[yakubin]

ThinkPad X13 Gen 3 starts at $1919. Macbook Air M2 with 8GB RAM is $1199. Macbook Air M2 with 16GB RAM is $1,399. So even at 16GB it's still a lot cheaper than the Lenovo laptop used. Price doesn't explain the disparity in the hardware used in the benchmarks.

[Macha]

The consumer edition of the same laptop is $1200 https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000E-10RU3

(the 6800u ~= 6850u unless you're deploying them en masse in the enterprise, in which case there's extra management features in the Ryzen pro that the Mac doesn't have)

[paulmd]

So, you're comparing a lower build quality on the Lenovo side against the Apple? Yeah, of course if you start cutting costs out of other places, the price comes down, that's not a particularly interesting or insightful point, you've just loaded the comparison.

[Macha]

Looks like they don't have pictures of the current consumer model yet, but looking at last gen:

https://p4-ofp.static.pub/fes/cms/2022/04/20/j7rnbsqww5svxas...

https://p2-ofp.static.pub/fes/cms/2022/03/17/14ph1afu8vmtli8...

The better build quality amounts to black paint, a trackball, and clicky buttons on the trackpad.

[yakubin]

Also seems to be 16:10 instead of 16:9, and have a different set of ports. Honestly I don't see what those two laptops have in common beyond both being Lenovo.

[deckard1]

no one is paying Lenovo listing price. In fact, there is a 40% off coupon right there on the page, bringing that $1919 down to $1151. You may even be able to get deeper discounts through your employer corporate discount plan.