Probably by optimising for battery life, rather than the specs & price. A lot of the things that people on HN like about non-macbooks like 32GB of RAM or a rea

Probably by optimising for battery life, rather than the specs & price. A lot of the things that people on HN like about non-macbooks like 32GB of RAM or a real GPU or a 4k screen, all use extra power. I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch, but these things aren't free from a power perspective, and throwing a larger battery at the problem isn't always enough to make it equivalent.