Honestly this is why I put up with Apple’s shenanigans. Everything else on the market just seems to be either cheap garbage on the low end or clunky and still expensive (if not as much) on the high end.

I’m a software engineer and at work I have both an M2 MBP and a Dell Precision mobile workstation with I think 12th Gen i7. I cheaped out a bit on the Dell because I don’t need it as much as my MBP, but they were both expensive, high end laptops.

I’m running Ubuntu 22.04 on the Dell, and it’s… fine. It does what I need it to, but it doesn’t feel nearly as nice to use as my MBP. Maybe it would be better with Windows.

After using a Mac laptop for the past decade plus everything else just feels like garbage, especially when you factor in weight, display quality, touchpad quality, power management, cooling, etc.

For desktops it’s different… I built my own gaming PC and it’s great. But laptops… IMO there’s just nothing that can beat a Mac when it comes to overall product quality.

I mean it really depends on your use case. My wife has an M1 Air with 8GB and it’s fine for her needs. For me not so much.