Phones have less configurability, they sell more, and colors seem more important.
I've never owned an iPhone, but if I did, it would be a sweet luxury to be able to colour match the phone to the mac. Orange on orange, orange on purple, purple on green. iPads can do it and they're practically useless e-waste
But, I don’t feel totally corrected since that laptop only has one binary choice besides color. It’s 256GB w/o Touch ID or 512GB w/ Touch ID.
Linux in a VM would work with the usual caveats. Periphery like the built-in webcam most likely won't work. Getting codecs and DRM to run will be pain and you'll be back to use macOS for that quickly (but that's just standard pain of ARM Linux).
Touch ID is the least of the problems, but the other two are more serious.
Valid. USB-C displays are on the horizon, the rest will take significant time (and might never materialize, it's difficult to reverse engineer).
> Because I don't like MacOS
Then spending thousands on modern MacBook will be a subpar experience, no matter how you do it. But yes, Linux will run OK inside a VM on a MacBook.
But I think they are comparing the wrong values, as Xcode 26 seems to run the benchmark slower than Xcode 16
I used to run a lot of local models on my mbp - mainly stt, tts, embeddings and diffusion models - and small LLMs used for utility purposes - but stopped. It saves time in the long run to run those models on target architecture from the get go - which in most cases is nvidia/cuda - rather than test and tweak on metal, and then switch to cuda for prod - and experience weird and subtle differences and regressions. I don't think it makes much sense to develop anything (other than hobby projects for home use) on mlx atm.
I really hate how they price things and hide their profit in sneaky ways now.
