As Robin Hanson says, building the sheer variety of products we have is actually bad, because it increases unit costs. This is especially clear in laptops - there are far too many laptops with too little to distinguish them and too many nonsense minor issues. As such, I think we need a new streamlined and harmonized lineup of all laptops:
- Cheapest Possible Technically Functional Laptop
- Mediocre Office and Home Laptop (to be issued to most office workers and people who want to edit spreadsheets or emails and such)
- CEO Laptop (reasonably fast, expensive, big battery for CEO activities)
- Programmer Laptop (ThinkPad-like focused on CPU performance and reasonable portability)
- Gamer Laptop (16" Legion-like with middling battery life and decently high-powered CPU/GPU)
- Gamer Laptop (Big) (17"-18" desktop replacement)
- Technician Laptop (smallish thick and rugged laptop with many ports)
- Multimedia Laptop (Mediocre Office and Home Laptop with a nicer display and better graphics)
There would also be a version number updated whenever new components are available, of course. There can perhaps be two or three variants of each (with the same chassis, board, etc but different components) with different pricing, but no more.