The person you responded to has an AMD framework laptop, which means they can do 96 of ram if they want (some users report success with 128GB). The laptop you linked only goes up to 16GB of ram.
That laptop only has 256GB of storage whereas you can throw a 4TB m.2 ssd into the AMD framework if you want.
That laptop only has 2 USB type-c and they're both only 5Gbps (and one legacy USB port). The AMD 7040 framework has 2 USB4 40Gbps ports and 2 regular USB type-c 3.2 ports (and then the whole modular card system in front of those ports).
That laptop looks genuinely nice. With a few small tweaks I'd consider it. Though, in terms of personal preference I wouldn't want to do a chromebook again because of the annoyance of having to rebind the keys on every operating system I install (the pixelbook had the caps lock key bound to super and IIRC F11 was bound to something that doesn't exist on normal keyboards), and I'll never buy an oled screen for/in a computer.
What's the difference between "napping" and sleeping? Once you truly power down all the I/O they should perform about the same. A tablet with all the radios powered down (via airplane mode if necessary) can "nap" for a long time, rivaling any laptop with its proper "sleep".
Why is that? I read something about both Intel and AMD stopping a certain "level" of suspend, I didn't know there was an issue or design shortcoming that affected only AMD.
Not certain, but it appears the intel pretends it doesn’t support it but the hardware is still there, so Linux can still use it. But the newer AMD truly doesn’t.
I would love it if Apple just fully embraced Asahi, dedicated resources to it. Imagine 'you can now run either macOS or Linux on your Mac, or both, your choice' - not an an Apple subsystem for Linux, actual Linux, and all peripherals working right across the line.
Seems like as impressive as the work & project is, it's always going to be struggling to play catch-up: you're not happy with the extent of M1 implementation, my understanding is M3/M4 just barely work headlessly.
I'm enjoying my framework AMD laptop although the battery life with suspend is miserable.