What’s your must-have laptop feature?

<p>These should be universal for all laptops today, but sadly aren't:</p><ul><li>Sturdy enough to handle normal day to day usage without falling apart or being flimsy</li><li>Backlit Keyboard and Trackpad with good Ergonomics, and smooth/reliable input (ex: no jumpy pointer or cursor)</li><li>Stable firmware and drivers with timely updates</li><li>Don't punish people on number/type of ports. If normal items like USB-A ports, SD card readers, and headphone jacks can be accommodated by the form factor of the laptop, it should be.</li><li>If pen support is there, make carrying the pen with you as easy as possible.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Microsoft should have a certification program for all reliability items. Normal people should be able to go to a Best Buy, Walmart, Target, etc… and every PC they sell has a sticker on the box that says it is Microsoft tested and approved – which means it should reliably do basic web surfing, streaming services like Spotify or Netflix, very light gaming, and office docs editing for 2-5 years (range depending on if CPU/RAM/Storage specs can keep up).</p><p><br></p><p>I have no idea if Google has achieved that or not. I know they have aligned with the needs of K-12 school IT admins, but that is not a 1:1 match with the above list.</p><p><br></p><p>I have no idea if the Linux scene has achieved that or not. I've heard good things from random internet people about custom made Linux computers, like from system76, but know of no one in real life that has one.</p><p><br></p><p>Apple forcing bad keyboards and dongles on their all their laptop users is not aligned with the above.</p><p><br></p><p>Everything else I suppose matters for the target audience or use cases. I would like to see Microsoft to continue expanding their Surface lineup &amp; 3rd party computers offered through their store to be great for most if not all use cases. For example – productivity PCs should have 3:2 displays while entertainment ones go with 16:9.</p><p><br></p><p>I would love to see in the future as a new hardware + software feature:</p><p>Run natively android apps but instead of ARM virtualization or deal with x86/x64 compatibility issues, have it run off of a separate ARM chip in the laptop (or if an ARM Windows laptop could load both Windows and Android at once that would be interesting).</p><p><br></p><p>If that doesn't occur, PWAs don't work out, and Google gets Chromebooks to have excellent support for Linux and Android Apps in the future, it is possible that my long term go to setup will be a high end Chromebook and try to have Paul's current mindset of a minimal usage of Google services, but use lots of 3rd party apps/services.</p><p><br></p>