Where the hell are the new MacBooks?
If you buy a laptop based only on raw specs, you are in a different market than the vast majority of laptop users.<p>Most people want their laptop to be reasonably fast, get solid battery life, and have a nice display and ergonomics.  Also important is power saving technology (sleep, hibernate, etc.) and storage size&#x2F;speed.<p>Most commodity laptops that are competing in the raw specs wars have major deficiencies in one or more of the above areas.<p>If you are a Windows user, you have taken on the task of dealing with a broken, polluted driver ecosystem and lots of malware, as well as an OS that shows you ads on the desktop.<p>If you are a Linux user you take on the task of making sure your bleeding edge hardware works with linux.  This is no small task and in many cases it&#x27;s over a year after release that linux support for new technology becomes anything approaching reliable.<p>A Macbook, on the other hand, just works, and works extremely well.  It is a reliable work horse that does its job without complaining.  The hardware and ergonomics fade into the background and you just focus on your work.<p>I suppose if you are a gamer there is a case to be made for running Windows on bleeding edge hardware, but such gamers are a very small percentage of laptop users.