I have the same experience here with my MacBook Air M1 from 2020 with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. After three years, I upgraded to a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro, 36GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage. I use this as my main machine with 2 displays attached via a TB4 dock.
I'm working in IT and I get all new machines for our company over my desk to check them, and I observed the exact same points as the OP.
The new machines are either fast and loud and hot and with poor battery life, or they are slow and "warm" and have moderate battery life.
But I had no business laptop yet, ARM, AMD, or Intel, which can even compete with the M1 Air, not to speak of the M3 Pro! Not to speak about all the issues with crappy Lenovo docks, etc.
It doesn’t matter if I install Linux or Windows. The funny point is that some of my colleagues have ordered a MacBook Air or Pro and use their Windows or Linux and a virtual machine via Parallels.
Think about it: Windows 11 or Linux in a VM is even faster, snappier, more silent, and has even longer battery life than these systems native on a business machine from Lenovo, HP, or Dell.
Well, your mileage may vary, but IMHO there is no alternative to a Mac nowadays, even if you want to use Linux or Windows.
install linux, get vmware pro for free and install win 11 in a VM. VMWare emulates TPM so it will run like a charm. Only thing you need is 8Gigs or so extra ram.
plus you have the benefits of running windows in a VM. No backup problems, snapshot funcionality, etc etc.
works absolute fine for me
Here is a good example of someone who shies away from responsibility for himself and others.
2 years time for what? To build something with other people? A partner, family, children?
Nope, just doing what brings him fun or fulfillment or whatnot...
I'm not saying it's bad to take care of yourself from time to time. But as a father of 5, I can definitely say that the best and most instructive moments in my life were definitely the ones where it wasn't about me but about people who were important to me.
And the money issue that most people seem to be talking about here:
Go to work and earn money. That's life. It always has been. If people would only do what fulfills them, there would be no sewer workers or garbage collectors. Whenever you take advantage of a developed society, you always have a duty to give something back to it.
If there is not Time enough after a 8 hour shift to to what you want, you have a serious Problem.
I have more than enough trouble to tuch any buttons in an fancy ui which is changing after every software-update. you have to search them, then you have to touch them correctly, all while the car is shaking or whatever. And all that while you have better use for your eyes in keeping it straight out of the car and observing the traffic outside.
Physical buttons can be "feeled". In the dark, when you know where they are and your muscle-memory got used to their position any you can keep your eyes ot in the traffic.
I love RPN!
I got used to it while my Engineer-Studies in Germany, around 1992.
I got an HP 48SX an it was a hard time to really understand this RPN.
But when you checked it, it was boosting my Math-skills. Because to work properly with RPN you MUST understand what you are doing. it's the exact mimic of calculating with pen and paper. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are doomed.
And so i have to understand what i was doing, which was very supportive to learn math the right way!
By the way, the most funny part of using aa RPN machine was the fact thats Students which wantes to lean my Calculator gave it right back after trying to use the thing the algebraic way.
Is there a "humen right" or something that says: NO ONE SCHOUL HAVE LESS THAN 16 GIGS!
A Pro(!) Machine which costs 4.000 Bucks with M3 Max, 36 Gigs and 1TB of SSD and ist used for 3 years or so costs 112 Bucks a month. For an absolute powerhouse which is doing Desktop-class Worstation-Performance on the go! And for a machine i am working on 8 hours a day and earn my money!
And as a Pro who has to buy a 112$/month machine you should have paid this thing in one or two hours work per month.
As a hobyist - well, it's a hobby! Buy whatever you can afford.
you dont't organize eating, sleeping, shtting, loving,...
Did you ever forgot to eat or hug your beloved one and organize a birthday party for your wife / children / whoever?
so why do you want to "organize" the other aspects of your life?
The only things i need to push me forward in the important aspects of my life are values*.
The values are working like a compass and pushing me fully "from self" in the right directions.
If one value is punctuality then you will find a natural way to reach this value.
If the Value is your own and it is real, then you will find various ways to reach it.
So go and look out for the real important values in your life. If you need "lists" or "organisation tricks" to reach goals, then, maybe, these goals are not your own goals.
I'm working in IT and I get all new machines for our company over my desk to check them, and I observed the exact same points as the OP.
The new machines are either fast and loud and hot and with poor battery life, or they are slow and "warm" and have moderate battery life.
But I had no business laptop yet, ARM, AMD, or Intel, which can even compete with the M1 Air, not to speak of the M3 Pro! Not to speak about all the issues with crappy Lenovo docks, etc.
It doesn’t matter if I install Linux or Windows. The funny point is that some of my colleagues have ordered a MacBook Air or Pro and use their Windows or Linux and a virtual machine via Parallels.
Think about it: Windows 11 or Linux in a VM is even faster, snappier, more silent, and has even longer battery life than these systems native on a business machine from Lenovo, HP, or Dell.
Well, your mileage may vary, but IMHO there is no alternative to a Mac nowadays, even if you want to use Linux or Windows.