Having gone through Dells, HPs, Toshibas, and Apple laptops... The reason I use MBPs as the reference is because it is still the laptop I enjoy using the most

Having gone through Dells, HPs, Toshibas, and Apple laptops... The reason I use MBPs as the reference is because it is still the laptop I enjoy using the most on almost all metrics. The thinness is nice, a touch thicker to get more battery life would be nice but I use my laptop for several hours unplugged heavily without issue. The aluminum case feels better than any other laptop I've held. XPSes feel nice, but not like my laptop feels. The trackpad is excellent. Smooth surface instead of that bumpy stuff on most laptops. Last-gen Macbook keyboards (pre-butterfly) feel very nice. I use MBPs as a reference because that's what I mostly want. If I could get a MBP with dedicated GPU and no driver issues for Linux, I'd be pretty happy. Thin things are nice.