I will never understand how an intelligent, opinionated crowd like HN can be so obsessed over Apple's CPU offerings. Buying into the Mac ecosystem is without a doubt subjecting oneself to vendor lock-in. Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky.

> "I will never understand how an intelligent..."

IME intelligent people don't have difficulty understanding that different people want different things and that your computing preferences are not objectively more correct than someone else's.

What kind of vendor lock in are you talking about?? I use Mac and Linux and don’t feel at all locked in by Apple.

Because I like being productive and earning money

No driver problems (well, first party ones at least), good performance and I can still run any software I like.

I do prefer and run Linux on my desktop, and could complain about Apple and Mac OS all day. The level of polish is very inconsistent. But despite everything it's still not as user hostile as Windows got nowadays.

"Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky"

I have yet to buy a Windows machine where Linux works perfectly with no issues whatsoever. My most compatible machine to date needed a USB-C ethernet adapter to get a network connection for more than 10 minutes at a time. So ironically old M series Macs might not be the worst choice given Asahi doesn't need to target every hardware configuration of the last couple decades.

We love these devices, because these are the best devices overall.

An Nvidia GPU involves as much CUDA lock-in as Nvidia can manage, but it's also where the best performance is.

People care about performance.

that doesn't mean it's unimpressive. it's purely a software problem, really.

I call it vendor cushion-in, all my devices are Apple and they work very well, also together.