> What do we do as Apple users stuck in this ecosystem whose main goal is to extract more money from our pockets?
Leave ... the ... ecosystem.
This is the whole point of things like Asahi Linux. Take advantage of the hardware and escape from the software.
If all the developers who slave over Apple devices spent 10% of their time improving the experience on something else, 24 months later Apple wouldn't have a market.
I left. I got tired of fighting bugs in macOS given that Apple clearly no longer gives a damn about macOS.
I just bought my second Lenovo Carbon X1 after leaving Land-Of-The-Fruit. This one is about $1700 + a Saumsung 4TB SSD. Note: I can actually upgrade the SSD. It has 32GB of RAM for half the price of anything equivalent in macOS. The OLED display is right about the equivalent macOS resolution, and it's a matte display. It has a useful set of ports--a goddamn HDMI port as well as 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A ports.
And Lenovo's external dock actually freakin' works.
Yeah, it probably doesn't get the performance or battery life as an M3. Given that I didn't notice on my previous Lenovo vs an M1/M2, I'm not likely to notice this time either.
And, as a "bonus", I can run an actual Windows install if I absolutely must.
Leave ... the ... ecosystem.
This is the whole point of things like Asahi Linux. Take advantage of the hardware and escape from the software.
If all the developers who slave over Apple devices spent 10% of their time improving the experience on something else, 24 months later Apple wouldn't have a market.
I left. I got tired of fighting bugs in macOS given that Apple clearly no longer gives a damn about macOS.
I just bought my second Lenovo Carbon X1 after leaving Land-Of-The-Fruit. This one is about $1700 + a Saumsung 4TB SSD. Note: I can actually upgrade the SSD. It has 32GB of RAM for half the price of anything equivalent in macOS. The OLED display is right about the equivalent macOS resolution, and it's a matte display. It has a useful set of ports--a goddamn HDMI port as well as 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A ports.
And Lenovo's external dock actually freakin' works.
Yeah, it probably doesn't get the performance or battery life as an M3. Given that I didn't notice on my previous Lenovo vs an M1/M2, I'm not likely to notice this time either.
And, as a "bonus", I can run an actual Windows install if I absolutely must.