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> The battery life on my own X220 is fantastic. I have a brand-new 9-cell that lasts for roughly 5-6 hours of daily work. Obviously these numbers don't come close to the incredible battery life of Apple's M1/M2 chip devices, but it's still quite competitive against other "newer" laptops on the market.

Oh okay, so it’s the best sub-tier laptop on the market. MacBooks still on top, got it.

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> MacBooks still on top, got it.

What I care about:

- OLED screenshortcut

- ECC RAM (min 32G, ideally 128G)

- having a touchscreen

- having a trackpoint

- having physical page up and page down keys

An internal 4G LTE module is nice to have, but not required. The ability to remove the M2 storage to quickly transplant it into something else if needed is nice too, but if there's a switch to turn the laptop into a giant thumbdrive even if the OS/screen/keyboard is dead, that'd be ok too

On every single metric, the MacBook is bottom tier for me: it's only offering battery life, which I don't care about.

Only considering battery life based on the post.

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