I believe era of custom software is coming. AI is getting much powerful from month to month and that day will come when you can implement your own browser someday and no one like Google can stop you from it ;)
I actually run it as a server - so most of the time I don't have to listen to it right next to me - it's just sitting in another room in my house - but I often am traveling with it and will have it sitting right next to my coding laptop and yea the fan runs non-stop - it's not obnoxious so i can pretty easily tune it out - also airpods/noise canceling headphones help!
There’s fan noise, but the acoustic engineers at Apple have done a very good job of making it be pretty much not noticeable to someone who has noise sensitivity (me).
the noise is pretty doable, and so is the heat, I find. I read these messages before I had the machine and expected far worse. The tok/s is for me the dealbreaker as I prefer to have multiple sessions. For nightly runs i do like it a lot, or to be a node in a mesh.
I tried the macos and ios versions of Orion yesterda and it was a great experience.
I've used Brave from the beginning but it has become bloated with web3-related stuff and has outdated UX (imo) on mobile.
Orion desktop is inspired by Safari, Arc in a best way. Ad-blocking and chrome/firefox extensions from the beginning, convenient vertical tabs, mature level of ui customization.
For example: i'm using Claude Code mostly + Gemini CLI. Gemini CLI is not such powerful as CC, also it won't work with some mcp's. So i have different *.md files.