While I’m definitely on the same page as you with regards to performance, battery, and a great touchpad, I do think that given we are on Lemmy and a lot of us are what you would call “power-users”, it is worth pointing out that MacOS is terrible to navigate with the keyboard.

As a small example (amongst many others), Macbooks do not come with dedicated home, page up, page down, end keys, and I’ve been using my wife’s M2 Macbook Air for quite a while (over a year), and STILL feel as though I can’t get the same snappy behaviour I can by using a keyboard for most of my navigation.

Once again, of course if people tend to navigate the OS using the touchpad this isn’t as much of a problem, but for folks who swear by the keyboard, you do feel it.

I’m hoping that the second iteration of the snapdragon x elites will be good enough to replace the Macbooks for what I do.

I find myself guilty of this mistake as well. Honestly I think anything higher than x.9 should be avoided due to confusion x)

Sorry for the noob question, but are you able to access your banking apps with GrapheneOS? If so, how?

That’s some mad dedication