Every PC maker wonders why people switch to the Mac any chance they get.

Simple: It's the touchpad, stupid!

Every PC maker than makes a conscious decision to ignore this truth.

And then they put in a cheap plastic trackpad that feels like garbage and cost $1 to make.

The customer is not king with Lenovo/Dell/Acer/Asus/HP, so the customer goes to Apple to feel like king.

Muy buen punto sobre los modelos matematicos: al final la transparencia del RNG y la coherencia de los pagos es lo que distingue a una plataforma seria de una que no lo es. Lo interesante es cuanto trabajo hay detras para mantener el equilibrio entre las probabilidades y la experiencia del usuario. En mi caso he estado usando https://1win.biz.pk/ para mercados deportivos y juegos en vivo, y se nota bastante cuando una plataforma cuida esos detalles con una navegacion fluida. Buen tema para debatir, gracias por abrirlo.

The price gap makes sense once you factor in the prebuilt convenience and the software layer, but for anyone comfortable building, a small form factor PC still wins on upgradeability. Depends whether you value plug-and-play or long-term flexibility more.

Worth backing up before touching NVMe driver settings though - I tried a similar tweak and got a nice sequential bump, but random 4K read barely moved on my drive. Results seem to vary a lot depending on the controller and firmware, so benchmark before and after rather than assuming.

Nice roundup. Battery life is the one spec I keep prioritising over everything else now - a slightly slower phone that comfortably lasts a full day beats a flagship I have to top up by the afternoon. Camera and screen are great, but endurance is what I actually feel every day.

Good breakdown. For me the value really depends on how often you actually use the advanced models day to day - I was paying for two tools and realised I only leaned on one of them for anything serious. Cancelling the overlap saved more than any single discount did.

Really useful ranking, thanks for putting it together. I've noticed the same pattern in demanding titles - the mid-range cards fall off a cliff once you push higher resolutions with ray tracing on. Would be interesting to see how much of that gap comes down to VRAM versus raw shader throughput.