I'm ready for a new laptop and tempted to go back to Macbook Pro now that the new M2s are available...<p>Any similar powered Linux laptops I should look at?<p>It's purely a dev machine.
I bought a Xiaomi RedMiBook Pro 15" 2022 edition last summer. On Aliexpress no less. The machine was a steal at 1.2kEUR.
I bought the maxed out config which is about 1.5k if you buy it e.g. via the Xiamomi shop instead [1].
There is excellent support for all hardware on Linux (and even a ICC profile) in [2]. I run System76's pop!_OS on it. Everything works dandy. The machine is a beast.<p>It has a 3.2k (!) res screen. Only 400nits but I find that's plenty for the lighting conditions I use it under. The case is milled from dark aluminum and is frequently mistaken for a MacBook. The build quality is top.<p>It's a Ryzen 6800H APU with built in Radeon and an NVIDIA GTX2050. It has 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD.<p>It's the first non-Mac I bought in a decade after getting disappointed with macOS in recent years.<p>The only thing that isn't on par is the touchpad on Linux. On Windows it's very close so this is definitely a config issue. I may just have to spend some time with settings.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.xiaomihome.global/xiaomi-laptops/xiaomi-redmibook-15-pro-2022-laptop/" rel="nofollow">https://www.xiaomihome.global/xiaomi-laptops/xiaomi-redmiboo...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/vrolife/modern_laptop">https://github.com/vrolife/modern_laptop</a>