gave asahi on m3 a whirl the other day. even without true GPU support, it seems fine for my day-to-day of research in a browser, writing in emacs, etc. with the caveat that llvmpipe chews through battery life. i was getting estimates of about six hours, which is an incredible delta from macOS. i’m curious to see how this improves over time, but also, it seems like my perception of the macbook air’s utility has flip-flopped. before i thought it would be great to leverage the things i like about linux in the best Arm laptop available to me. compact, high-res display, excellent battery life; hell yeah. “macbook air without macos” sounds great. now i can get longer battery life with a display whose proportions i prefer that i can use when there’s more than a flickering candle in a corner and be more comfortable typing if i use the framework laptop, but i miss out on the “i really just need this fucking zoom call in my browser to go off without a hitch” of macOS. “macbook air without macos” sounds kinda bad. (this is not an endorsement of the framework laptop—i can’t update the BIOS, which might be a good thing considering the number of bugs their updates have introduced, and there are so many other weird or annoying things i simply wouldn’t tolerate if i had more money. which i wouldn’t spend on either of these laptops now because fuck these companies.)