Which is why I said "premium laptop". I don't expect lower end laptops to include it regardless of the cost of the controller itself. There's far more than the

Which is why I said "premium laptop". I don't expect lower end laptops to include it regardless of the cost of the controller itself. There's far more than the $9 involved: greater PCB complexity, additional ICs, extra connectors, etc. But a premium line like HP's Z-series includes TB even in the lowest config (i5-8400, UHD 630 iGPU) starting at ~$3500. I'm reasonably certain that going with AMD CPUs would actually lower the BOM despite the extra $9 TB controller. Intel CPUs are not cheap.