i need a laptop that's essentially a macbook air, but with linux on it. half-developed options like asahi don't cut it. features i'm looking for are:
>ryzen apu
>long battery life
>upgradeable ram and ssd
>usb-c charge port
what are my options?
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none, bite the bullet and get a MacBook Air if you want a thin laptop with long battery life and usb c
i can't install linux on it. i want to move away from macOS
>can't
you can, it's just half-baked with weird caveats
still good battery life, though
Same here, I have an intel macbook air, and it would make a fantastic linux machine, but I can't install it.
Filtered
it's basically impossible though.
this. late Intel macs are FRICKED. Apple Silicon macs at least have Asahi
Late Intel Macs are a T2, with an x86 coprocessor.
what you're saying is that you want a new Thinkpad that looks like a macbook
wait for Thinkpad t14 gen 5
sounds like framework and hp elitebook
framework
too expensive and i don't like the screen's aspect ratio
>i don't like the screen's aspect ratio
3:2 is king, op is a gay
> i don't like the screen's aspect ratio
Based.
This or a Dell XPS, I think they ship those with Linux installed, at least in the US
>Dell
>Linux
WUT
I love the idea, but I'm not paying more than 1k for a lappy toppy
That's for the 16" one, the 13" one is cheaper and more comparable to a macbook air. Although the battery life sucks, at least for the 12th gen i5 running fedora.
I'll stick with my latitude 5300 until 2030
what you want doesn't exist yet
HP elitebooks probably. I've never used one before, but I've been looking into them because I wanna upgrade from my current laptop and I want a business laptop with a metal chassis, which I think only elitebooks have.
i got one
it's nice, full aluminum body except keyboard and screen bezels, ips screen, can replace ram and ssd.
what's complete bullshit: no undervolting, cannot overclock ram.
I don't particularly care about performance tweaking so it sounds like a good deal for me then, thanks for the input. Which gen version do you have btw?
it's the old g5, first ryzen gen
845 G8 here, good shit, proper Zen 3, glass touchpad, solid build, excellent upgradability, extremely quiet, very meh battery life
Top-tier linux support but that's cause the 845 G8 is also what the HP Dev One basically was
Lenovo Z13 Chinkpad?
Your best bet would be a 2015 Macbook Pro. You upgrade the SSD but not the RAM, it caps at 16gb. You can install Linux on it.
Other than that a Huawei MateBook are as close to a MacBook clone you'll find aesthetically. Decent config options too, no idea on battery life though.
>what are my options?
One option is to stop treating us like your personal shopping assistants and learn to use a search engine
Vivobook/Zenbook
>i am a picky moron
Shut up
Sorry anon, Macbooks (especially Airs) are still in a class of their own. I never want to buy a laptop with a fan again.
Maybe we'll see some competition when Windows On ARM becomes semi-popular.
Just buy a MacBook Air and run Linux in a VM. I’ve been doing it on my work laptop for over a year and it works fine.
M chips can only run certain ARM distros, and none of the best ones.
> none of the best ones.
It can run nixos
use UTM, it runs ubuntu and debian natively
Fedora runs natively. Junk like Arch run, but I'm not sure there are issues with Arch.
https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook
Buy a macbook so you can use macos to emulate windows emulating linux
> >ryzen apu
> >long battery life
>Linux
Forget about this. My Thinkpad with 7840u and nixos lives at best for 5-6 hours.
Even YouTube would eat your battery and spin fan, as while playing 1080p 30 fps video, power consumption is about 8-12 watts.
You can get around 8 hours if all you'd do is browsing plain html and edit code in vim without pluggins, but under any normal workload it won't live more than 6hrs
Youtube kills battery on every single device. The Macbook Air M2 only gets 8-9 hours of Youtube, a Chromebook that can get 13 hours from browsing gets 8 hours of youtube play time.
Maybe look at the Lemur Pro
I'm thinking about getting a Thinkpad L15 Gen 4. It's not the smallest/lightest of the laptops, but it's portable enough, is AMD-based, RAM+SSD are upgradable and has USB-C charge port. Plus, it's budget friendly.
Find an older intel mac and put linux in it that way? I use linux on an old 2015 imac.
You have all the requirements of a Google search here.
I love my hp envy x360, still has 2 usb as well as a full size hdmi, too bad the hinges can go to shit but I think as long as you dont really use the tablet mode you should be fine anon
x86 and Linux are not made for efficiency in mind. It's what it is. If you want Linux and efficiency, you're buying an ARM chromebook. I use one with a Mediatek MT8183. It was $67. The battery life is great, it's fanless, and never heats up. It's like a poor-mans M1 MBA in those ways. The downside is that it's an ARM chromebook, so you can barely do anything on it that doesn't work on Chrome. You get a text editor, file manager, photo viewer, Chrome, Google Docs, webcam, "terminal, calculator, and the App Store, which is just mobile apps that don't work properly on ChromeOS.
>It was $67
OP is asking for a Linux Macbook, money is not the problem here
Are you bots or just non-white ESL's? Chromebookgays always shill their poorgay setup like this, on the merit of cost like a third worlder pajeet mexican or brazilian, you don't even shill the Chromebooks IQfy might like, like the Lenovo C13
nmp
Then leave, you have no business being here.
Have you tried using chromebrew?
I looked at it and tbh I can't be bothered.
framework or I guess look into some of the tuxedo laptops, they're pretty high-end if I recall. Asus and Lenovo also ship some of their laptops with Linux if I recall correctly.
IIRC they have stupid random issues because they simply don't have the manpower to get every little bug and optimize it. This is why Macs and Chromebooks are so seamless. They have practically infinite resources.
Just build an ultra SFFPC, carry it around in your backpack with a 15" 4k portable monitor.
Unironically just Bootcamp Linux on Mac.
Ctrl+F "Zenbook"
Thinkpad nano
dell xps
hp spectre
you can run zorin 17.1 pro and make it look like mac os
chuwi minibook x
why would you 'need' linux? serious question, because it seems that you could easily install linux on some other box and just remote into it from the mac to do whatever you need
Framework
>laptop
u idiot
I Like Samsung's laptops
I have a gen 2, it's up to gen 4 now
14 inch option exists
Consider a Chromebook with Linux.