Apple now sells second tier products at first+ tier prices. Apple has fallen behind to me-too status yet again.
It's hilarious that the Apple fanboys here are attacking me. I actually went to the Apple store in AZ wanting to buy a MacBook (I used to be a big Mac user back in the day), and was shocked at how sucky the offerings were. They haven't updated these suckers in 2 years! So I went with the new Dell XPS 13. Wife just got the 15 which has a Thunderbolt port (she does video editing, for which it screams). Tim Cook took his eye off the ball. Perhaps in 2016 he will update these things to beat Dell.