I've been considering that leap for years, fear of the effort to get to a non-annoying Linux laptop always drives me back to Mac. I finally took the dive on a

I've been considering that leap for years, fear of the effort to get to a non-annoying Linux laptop always drives me back to Mac. I finally took the dive on a PixelBook to try out, figured that at least the basics (battery, wireless, sound, video, command-line) should be less-likely to be an annoyance. However, at $1649 (16GB, i7 quad-core 1.3G, 512 SSD), it's not much of a savings over a reasonably-similar Mac config ($1799-1899).