Fix What Ain't Broke
My last Fruity purchase was a '12 Mini. Before that it was an '09 15" MBP. Both, while long in the tooth, still work.
Noteable about these two pieces of hardware is that storage and memory were user-replaceable.
Would I buy from theme these days? Sorry, not spending $2K+ on a machine I can't work on.
My last "big" purchase was one of FrameWork's 13" Intel models. Cost around what the MBP had. Came with a screwdriver. It's my road machine, and a great tool.
The daily driver is an OpenCore mutt with Gigabyte/Intel/Corsair/Samsung/nVidia parts, 128G of memory, 2TB of main nVME storage.
That, combined with two 28" ASUS 4K screens, would cost an obscene amount of money if purchased through Apple. Assuming they even had such a configuration.
And as things stand now with them, newer kit would never be upgradable.
Am still on Ventura and know eventually I'll have to make a decision on getting away from the Fruity OS. (Them deciding to lock down my system files is just plain stupid, and almost enough reason to switch by itself. I shouldn't have to mount system dirs in my own user space, make changes, then bless a snapshot just to put the latest compiled version of bash in /bin. Sudo is there for a reason. Sure, they *say* it's for "user safety", but it's my machine, not theirs. What's the sense of becoming root if you don't have full control over the bits?)
The Framework runs Fedora. Have a WinDoze machine, too, mostly just to keep a hand in for supprorting folks that use that OS. (The Framework has a W10 VM, but I hardly ever run it). The home NAS is Debian now that TrueNAS has switched away from BSD. There's a dev machine with no X still on CentOS that really needs to be swapped out for Rocky or Alma. Voluminous Free Time awaits that chore.
Much though I don't like software subscriptions, Adobe's products have become even more amazing over the years. When they finally port to 'nix, my Mac days may be over. Out of nostalgia, the only thing I may come to miss is that old chestnut, AppleScript. I still use a bash script written years ago that tells it to talk to Adobe for some doc automation. Will need a new workflow.