Yeah, I mean it’s not exactly the same price. But after you pass a certain price point adding few hundred $ is not making a big difference. While what you get -

Yeah, I mean it’s not exactly the same price. But after you pass a certain price point adding few hundred $ is not making a big difference. While what you get - mobility, battery, great keyboard and display, speakers, webcam, touch-id, etc is quite a lot of stuff for 700$. If you just add a good external display, it’s easy to pass the price of MBP. At the same time you loose nothing. It’s not really a desktop machine, that would be much faster or allow part replacement. It is just a laptop without a lot of parts.