Just anecdata, but from walking through German trains, I disagree. I still see non-Retina MacBook Airs on some trays, for example, last sold in 2015.

Some Mac models are clearly more reliable and maintainable than others, see the butterfly keyboard fiasco. But I think companies should be judged by their better products, not the duds.

Hah. It is actually. Apple releases the MacBook Air... what does the PC market do in lock step? Try to copy it. We can thank Apple for insisting on SSDs in the laptop for all our PC laptops having them. When Apple moves industries follow. That won't be like that forever but it is currently.

I find that hard to believe. You're claiming plastic race-to-the-bottom laptop pc makers are building machines that last as long as all aluminium premium Macs? Fat chance.

Re the software issue, yeah, that's a pain. I do plan on putting Linux on it when I replace it with another Mac laptop, probably a M1. But that just furthers my point that Apple makes the best, longest lasting hardware.

But to each their own.

This is solved by the M1, that’s all I say. Your laptop is still much more expensive than a significantly better desktop PC.

M1 Macs can't do what that laptops does.

Simple as that.

People are not stupid, that might surprise you, but people use their money for the best, usually.

> Not to mention the unusable trackpad and keyboard

Have you ever heard of a device called "mouse"?

My friend uses another device entirely, it's called "WACOM CINTIQ PRO TOUCH 32"

because he cares about eronomics in his job, specific to his job, he doesn't need to show off with his friends.

> and the lack of video camera

are you familiar with the concept of a working machine?

> Or even the fact that this machine gets super hot and loud

have you ever thought that people don't care about it, because they are working and their job is not making less noise possible?

that's a feature only if your job requires absolute silence, rendering at X minutes per frame is not one of them.

People just don't care.

It's like saying that your washing machine is noisy.

Do you stare at it while it washes your underwear?

How many times people said that the Air is the "entry level" "low budget" Mac?

Which one is true?

Is it a luxury product or an entry level one?

I can quote many comments saying both things in the same thread.

Anyway, no company pays Lenovo full price and their discount policies are far more aggressive than Apple's.

There's a reason: Apple doesn't undersell, they don't care.

Lenovo, Dell, HP make volumes, they don't care to be a luxury brand.

The X1 carbon, paid full price, is for people who have money to waste.