No one in the industry uses Apple's marketing in any real sense. The marketing is not for you - its sole purpose is to sell more Macs to their target market.

No one in the industry uses Apple's marketing in any real sense. The marketing is not for you - its sole purpose is to sell more Macs to their target market. That you are distracted by it is not Apple's problem - and most other industry players don't GAF about Apple's self-comparisons either.