A colleague of mine bought a macbook pro for nearly $3k. When he found out about the touchbar, he cancelled the order and looked for other options. I pointed hi

A colleague of mine bought a macbook pro for nearly $3k. When he found out about the touchbar, he cancelled the order and looked for other options. I pointed him at a decent Thinkpad X1 Carbon for about $2000, at which point he said "no, that's so expensive!" When pushed on the point that he just willingly spent more than that on the apple laptop, he said "yeah, but when you use one, people know you're using a quality laptop". Yes, to this man at least, status was worth almost a grand.