Real Linux support. Using hardware that's half supported gets old once you're relying on Linux 100% to get your work done. I'll pay a premium, and have, for the assurance that the entire package works well with Linux.
Also, look at how expensive M2 MBPs are. Spec one out to a comparable laptop in the OP and the MBP will be more expensive.
Not sure how exactly 16 inch 4K display is Linux friendly knowing that Xorg and Wayland still has plenty of UI scaling issues. And the fact that they expect you to power it with Pentium N5030 processor is laughable. Why even offer such combination?
Also it's funny how on landing page it mentions 165Hz display, but in specs it is only available as an option and not for the 4K display. Not that it would even be able to drive it properly.
Looking at the specs, it seems like they are trying to build one of the worst possible Linux experiences possible. It lacks only Nvidia GPU to make it absolute garbage. I have one like that at work. Thinkpad with 4K display, and dedicated Nvidia GPU. It's not supposed to run Linux but I tried it anyway and it was very bad.
Scaling on Wayland on popular DEs has been a relatively solved problem for at least a year or two now. Fractional scaling, and scaling in general, used to be a pain I ran into often, but I've hadn't had to think about it at all in quite a while since it just works. Might still be an issue on older LTS distributions, though.
edit: I looked back at some release notes and it's been more than 2 years that fractional scaling worked. The pandemic has really messed with my sense of time for the last few years.
> And the fact that they expect you to power it with Pentium N5030 processor is laughable. Why even offer such combination?
I wouldn't choose it, but it has a <5W TDP according to the specs, might be a good choice if you're just doing glorified texting/programming and want long battery life.
Also, I don't see an option for a Pentium N5030 in the laptop in the OP.
I have Lenovo 14" with 4k display and Ryzen 4850. I really like the crisp and accurate display. I have used wayland since 2015 when it became default in Fedora.
I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to scaling issues?
And even Skylake iGPU was fast enough to drive the 15" 4k display 60Hz on Precision 5510 laptop smoothly in desktop use. Ryzen is obviously many times faster so there should be enough power for higher refresh rates.
Fractional scaling was initially an afterthought for Wayland and its implementations, like in Plasma, lagged about adding it and then implementing it without bugs. Fractional scaling was broken on Plasma for a bit because of it, and GNOME decided that users didn't need it. That hasn't been the case for a while, now, and it works on both desktops.
Xorg also had to implement it, and at one point Xorg's implementation was more stable than what popular Wayland compositors offered.
