[ivanca]

Yeah, an also note awesome laptops like an Acer I got for $400 5 years ago and despite many many hard hits against the floor it still works and has the same battery life length. This is true, but the problem with anecdotal experience is that you can "prove" anything with it.

[gmac]

It's not as simple as: all Apple products are perfect and all Windows laptops are terrible. But the chances of your Apple hardware having a horrible fault, in my experience, are very significantly lower. And if it does have a horrible fault, it almost certainly won't be a stupid and maddening one caused by a third-party driver.

[izacus]

So chances are that 2000-3000$ piece of equpment have less faults than 300$-3000$ piece of equipment?

The problem with your argument is that you're doing a comparison of vastly different hardware and target markets. Lumping all Windows manufacturers and their laptop series into the same basket causes disenginous argument which is sadly perpetuated by Apple marketing.

Doing a relevant comparison like Apple 13" MacBooks with Lenovo's comparable ThinkPad series usually shows very comparable quality hardware and software wise.

[Gracana]

I have one of the new thinkpads at work, and (off the top of my head) the screen can be bent in and out considerably with a light push of the finger, and it has an incredibly rattly/wavy/cheap plastic strip of buttons above the keyboard. I don't think their quality is what it once was.