It was always clear that 2024 was going to be an important year for Windows computers, as the wide range of manufacturers, hardware providers and Microsoft itself, realigned to take on the competition posed by Apple's MacBook family and potentially result in some of the best laptops we've seen.
In 2020 when Apple Silicon was announced, we got a demonstration of how powerful the closed ecosystem can be for the company. Apple slickly made the move over to different hardware for the MacBook, doing something that Windows has attempted on several occasions since 2012.
