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If you cherry pick laptops these days, you can even surpass Mac OS or Windows. My MacBook Air from 2012 has longer battery life and stays cooler using a stock Linux kernel than with it's Mac counterpart.

The trick is that it has very well supported Intel components. As a matter of fact, Linus used this laptop for some time.



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