There is a pretty interesting rabbithole of semiconductor industry blogs (seminanalysis, chips and cheese, fundamental bottom) that can be fairly interesting to stay up to date on current hardware developments even without an CE/EE background.

Just as a info, they are a Clevo reseller: https://linustechtips.com/topic/802163-clevo-custom-laptops-and-world-clevo-resellers/#comment-10086025

That probably also applies to a lot of other small size linux laptop companies that are not doing a lot of custom stuff in their laptops.