Most laptops are bad intentionally. Less effort, more profit, and replaced sooner.
But that's not to say good non-mac laptops dont exist, nor that mac laptops are the best.
I currently have an m1 mbp and an asus zephyrus g14
They're the same size and weight, but
+ the macbook has longer battery life, though this varies. sometimes they are equal at 5 hours, and they both can go to 10, but it is easier for the mac.
+ the macbook has a webcam, but also a minus, because i prefer to unplug an external one when not in use, and there are really great portable external ones that have gyros to follow you around.
- the macbook's display is worse, because of apple's insistence on these terrible glossy finishes
- needlessly sharp edges. this could be user error, but if they didnt design it that way it wouldnt be.
- I/O? the thing does not have usb A ports. now I need adapters and hubs.
- no nvidia graphics card. part of the worse battery life of the g14 is controlling when that graphics card is in use, but at least it has it, so that i can do certain creative & ai workloads.
- keyboard is just worse. and that's before getting into that macos has forced the keyboard to be worse by having 'option' and 'command' keys to be an obstacle for anyone who uses every other OS that isn't macos. With enough key interception and remapping I got it to act like linux but the keys are still named wrong
But that's not to say good non-mac laptops dont exist, nor that mac laptops are the best. I currently have an m1 mbp and an asus zephyrus g14 They're the same size and weight, but
+ the macbook has longer battery life, though this varies. sometimes they are equal at 5 hours, and they both can go to 10, but it is easier for the mac.
+ the macbook has a webcam, but also a minus, because i prefer to unplug an external one when not in use, and there are really great portable external ones that have gyros to follow you around.
- the macbook's display is worse, because of apple's insistence on these terrible glossy finishes
- needlessly sharp edges. this could be user error, but if they didnt design it that way it wouldnt be.
- I/O? the thing does not have usb A ports. now I need adapters and hubs.
- no nvidia graphics card. part of the worse battery life of the g14 is controlling when that graphics card is in use, but at least it has it, so that i can do certain creative & ai workloads.
- keyboard is just worse. and that's before getting into that macos has forced the keyboard to be worse by having 'option' and 'command' keys to be an obstacle for anyone who uses every other OS that isn't macos. With enough key interception and remapping I got it to act like linux but the keys are still named wrong