I don't think that buying adapters is the biggest issue here. Personally for me it starts to become a question about the compromise I'd need to make on a laptop

I don't think that buying adapters is the biggest issue here. Personally for me it starts to become a question about the compromise I'd need to make on a laptop that is really expensive. I don't see $50 adapter as an investment on a Macbook when there are really high quality alternatives that satisfy my use case just as well. But then again, all of this is really subjective and every body will have a different set of requirements that they value!