No, they're just different devices with some overlap. When searching for a laptop to buy, providing Apple MacBooks in the comparison would be about as useful as

No, they're just different devices with some overlap. When searching for a laptop to buy, providing Apple MacBooks in the comparison would be about as useful as adding iPads or Chromebooks - it could work as "if you only care about X, check out our article on this other type of product", but that's it. Apple's products mostly make sense within it's ecosystem. If you're not already there, there are a lot of hurdles and useless things. As a lifelong Windows and Linux user (with a couple of years of iMac usage at school), i now have a work provided MacBook Pro. Almost every other week i discover something new about it that annoys me - be it Pages automatically saving in its own shitty proprietary format instead of the original, the impossibility to have separate scroll order between mouse and touchpad, that while it sleeps Bluetooth is still on thus tricking various devices to connect to it, that i have to run a keylogger to add custom shortcuts and remap some keys, that fullscreen apps go to a separate workspace so I can't switch between their windows, etc. etc. And there are extra annoyances due to the architecture change, like having to re/cross compile stuff manually (for my specific use case). And it can't run games. As others said, it's apples to oranges. "Casual" users can usually barely handle the OS they know and use, what makes anyone think they can switch to a different one with different logic?