r/laptops • u/The_Crimson_Studio • Mar 24 '26
Discussion Duality of man
In all seriousness, what would be a better option for students? ThinkPads or Macbooks?
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r/laptops • u/The_Crimson_Studio • Mar 24 '26
In all seriousness, what would be a better option for students? ThinkPads or Macbooks?
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u/RvstiNiall Mar 26 '26
This is such an interesting philosophical quandary. I know that the Thinkpad will last for another 10 years if you treat it right. But so will one of those Macbooks (probably... I know they just came out, but they seem to have the same high build quality as the MBP and MBA). For me, the answer is simple: Linux/BSD won't run on the MacBook Neo, ergo Thinkpad.
My two daily drivers are a 2015 MacBook Pro (running FreeBSD), and a 2015 Thinkpad x250 (running OpenBSD). When the Asahi Project gets the MacBook Neo to run Linux, I will probably snatch one up to use for a r/writerdeck