What a great time to be in the market for a new machine, lots of hot air (literally) and throttling with the 6/8 core Intel i9s.
At 6-8 cores a 10nm with low base clock and decent boost speeds would probably be a decent option provided it doesn't throttle in the thin/light laptops of today.
Consumer is caught between worlds, the old power hungry one, and the new efficient one where long battery life and cool/quiet mobile systems are the norm (at least that's the hope).
This one was an anomaly and it doesn't feel fully supported by the Linux kernel, I have to add several parameters to the bootloader just to install Linux.
Next iterations should be better.
idk, I got a Ryzen 5 HP Envy 15" last year, and am perfectly happy with it. Intel isn't 100% owning the laptop market right now.