Apple's hardware (unless you want a hackable Thinkpad that weights 5x as much and sounds like a jet engine in exchange for being slower) is so much better than

Apple's hardware (unless you want a hackable Thinkpad that weights 5x as much and sounds like a jet engine in exchange for being slower) is so much better than basically any alternative it's not even funny anymore. There's probably a laptop out there that's as nice as a piece of art than a MacBook but the internals are probably crap in comparison.