I got a Mac Studio recently, but my huge hesitation is that the CPU's TOTALLY suck lol. I only switched because I was genuinely sick of windows. And windows must have had a bug, because it kept hijacking my Chrome session with Edge EVERY Reboot.
But, now that the M3's have raytracing, maybe they'll suck less. Unfortunately, some areas, mac has definitely fallen behind on (like Aero Snap, we need magnet on Mac OS)
Ran x86 apps with near-native speeds
*Still beat all of its competitors in benchmarks back in 2021 when I got it
Did all of this without a fan
is extremely compact and lightweight, fitting in every bag I have
well made with a good keyboard, trackpad, and screen
Will last me for years
Do me a favor, look at what 13" laptops were for sale in late 2021. Find any of them that competed on price and performance. The M1 MacBook air was one of the best received apple laptops, specifically because it was unbeatable at that price.
The only negative was it only running macOS, but Apple allowed 3rd party firmware to be installed. Now mine uses coreboot to boot into fedora 39. The only thing that doesn't work is deep sleep and the speakers, with good progress being made by the development team.
There's plenty of criticism for Apple and their obscene pricing, but the one laptop purchase I never regretted was this one.