Software aside, when I was looking for a laptop I simply couldn't find anything even remotely close to Macbook Pro's LCD screen. All PC-based laptops feature wh

Software aside, when I was looking for a laptop I simply couldn't find anything even remotely close to Macbook Pro's LCD screen. All PC-based laptops feature what seems to be an exact copy of some crappy, cheap, glossy 6-bit panel with low contrast and distorted colors, only sizes and resolutions are different. Those crappy panels, I suspect, is #1 reason why laptops suddenly got so much cheaper lately. Don't get me wrong, new MBP's are also glossy, and their panels aren't 8-bit (i.e. only 262K colors, just like everybody else), but they still have decent contrast ratios and reasonably well calibrated. Keyboards are another matter. Only Lenovo Thinkpads and new generation of Dell Latitude seem to be well-made, everything else feels like an oversized Texas Instruments calculator. With all that said, I find I'm most productive on Gnome-based Linux distros. PC industry just stopped manufacturing laptops I can put it on. Hopefully, it's temporary.