While I don't have experience with the specific devices you mention, I have seen a lot of crap laptops get replaced quickly by other crap laptops. I don't mind

While I don't have experience with the specific devices you mention, I have seen a lot of crap laptops get replaced quickly by other crap laptops. I don't mind cheap low-powered computers (they have their use cases) but it really frustrates me to see them marketed as general-purpose computers to average consumers. Intel and AMD have both been guilty of selling low-powered, low-cost "general purpose" CPUs that couldn't compute their way out of a wet paper bag. Software is to blame for this problem as well. While we have gained a lot of features, modern software often uses system resources in a way that's not helpful to the user (either by active things like telemetry or lazy things like iterating over every object in a database unnecessarily). I get the feeling that software providers take my compute power for granted, and if I don't have enough, it's just time for me to buy a new computer again.