I’m in the market for a Linux friendly ultralight laptop to check web apps and run terminal, nothing fancier then that. Do any cheap systems exits these days? I was looking at a chrome book but apparently the mediatek chip doesn’t play nicely with FOSS.
Any thoughts?
The ultimate couch laptop will be an M1 MacBook Air as it has no fans and a suped up phone chip so it doesn’t heat. It also has amazing battery life… But it’s still pretty expensive and it cannot be repaired. Otherwise old MacBooks should be pretty good because most of the Intel models used relatively low end chips because their thermal design was so limited
He also said Linux-friendly, lol.
Afaik the M1Air is fully functional for this use case. I think only small things like the fingerprint sensor and deeper processor features are missing
Old macbooks are honestly great in terms of linux support
I recentry tried an M2 Air and was just amazed how lightweight it was.