>With Apple hardware, unlike in their laptops, you have no choice but to run their software. Apple laptops are also in a pretty bad shape. Eventually, they may

>With Apple hardware, unlike in their laptops, you have no choice but to run their software. Apple laptops are also in a pretty bad shape. Eventually, they may be usable as laptops for other (free) OSes with sufficient reverse engineering, but currently they can't. That they can be used at all is quite accidental due to things outside of Apple's control and other historical factors.