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There many laptops with top CPUs, top GPUs (for that weight) and top display panels. Which ones come consistently with excellent battery life/speakers/webcam/d

There many laptops with top CPUs, top GPUs (for that weight) and top display panels. Which ones come consistently with excellent battery life/speakers/webcam/display/trackpad/keyboard and are quiet? As for cpu/gpu can you beat performance per watt? With a PC laptop I often see people optimise for something like a top cpu/gpu/ssd/memory specs but the keyboard (feel & layout)/trackpad/speakers/display/etc. are always variable and many times trash. The other issue is there's no consistent design team for each model, and a lot of the times you get a half-baked design which manifest into reliability issues. Then compound that with uncooperative vendors which gets their users to troubleshoot/diagnose/and fix their flaws (see [asus]). PC laptops just do not undergo the same amount of rigour in design, testing, and QA that Apple does with their macbook/powerbook/ibook lines (we never talk about the butterfly era). At least for laptops, vertical integration will always beat modular/fragmented integration. [asus]: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

Yizahi 1y ago
Oh, I'm not arguing that Macbooks are bad. I'm arguing that they are not midrange. Midrange is a plastic Acer with low res display and mid range CPU, the thing for getting things done without fancy design. Macbooks are top tier, expensive devices (double so outside of USA). And when considering utilizing their unmatched integration, customer would want to buy in into other top tier devices, like Apple made phone, headphones, chargers etc.
- commandersaki 1y ago
  My apologies, I misread the intent of what you're saying. I see now and I think I agree. Base air is premium and compete spec wise with the mid range but at a higher cost. I'm hoping that rumours are true and a budget macbook using the a19 pro chipset from iphone will mean something at the low to mid price. Basically something that is more attuned for students / casual users that need a computer and not a tablet.

Yizahi 1y ago

Oh, I'm not arguing that Macbooks are bad. I'm arguing that they are not midrange. Midrange is a plastic Acer with low res display and mid range CPU, the thing for getting things done without fancy design. Macbooks are top tier, expensive devices (double so outside of USA). And when considering utilizing their unmatched integration, customer would want to buy in into other top tier devices, like Apple made phone, headphones, chargers etc.

commandersaki 1y ago
My apologies, I misread the intent of what you're saying. I see now and I think I agree. Base air is premium and compete spec wise with the mid range but at a higher cost. I'm hoping that rumours are true and a budget macbook using the a19 pro chipset from iphone will mean something at the low to mid price. Basically something that is more attuned for students / casual users that need a computer and not a tablet.