I just buy second hand thinkpad for half of that if I want a good enough one. Recently bought a Thinkpad x390 for my significant other for 170€ with a brand new battery. Works well enough, is small, light and quiet, has a decent keyboard and fullhd screen. Very little battery drain when suspended. Brand new laptops at twice that price offer a much crappier experience.
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> Lenovo manages to do sleep/wake fine in Linux almost as well as Apple in my experience and I sleep/wake my Lenovo laptop regularly -- this is across two different models I have used so far (X1 and X390). I'd rate my OpenBSD X1 as not terrible too. Not as smooth as MacBook but adequate.
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Ditto. My Thinkpad X1 and X390 both have reasonably reliable sleep/wake under Debian.
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I've found Thinkpads to be trash for the past few years. Could be bad batches, but I sent back my X390 three times for warranty repairs and its replacement T14gen3 once so far.
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Its such a hard comparision though. You are running the newest of the newest. My Lenovo Thinkpad X390 which i'm sitting on right now for a while, still has ~8h left to go. Chrome with 30 tabs, intellij etc. open and running. I do assume the M1 is doing a great job, don't get me wrong, but i would like to see a more objective comparison. Personally speaking, the most interesting thing for me to see is that Apple now put a very strong SoC on all its models. From Air to Pro, with a relative good price point (as long as you don't upgrade anything...)