I'm happy to pay more for a MacBook than I would the equivalent Windows machine or Linux laptop because I value the experience of using MacOS, the superior (for

I'm happy to pay more for a MacBook than I would the equivalent Windows machine or Linux laptop because I value the experience of using MacOS, the superior (for me) software ecosystem, and what I consider to be better hardware and support. But, I don't attach an infinite value to each of those. I will pay more for those things — even more than they're worth on a strictly rational assessment — because I can't get them elsewhere. But at a certain point, the "Apple premium" becomes so obviously punitive that I start thinking that it wouldn't be so bad to deal with Windows or Linux, that the hardware from other manufacturers isn't all that inferior, that I'll put up with the support from a Lenovo. But, on the other hand, I'll probably just hang on to what I have until the next iteration.