You have made the same brain dead, BS comparison 1000 times and I have exposed it a 1000x. In the real world 85% of laptop buyers will be happy with a high quality $500 Intel powered laptop like my buddy got a few days ago/////// i5 processor and 8gb memory by Toshiba
Very few need the overspeced overkill of the $2000 Apple and Dell laptops you are comparing. So your comparisons are crap. Utter crap!
Your "utter crap!" laptop will last about two years, if that, and you will have to buy another one. In the six years that Apple Laptops are known to last, you will likely succeed in needing to BUY THREE of your $500 Toshiba junk plastic laptops with low rez screens and low capacity batteries to equal the lifetime usage of the Apple Macbook. The Apple will still have resale value of several hundred dollars at the end of it's time with you, so you sell it to finance your upgrade, while your discount Windows laptop is junk you throw away. . .
DennisW, you've never, ever exposed anything by bringing up a discount laptop comparison except to show you know the price of all the junk, and the value of NOTHING.
Apple does not compete for the bottom of the barrel discount market, which you've been told before, every time you claim that your piece of junk can "do what people need done."
Nor are my "comparisons utter crap" because they compare notebooks and laptops or desktops and workstation grade computers from Apple with the offerings in the SAME competitive levels, targeted toward the same market with the same quality components and configurations. I will NOT compare a quality Apple product with a junk Windows machine as do you. They are NOT "lets find the cheapest computer running Windows and see what price I can find it being sold on close-out discount" and claim it is the equivalent of a high-end, high-performance, high-quality product with a suite of software. BAH! i am willing to bet that your friend's Toshiba doesn't have a 256GB SSD, nor did it weigh under 2 lbs, as did both of the compared laptops I was looking at in my comparison. . . The one I found just now weighed more than TWICE that. . . Oh, and the $549 pricing was on CLOSE-OUT, and it was out of stock! I will say, that as a Windows laptop it was a nice machine.
On the Toshiba website you CAN configure a Portege R30-A1320 laptop that is the almost equivalent of the Dell and Apple I was comparing. . . but the 1366x768 screen resolution (720P) of the Toshiba Portage is not even close to the Apple's 2304 x 1440 Retina display, the battery life of 6-7 hours is no where close to the 14 hours you get with the Apple, its weight is far heavier at 3.37lbs than the Apple's 2 lbs, . . . but Toshiba at $1599 without software, IS $100 more expensive than the Apple with a full suite of software. . . WOW! What a bargain. LOL!