[leonroy]

I just bought a Thinkpad T14S Gen3 after evaluating a bunch of notebooks.

Compared to my Macbook Air the Mac excels in a couple of areas which Thinkpad is lacking in. Like ambient light sensor, port quality (ie. how recessed the USB-C port is and how much strain it can take), audio output quality (Macs have powered headphone jacks for high impedance headphones) and of course speaker quality which on Macs is second to none.

The Thinkpad by comparison has poor quality speakers, no ambient light sensor so it doesn't auto adjust the screen or keyboard backlight. Its USB-C ports are also not very strong so the any strain on them or wiggle will cause them to disconnect - they certainly feel very fragile.

I hear the Thinkpad Z13/Z16 is more comparable to a Macbook but again it doesn't have little details like an ambient light sensor which seems an odd omission in a luxury laptop and price wise it's practically the same.

That said, the new AMD Ryzen 7840HS and 7940HS chips are pretty competitive with an equivalent Apple M2:

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-7940hs

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac14-15

[LtdJorge]

And GeekBench is a pretty bad benchmark.

There's also the 7945HX which is a 16 core CPU, but only comes with big dedicated GPUs, sadly.