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.

  • MrLLM@ani.socialOPEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I don’t know about that. I’d like to avoid Tahoe at the moment, so, if apple pulls out an M5 MBA, I won’t be able to get my hands on a brand new M4 MBA with student discount

    • blitzen@lemmy.ca
      1·
      14 days ago

      I know the M4 Air was released with Sequoia, but I’m sure any M4 you bought new would now come with Tahoe. My M4 MacBook Pro bought at the end of the year shipped with Tahoe.

      If Tahoe is a dealbreaker, buying used (not Apple refurbished) is probably your only option, and even that is predicated on finding one not yet upgraded. But honestly I don’t think it should be a dealbreaker; while visually it’s a mess and I’m not thrilled with the overall direction of Apple software, it is the present and the future, and does have some niceties over Sequoia. With Alan Dye gone and Tim Cook on his way out, I have some optimism for the future of the OS.

      The way I see it you’ve got three options: buy the now released M5 new, find a used one running sequoia (unlikely), or find a used model capable of running Linux.

        • blitzen@lemmy.ca
          1·
          14 days ago

          That’s fair. But IMO the negatives of Tahoe don’t merit buying old hardware just to temporarily avoiding using it.

          • MrLLM@ani.socialOPEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            That’s what I was thinking, so that’s why I made the post in first place. But I got a great deal as I stated here, and I don’t think there will be a huge difference between the M4 and M5, specially in a MBA.