| For me: I have a Macbook Air M1 2020 and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Gen (4 years old!) running Linux Mint. I have upgraded the Thinkpad's Battery, RAM (16GB), and SSD (500GB) for the cost of the parts. I will not be able to do that on the Macbook. Ever. For what I do (browsing, videos, some writing and research) the only benefit to the Macbook is slightly better battery life. I have more software option on the Thinkpad for sure and it does not want to control everything I do. I paid WAY less for the thinkpad and I get pretty much the same performance for my needs. The THRUTH is that most people are being way oversold computing power and paying a premium for it because they are locked into the platform. And just yesterday for some reason Safari vanished and re-arranged my bookmarks for no reason. Getting my MacBook ready to sell as a matter of fact. In my mind it is stupid (and poor marketing) that the linux community is not crushing Apple with cheap, fast laptops. |
That is not how the economics of laptops work.
Most people don't want a Linux laptop. Call it inertia, but it is a fact that most people buy Windows laptops.
Most of the premium market consumers prefer Apple.
And most people who prefer Linux aren't paying a premium right now.
So you have three sets that do not overlap, and there is nothing the community can do about that in the short to medium term, anyway.