[TomVDB]

That seems like a stretch? Isn’t the more obvious explanation that laptops with a real GPU are much more expensive and that the weaker, integrated GPUs are more than good enough for the vast majority of business use?

Today’s iGPUs are fast enough comfortable run plenty of games.

I have work provided high-end POS Dell Precision engineering laptop. It has an Nvidia discrete GPU, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed its power, and I’d gladly trade it for a laptop without…