My M1 Macbook Pro I used at work for several months until the Ubuntu Ryzen 7 7840U P14s w/32GB RAM arrived didn't seem particularly amazing.

The only real annoying thing I've found with the P14s is the Crowdstrike junk killing battery life when it pins several cores at 100% for an hour. That never happened in MacOS. These are corporate managed devices I have no say in, and the Ubuntu flavor of the corporate malware is obviously far worse implemented in terms of efficiency and impact on battery life.

I recently built myself a 7970X Threadripper and it's quite good perf/$ even for a Threadripper. If you build a gaming-oriented 16c ryzen the perf/$ is ridiculously good.

No personal experience here with Frameworks, but I'm pretty sure Jon Blow had a modern Framework laptop he was ranting a bunch about on his coding live streams. I don't have the impression that Framework should be held as the optimal performing x86 laptop vendor.

> That never happened in MacOS

Oh you've gotten lucky then. Or somehow disabled crowdstrike.

That could be because crowdstrike is not inside the XNU kernel anymore:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-supports-...

They happily implement a userland version on macOS, but then claimed that being in the kernel is absolutely necessary on Windows after they disabled all Windows machines using it.