Now I'm really confused why you are on these forums at all if you think Apple does not give anything that is valuable.
But I know people like you. You are so rigid and uncompromising about your beliefs about this, that you genuinely think I could only possibly support Apple because of either ignorance or stupidity, and if I could only see the light like you have, I'd never buy their products again.
Well, wrong. I'm educated, I have both a PC and a Mac in my house right now, I have extensive experience with MacOS and Windows 10. I think my current MacBook Pro is the best laptop for me by a long shot. And I do not believe everyone else has caught up.
Build quality? MBP's are ****in' tanks, no I don't think that many PC laptops have comparable build quality. Again, your Asus is a giant pile of cheap plastic, and Razer is notorious for some of the worst QC issues in the market. Performance? Yeah - the 28W CPUs in the MBPs currently outperform the 15W counterparts in most other laptops. Apple has always opted for higher level Iris graphics as well while other manufacturers generally use the crappy UHD 620-like GPUs in their ultrabooks. Mobility? Yeah of course, it's thin, it's light, it's the same weight as just about everything else at 3 lbs. Choice? Of course - thanks to cloud services, it would be super easy to move from Mac to Windows as my main whenever I wanted to. So I am not "bound" to what Apple gives me - if I find their offerings insufficient, I'll look elsewhere. So far they haven't given me a reason to. OS? What a bunch of ******** that MacOS is unable to match Linux. And don't get me started on Windows 10, where I need to only go 2 menus deep to run into an ancient Windows XP style control panel, or god forbid have to go into the goddamn registry just to do something like invert the mouse scrolling direction like a neanderthal. I am well versed in these various OS's and I far, far prefer MacOS on a daily basis for its simplicity, the robust Unix underpinnings, and its stability.
So again, this is actually your problem. You think I would only choose a Mac because I'm "bound to Apple offerings" or "making a statement with my machine." Believe me, I don't give a **** what laptop people see me use. Apple won me over when they let me return a MacBook 1 month out of warranty, because their customer service is just ****in awesome like that, and I shudder when I think of other manufacturers and their mail-in RMA BS. I like the continuity features, I like things like AirDrop with my devices and with family members, and easy account sharing, and having my desktop and documents available on my phone because of iCloud Drive, I like Universal Clipboard, I like Touch ID and Apple Pay and the T2 chip and the on the fly encryption and security I know I'm getting out of it, I like thunderbolt 3, I like high quality P3 displays, I could just keep going and going.
You have to understand this simple fact: people here know as much as you, and disagree with you. How you deal with that is up to you, either blow a fuse and just argue more aggressively that you're the only one that can be right here, or accept that the kind of people that peruse these forums are well informed, well educated, have professional jobs which earn them the money to support buying these tools, and make a smart and well informed decision to buy them.
