As a starting point, Windows applications developers often use Windows laptops; macOS and iOS application developers typically use Apple laptops. For generaliz

As a starting point, Windows applications developers often use Windows laptops; macOS and iOS application developers typically use Apple laptops. For generalized development tasks, Intel-based Apple laptops are quite typical; to date, there hasn't been a compelling necessity (i.e., signing infrastructure requirements) to run Linux on anything but a re-purposed Intel-/AMD-based device. The Dell Developer Edition devices arrive with batteries included (for Canonical Ubuntu, anyway), though the biggest driver is demand. There are plenty of folks internal to most of the major laptop manufacturers that unofficially support flavored Linux on their own time, as their sales and marketing staff don't prioritize Linux offerings as a product. Lastly, there are a lot of folks within the greater Linux ecosystem that want true "librem" laptops; problem is, the resources do not YET exist at ODM (not OEM) scale to fully support backports to librem device firmware (commercial device firmware is complicated enough, thanks to Intel / AMD).