Seriously, for performance, etc, Verge needs to compare these to both MB Pro and MB Air. If they position well between the 2 Apple products, that’s OK. But I think the 2 Apple products bound the space these alternatives are trying to operate in. It’ll be an interesting point of evaluation whether you run Windows or MacOS (I’d suggest trying both) on the two Apple products in question to get a good like-to-like comparison.