Yep, I completely agree. Don't buy into the hype. The one thing that I do recommend is to have a keyboard you like, those are much harder to swap out. Everyt

Yep, I completely agree. Don't buy into the hype. The one thing that I do recommend is to have a keyboard you like, those are much harder to swap out. Everything else is easy to find on the mid / low end including usb 3 ports. My setup (Lenovo) with a 256g Samsung 830 (same drive in macs) and 8 gigs of ram running on a second gen i5 cost about $650 and that was a year ago.