This sums it up well. Some other quick points: 1. Great power management and battery. 2. Nicely made Mac apps (TextWrangler/BBEdit/Transmit). 3. Tight integrat

This sums it up well. Some other quick points: 1. Great power management and battery. 2. Nicely made Mac apps (TextWrangler/BBEdit/Transmit). 3. Tight integration of iCloud ecosystem. 4. Seamless backups. 5. Interest in Objective-C development. I can't find the link but a well-known Linux developer switched to a MacBook because Linux didn't play well on his laptops. Poor power management, audio stops working, wifi doesn't work, etc. If I had to get a PC laptop, it would be a Thinkpad T-series with Ubuntu, though I'm not sure how good driver support is. Aside from great hardware engineering, their software ecosystem is their most secret weapon: Cocoa/Objective-C.