Thinkpads are no longer the high quality machines they once were... Apple should devote more effort to the MBP lineup (in particular a higher end machine with

Thinkpads are no longer the high quality machines they once were... Apple should devote more effort to the MBP lineup (in particular a higher end machine with up to 64 GB of ECC RAM like Dell and HP offer), but the MBPs hit a sweet spot for development in many ways. You can always run Linux in a VM if you really need to do something with Linux...