Nah, performance.

Which you can get in spades if you don't suck on Apples ecosystem like it's your mother's tit.

No, I was denying the fact that "If you don't use Apple you're poor".

I am paying top dollar for a laptop that has the specifications I want, an exposed PCIE port for arbitrary PCIE devices to be dropped on the bus at any given time, perfect Linux support, and every part designed to be able to upgraded and repaired at will. Yes, if I ever need to, I want to be able to have 96 GB of RAM and 6 TB of storage installed. Apple simply does not allow this. In my case, my total configuration will be 32 GB of RAM and 3 TB of storage with a 8 core / 16 threads CPU with enough onboard graphical compute units to be usable even for some graphically intensive tasks with the eGPU unplugged. Even with its most expensive option, Apple does not sell a laptop that can be specced this far. I want to be able to connect Oculink eGPUs and not be bound by Thunderbolt's max transfer speed as well - and Apple does not offer this feature.

Apple doesn't offer this. It would be cheaper to buy Apple in my situation, but it simply doesn't offer the features I ask for.

Now the small challenge is: guess what laptop I have on order? ;)