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I own a Carbon X1 and it's one of my favorite laptops ever. I work exclusively on Linux, and detest Apple and the Walled Garden strategy in all their consumer products. That strategy is ridiculous for developer-related product, and I dislike that MacOS is hard to customize compared to Linux.

I would still cancel and order an M1 instead. It's that impressive of an upgrade.

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Yeah, I feel the same. I'm about to buy a Thinkpad T14 AMD Pro 4750U and I know that the M1 is superior, but in the end I've never been interested in Apple gear, and I don't feel like changing that viewpoint now. I'm waving the white flag, but I'm not crossing sides.

Hopefully we'll start seeing Intel / AMD chips that can compete with the M1. Otherwise, I might buy an M1 laptop and run Linux on it.

My workstation will still be Linux, however for a laptop, the new Macbook Air is the new favorite.

As much as I detest Apple's business strategies, this is a remarkable achievement for them. Never thought I'd buy another Apple laptop.

Same. I was about to order a X1, then the new Apple machines hit and switched to an M1 Air. Just the battery life itself is a good enough reason.

I say that as someone who has been very critical of Apple for the last 5 years too. Looks like they care about their laptops again.

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