@giffmana
Update on my laptop search journey. - Work: MacBook Air 15" (M2 or M3, soon) - Personal: ZenBook S14 (LunarLake, yesterday) No more ThinkPad; I'll miss the nipple. No MBP, I went to the store to test, and MBPs are fucking bricks, I was shocked! More details below, for the few _really_ interested. My main annoyance with laptops in the last decade has been 1) 2-3h battery life, 2) fan noise, 3) weight. Both these laptops are supposedly absurdly good at all three points. For work, there's no good linux laptop choice this time, so MBA it is, because MBP is way too heavy and bulky; also 15" is the perfect size for me, and it's been forever I haven't had a 15". I'll try Yabai/AeroSpace and maybe Asahi once I get it. For personal, I do really want a linux and something that can play DOTA2. Most typical laptops (lenovo/hp/dell) pale in terms of battery life and weight. I didn't even consider ASUS and ACER as past experience (>10y ago) with them was atrocious, but @ylecun recommended the ZenBook on a previous thread, so I looked, and they seem great: highly portable (1.2kg!), superb build, and solid performance. The 14" size was what made me hesitate. I think 15" is perfect, and used almost exclusively 16" in the last decade. The 14" turns out to be fine so far, but note that I like things small: on my 16" I often set zoom to 80% for webpages. First thing I checked is DOTA, I can finally play on high settings with barely any fan - my old XPS16 with dGPU struggled on low(!). I played a full game on battery AND charged an iphone from the laptop, battery only went down about 20%. Next thing is Linux support. This is currently pretty bad, as this is one of the first laptops with LunarLake chip. Supposedly Kernel 6.12 will have good support, but current Arch is still on 6.11 ; 6.12 is at rc5, so soon. I'll still give it a shot, got some free time next couple days, will report back, but am considering WSL2 if support is really bad. Also, it has a dedicated "Intel NPU" - potentially I'll tinker around with that a bit. Finally, the ZenBook is an absolute beauty. Easily the prettiest laptop I've ever had: