love my starbook mkvi. coreboot bios features like setting charge level and frequent firmware updates (over fwupd, which is rare and extremely convenient!) linux first class, tteir own hardware all are fantastic. battery not fantastic, but i run many VMs and keep charge level to 60% so I am bad judge, ttough 6hr is good ballpark. speakers are not bad but not macbook level at all. support is super quick and knowledgeable. had this pc 2yr or so now, will be buying from starlabs excrusively in the future. only wish i had more usb c ports, but new models do. practically as open hardware as framework, with ram and ssd user erplaceable and even battary and motherboard replacements for sale, but much better linux support from what ive read. highly recommend!
I've been hovering over the "buy" button on a StarBook as I get increasingly frustrated with the MacOS experience.
My chief worries are battery life and speaker quality..if you have a StarBook are you happy and can you speak to those?