The next time you buy a laptop, and you don’t want a Mac, it’s likely you want to buy one with a snapdragon CPU. That’s an ARM chip, meaning you get very good battery life (just like the M-series Apple chips). On Snapdragon though you can easily run Windows, and eventually Linux (Linux support is a few months out though).
Agreed, but I hope I don’t need a new laptop for some time. The BEST options, depending on your very specific needs and expectation of lifecycle (do you buy for 2 years, or 5). Eliminate these until you get to the one you can accept (or ignore it entirely—a lot of personal preference goes into this, one size really does not fit all).
1. M3 Macbook Air. 2. Wait ~1 year for Windows-on-ARM to fully normalize 3. Acer or Asus (or maybe Lenovo) Snapdragon X 4. Surface Laptop Snapdragon X 5. Intel laptop 6. Snapdragon plus laptop
The next time you buy a laptop, and you don’t want a Mac, it’s likely you want to buy one with a snapdragon CPU. That’s an ARM chip, meaning you get very good battery life (just like the M-series Apple chips). On Snapdragon though you can easily run Windows, and eventually Linux (Linux support is a few months out though).
Agreed, but I hope I don’t need a new laptop for some time. The BEST options, depending on your very specific needs and expectation of lifecycle (do you buy for 2 years, or 5). Eliminate these until you get to the one you can accept (or ignore it entirely—a lot of personal preference goes into this, one size really does not fit all).
1. M3 Macbook Air.
2. Wait ~1 year for Windows-on-ARM to fully normalize
3. Acer or Asus (or maybe Lenovo) Snapdragon X
4. Surface Laptop Snapdragon X
5. Intel laptop
6. Snapdragon plus laptop