Lifelong Mac user here, enjoyed the thread on what distros other hexbears use. I'm looking to preserve privacy a bit more by moving away from a walled garden. I'd like to move to using a linux distro at home, but am curious about the hardware to use. (Should add here that I'm a software engineer...my code isn't that hardware intensive but I mean I have to run an IDE so that can burn a lot of cycles.) Something I really like about AppleSi is the battery life + performance...it feels really unappealing to buy a clunky intel or amd laptop and get worse battery life. Any suggestions for hardware to look for? (I'd prefer to buy something second hand.)
I'm running Fedora on a T14 an old job never arranged to collect. It took linux better than an older HP I put Mint on.
There are plenty of place online selling refurbed thinkpads, and plenty of smaller people on Facebook marketplace too. You could start with a cheap thinkpad and go from there.
The top of the line for Linux laptops is the Framework, but you'll probably be buying new unless you luck out and you'll be looking at Apple prices