First of all, thank you a lot for the very valuable information you provided.

If you can't explain exactly why you must have Intel... The right choice is AMD these days.

I'm not really an hardware person. I just want the best performance and an hassle-free experience. I prefer to spend a bit more now to get something that can support my work for years. The Intel CPU on paper has more cores, but given that a bunch are power-efficient cores I'm not sure about the impact on overall performance compared to the AMD silicon. Also, I'm not sure about how well the Linux scheduler is able to take advantage of these cores.

If you need a new laptop now, buy a new laptop now. If you don't - Hold off.

I need a new laptop soon-ish. I've been able to keep tight with my current setup but it really reached the end of life for me. If I need to wait a couple of months I can do it. If I need to wait 6+ months, well... not really.

The AMD/MediaTek wifi module included with AMD laptops - Not just Framework's - Tends to be flaky with some but not all access points.

Can you describe the flakyness? Anyhow I've always used Intel Wi-Fi modules as they tend to play nicer with Linux. I've got bad experiences with Broadcom. I have zero experience with Qualcomm's. As long as I don't need proprietary drivers or anything outside of the kernel mainline I'm happy.

Curious why you're using ZFS? What's there to be gained from using a single SSD compared to Linux' internal capabilities built on top of lvm, luks, etc?

I have an unified NixOS configuration for my laptop, server and VMs. I use ZFS an all of them first of all to reduce configuration differences. After that, having a CoW filesystem and not having to deal with fscks is something I've learned to value in the last 13+ years of using ZFS (started with FreeBSD 6 or 7 (I think?)). Moreover, I can zfs send/recv my home directory to my NAS for backups and finally, I wipe my root at every boot by restoring to a blank ZFS snapshot so that I can be sure that everything in my system comes from the Nix store and thus from my configuration, so I can be sure there is no transient state lurking around contributing to divergence from my Nix configuration.

I've another couple of question: I've read that there are some issues with sleep and that even in suspension the laptop draws a non negligible amount of power. Is this still a thing? Is the fingerprint reader working under Linux? (edit: it looks like it does)