I don’t see many mentions of weight, and that’s my number one. There are some incredibly light laptops available now, and that’s my number one criteria, how light can you get with a 13 inch screen. I’ve currently got a monster “workstation” laptop at work and having a haul a 6 lb laptop around is particularly irritating, but once I felt 2.5 lbs, any more than that was irritating. In practical fact I have a 12 year old laptop and a little netbook, and with sdd replacements for the spinning platter drives they continue to be just fine, so I’m not buying anything at the moment. But if I did, I’d choose by weight.
This. For when I'm on the go I've got a 17" LG Gram laptop with 24 GB of RAM. This thing is incredibly light.
That's the most important thing to me in a laptop: ultra light.
If you don't care about how light your laptop is, you may as well use a desktop (I'm ofc using a beefy desktop at home).
Something else: I've got a M1 Mac too, for the living room basically. The physical edges are way, way, way too sharp and it's simply not a comfortable laptop to use when slouching in the couch. The edges are so sharp you feel like you may actually physically damage your wrists. It's a long time standing complains about Apple laptops: I simply cannot understand how they can still get that so wrong (I'm sure, at some point, they'll come up with smoother edges but it's 2021 and we're not there yet). Now the trackpad on the M1 is way better than the trackpad on the LG Gram: feels way more sturdy. I like the very long battery the M1 has too.
