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What do you mean by better hardware exactly? ASUS' Zenbook Duo like https://www.darty.com/nav/achat/informatique/ordinateur_port... are pretty awesome. I have the previous model with i9-12900H and it is amazing. Or LG Gramm if weight matters. Or TUXEDO InfinityBook if you need more RAM/2xSSD.

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I can't access your link. I only know the Macs from what the rest of my family reports- insanely long battery life (days without recharging) and reasonable performance.

I can't imagine the battery life is very good in real world compared to the mac. I haven't tested nor have I looked at any benchmarks, so it's entirely possible I'm totally wrong. But I haven't heard people claiming performance similar to the mac.

The problem you’ll face is that this battery life is in equal measure software and hardware, at least in the intel days.

Running windows in boot camp drastically cut battery life.

Plenty of 2nd hand Macs which can last into 3rd to 5th hands. On non Macs, it is hard to find any matching brands that with closest maybe Thinkpads like those X2XX and X4XX series. Just walk into any laptop repair shops and ask them for opinions. Mac easily ranked highest....I know because I have friends and families working in that business. Also many developers I know even those working in Microsoft use Mac. Mac in general do have best hardware.

That’s all great, but irrelevant.

My point was that, and I say this from experience, if you get 8 hours of battery life on a MacBook running macOS you won’t get 8 hours running windows. You will get less, sometimes significantly less.

The person I originally replied to wanted to get a MacBook and put windows on it because the MacBook gets such great battery life. If they do put windows on it, the battery life won’t be so great anymore.

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