If you are wanting a laptop for general or creative work, I would absolutely agree with you.

If you are wanting a laptop for business work with Windows-only apps that are niche enough to never get support from WINE, I would honestly recommend Dell business-class laptops.

The downside is the price: these are built like tanks, somewhere between consumer and toughbook standards, and as such, are commensurately expensive. The ones I am talking about are the “pro precision workstations”.

Before the AI price spikes (mid 2025), it was not unusual to spend $2k CAD on a midrange model, $8k CAD with all the bells and whistles. But as a result, running one for 6-8 years is not uncommon.

And since last fall, it seems that prices have jumped by $2k CAD on the midrange machines to as much as $14k CAD on the high end thanks to RAM, SSD, and GPU prices. Like JFC, plumping out to 128Gb is now +$8k CAD all by itself, and +$3k CAD just for a decent SSD. The top end machine went from something around $8k to $22k CAD, and even dropped the options for 256Gb and 512Gb RAM.