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My wishlist for laptops include a thinkpad caliber keyboard, excellent battery life, a great screen, and for the machine to be able to run cool and quiet - either out of the box or through a combination of undervolting and throttling. I wish Framework came a little closer to that ideal. For the time being I put up with macbooks. I'd like to check out ARM thinkpads when Windows ARM is a little more polished, I haven't tried a thinkpad in many years.

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Some might find it silly, but using an HHKB over the existing keyboard solves the issues one might have with non-MacBook keyboards.

It solves the bad keyboard issue, and beyond that the HHKB is genuinely an excellent keyboard. As an added bonus is that you can use the HHKB as your desktop keyboard when the laptop is in clamshell mode. If you really want the Thinkpad nipple, there's always the HHKB Studio, too.

Thanks for the recommendation, these look very nice.

Concur. I've been a Mac laptop person since 2009 because it works as expected all the time. That said, I do a good deal of work via the terminal or IDE's that run on both MacOS, Linux, and Windows. That the laptop is a Mac is neither here nor there for me, it's a stable, well built, reliable platform where I can get things done.

Intel T14 Gen5 works fine: with Windows 11 and the 'Best power efficiency' preset, you'll pretty much forget the thing even has a fan.

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