I’ve been rocking my hackintosh for almost 4 years now. It’s still holding together, but battery life and performance (with battery) are not great, also intel support will be gone soon.

I have to say that I’m not big fan of Liquid Glass redesign, so if I’m getting a new Mac, it’ll be an M4 15” MBA with 512GB and will keep it on Sequoia.

My other option is to move over to Linux (probably Debian), but I’m not confident I’ll be able to find something compelling for a reasonable price with great performance and battery life (mostly because RAM and storage shortage)

Any thoughts on that? On one hand, it’s probably a bad idea to buy a new Mac just to keep it forever on sequoia but I also feel like my laptop will hold me back any time soon.

For a little bit more context: I’m a computer engineering college student, I do programming in different languages, I make heavy use of virtual machines and I like Apple iWork for office related workloads. I have an M1 Mac mini, but I still need a mobile computer.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’m in the exact same boat looking for a replacement for my macbook pro M1 that had a screen failure. Was looking at the MB air with a 15" screen and the best performance possible for photo/illustrative design purposes. Not happy with the screen on the MBA but portability is also a thing I miss.

    I may be wrong but didn’t Apple introduced a specific Liquid Glass section under System Settings > Appearance, allowing users to switch from the default “Clear” mode to a “Tinted” mode.

    Another way is within the Accessibility pane. By navigating to System Settings > Accessibility > Display and enabling Reduce Transparency.

    Also I hear that the app OnyX, the version designed for macOS Tahoe, includes a dedicated toggle to disable Liquid Glass elements that may persist even after reducing transparency.

    Personally I don’t expect that apple will stoically force this on us without toggles to tweak it in the future, due to user pushback on liquid glass, I’d expect there to be workarounds in Tahoe and future os rollouts.

    • MrLLM@ani.socialOPEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I’d expect there to be workarounds in Tahoe and future os rollouts.

      Yeah, that’ll probably be the case, I’m quite used to having third-party software to add things I need that apple hasn’t added.

      Although, I’ll probably miss some features like the old System Preferences or the LaunchPad.