse than my t520. Why? The keytravel is short, only that. But everything hardware related to it, its very good, and i dont want to sound that i glaze this mac, but its diffrent to anything i had used or come across.
No, i do not find the ecosystem that good as everyone says, i recently switched from android (samsung s22 ultra) to 17 pro. Its just there, i can say its more annoying in some cases, like airdrop does not fucking want to work no matter what.
What i like it stays very cool, and im not talking about what you feel on touch, im talking internally, while video editing in 1080p or 1440p it does not jump above 45 degress and 17W (celsius not freedom units), coding 35 degress and 8W, broswing 25-35 degress 10W, sure if you start playing minecraft it starts skyrocketing to 101 degress and uses 35W but come on its passive cooling and also the graphics are maxxed kinda, the avg fps is 101, i use optifine as i do not trust other mods.
Overall its a great machine, for specific purposes. If you want a productivity machine, powerfull ,efficient, silent, and portabale i guess this can be one of your choises. But you can consider a snapdragon laptop if you want something on arm but keep in mind its still shit on windows and linux. Apple kinda forced devs to make their software work on their SoC so yeah...
> Enough said, i just wanted to share my current portable workhorse and rant about it lol.
> Also fun fact: I USE SPUNK FOR MILK! FUCK OFF!