Exactly what I bought. But then I stupidly smashed the laptop against a wall. And had to wait for many months to get a new screen.
The battery live is the Macs killer feature. Not sure if it would be ass good with Asahi. I'm not using MacOS.
The Apple build quality is good, but I honestly do not like to handle to cold slippy smooth aluminum body.
I'll have a Mac any day an employer offers to buy it for me. Lovely hardware, but it's just too glued-down for my current budget and growing frustration with lack of repairability.
I shall take a good lesson from your case and keep my ThinkPad in its Pelican case whenever I'm not using it. Can't afford to be laptopless for months!
It feels plasticky (magnesium chassis T/P-series belong to the ages) but it's a damn sight more computer than I could get from Apple for that money. Well, apart from the battery life, RAM bandwidth, OS-hardware integration, and build quality. It's more RAM than I could get from Apple for that money, for sure.