[rahimnathwani]

I've seen non-Mac laptops ship with a recovery partition but:

1. The recovery partition takes up some space, and

2. You (or malware) can mess up the recovery partition, and

3. The recovery partition doesn't exist if just upgraded the storage (e.g. replace the HDD with an SSD).

Macbooks have other failings (e.g. increasingly hard to upgrade/replace hardware yourself) but the operating system recovery works better than anything I've seen for Windows or Linux. Chromebooks have a factory reset key sequence, but that requires a working ChromeOS on the drive.

[Nextgrid]

The recovery partition on non-Mac laptops typically comes with preinstalled crapware too, making it worse than getting a vanilla Windows DVD.

[JaimeThompson]

Modern Dell systems support Internet recovery at least in the business class line. Just tested it a few weeks ago on a Dell all-in-one.