For the most part hardware lottery can be summarized in one word - Nvidia. Don't buy laptops with Nvidia card if you want to use Linux. Optimus is crap, prime offloading is crap and often laptop manufacturers hardwire external hmdi to Nvidia GPU.

I have been running the latest Thinkpad t14s with fedora 33 and it is perfect in almost every possible way compared to MacBook. I also have Thinkpad extreme gen2 with Nvidia card and I had nothing but trouble with it.