a low end laptop is just a windows equivalent of a chromebook. the hardware may even mostly match. it can run windows, and it can run about one thing at a time. with a junk gpu. like a chromebook.

there are still plenty of arm models available. many of which are really just tablet hardware in a clamshell. which, so are many of the intel models if you look closely.

it isn’t so much intel occupying the low end laptop space, as commodity tablet hardware.