for a pretty long time i've held the belief that there are 3 Consistently Good laptop series - thinkpads (used/old), frameworks and macbooks.
- thinkpads are good for the budget segment, if you want something relatively cheap & reliable but jesus some of them suffer from poor battery life.
- frameworks are good if you want something futureproof and moddable for a pretty solid price (but i'm not sure about power draw. looks like they can do 9-12h of video playback depending on the config, but that's nothing to macbooks' PPW/battery life).
- macbooks are a good choice if you're already in the apple ecosystem with at least 2 other devices because of their interconnectivity, the battery life and PPW are spectacular since the ARM switch, but you're gonna have to pay up, both for upgrades and repairs. but if you're in too deep that a macbook is your most likely choice, you probably already got enough cash.
most other laptop series/manufacturers didn't really vibe with me in one way or another. there is a reason why i don't recommend buying newer thinkpads, it's mostly that they're pretty pricey off-the-shelf and don't fit the good quality segment that old thinkpads used to be in and shipped with all of their various little gimmick features that were actually pretty good. excluding PowerBridge, that sucked, i can tell you that as a user of a powerbridge thinkpad.
just my opinions.
