I've gotten too used to the silent Mac Laptops. Struggling to find an equally silent laptop I can use for Linux (and buy in NZ). Why does Apple have to make awesome hardware and also be a horrible company. Distros that work on Mac hardware are too experimental right now, don't recommend them. I know all about them. You're wasting the limited amount of typing you have in this life.
@grumpygamer For Christmas I bought an Asus Vivobook S14 OLED with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. The only real downside is that the 32 GB RAM is soldered, so it can't be upgraded. The performance is quite respectable even with power save mode enabled, and the fans — except during gaming or local AI tasks — are never heard