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MacBook: better screen, keyboard, speakers, battery life, milled aluminum unibody, has airdrop/App Store.

Apple's trackpads are leaps and bounds better than any other I've tried.

Sorry but ThinkPad's keyboard is way better. Apple is too stubborn to improve theirs.

The Mac keyboards have improved but there are so many more options on the Windows side it's not even funny - and I don't know if Apple has ever made a laptop with a numpad, which can be terribly important for some people.

Some manufacturers can be quite a crapshoot with the keyboard layout (fortunately that's plainly visible when shopping for a laptop), but Lenovo is pretty consistent with the ThinkPad layout, even if they're dubiously creating these low end plastic frame lines that pointlessly devalue their brand.

Nobody remembers that brand as being "IBM's laptops", they don't have that to borrow value against, they should take care of the ThinkPad line's reputation.

Apple never had a numpad on its laptops. Since the aluminum unibody design, the Apple laptops outshine all Windows laptops because of the touchpad alone. Nothing compares to it. On a Macbook I don't want to use a mouse, on a Windows laptop I don't want to use the touchpad. I've never had any touchpad that really worked for me, so without thinking about it. The fact that they still have those buttons and that I have to use two hands, or move my fingers away from the touchpad, or lift my fingers from the touchpad to tap to click - unbelievable that they haven't figured this out.

The Mac just works. The only time the touchpad doesn't work is when you need pixel precise selection like in photo editing, and even then it outshines all Windows touchpads.

All Windows laptops I've had look outdated after two years. I've had three Macbooks, the previous two 5 and 7 years, and both didn't look outdated, not even used

The body, magsafe, touchpad, no stupid privacy settings, disk encryption, no OS licensing - this laptop works for me. With Windows it's always waiting for the time that it doesn't work like expected or doesn't work at all.

I am not sure what are you talking about: Windows laptops had the same hardware and similar gestures since, at least, 2013. The vast majority of Windows laptops don't have buttons on touchpad (the Thinkpad in this thread actually does but those are buttons to be used with the "touchpoint", the antique IBM control with the red "pimple" in the middle of the keyboard, the touchpad itself supports the standard Windows Precision gestures so buttons are not needed). Using a Windows laptop at home and a Mac at work I see no difference in touchpad performance, except that Windows gesture for selection is easier to pull off than the Mac's but this could be just my preference as I mostly use Mac with a mouse anyways.

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