As someone who has been in the IT industry for over 15 years, and repairs PC laptops primarily, I can tell you going home to my Macbook is a joy. I wasn't always into Apple products, and would be the first to bash Apple in the past. Building a sweet PC gaming rig in the late 90's early 2K's was where I spent my time, and no one was going to convince me differently. Even doing a co-op at a 3rd party Apple store where they swore by the end they would have me a convert didn't work.
20 years later, (and family life with little time for gaming except the xb1x) I swear by macOS. Yes, Lenovo, Dell, and HP make some ok products, but only in the very high end segment. I doubt you'll find many who would contest the fact Lenovo makes the best laptop keyboard. Period.
I've worked for large government agencies that solely bought the Lenovo T and X series, HP Elitebook Series, and Dell Latitude series laptops.
What I find funny, and mentioned in another thread, is that all big PC manufactures use crap 300 nit, and many times sub 300nit high end business class notebooks. And here Apple stuck in a 300nit decent IPS panel into the Air. HP has started to change this as of the recent 840 G5 line, using a minimum of 400nit panels, with the option for even a 700nit but they are the only one. Lenovo is offering the HDR 500+ nit panel, but only in the highest spec'd X1 Carbon 6th gen. And while as of this year I believe Lenovo and HP are using IPS panels across the board for the T and Elitebook series (unless you spec the base base base model, and then you're still getting a HD TN), Dell is still shipping crap displays. I know... I'm typing on one right now. A latitude E7490 with a FHD TN Panel in a $2k laptop... no excuses for that.
I do agree that many of the PC manufactures give you similar specs, or better (except the LCD) for cheaper prices then Apple, but you are at the mercy of the build quality, sub par support, & crap re-sale value. The XPS line looks nice, but that's all I have to say about it. I used 3, and all 3 had coil wine. These were the 9370. Also, the fan's would spin up when doing the lightest tasks. I don't hate Dell's, but they have been known to use whatever parts on are the floor, QA could definitely use an overhaul, and as I deal with the latitude line at work, hundreds of them, they have a high failure rate with issues ranging from small cosmetic overlooks, various hardware issues when new out of box, to major failures.
HP Elitebooks on the other hand are decent. HP IMO has some of the best Customer Support, although this is for the Elitebook support. I've called at 5pm to order parts and had them delivered 9am the next day. Very very nice and easy to deal with. Also, I've been pretty impressed with the displays they are using this year, that being said though my work Elitebook x360 1030 G2 $3000 laptop had a 250 nit display. Pure garbage.
Lenovo, amazing keyboards. Build quality... meh. Displays are crap. Above Dell, but still using sub standard IPS Panels with low 300nit or 280nit unless you option for that HDR panel. Yes, they are very thin and light though.
I've worked on thousands of Dell, HP, and Lenovo laptops, Everything ranging from the Inspiron line to the XPS and Latitude, the HP Elitebooks, Probooks, and Pavillion line, and Lenovo's T and X line.
So I can honestly say, that no matter how good the price is, whatever deal HP, Dell, and Lenovo could offer me, I will still happily pay the extra to use a Macbook. And yes, Apple is far from perfect. They equally have their faults, and design flaws. But service is pretty good, MacOSX is sooo much nicer to use then Windows, and battery is almost, if not, industry leading.
And then their is the fact you are buying something with Windows 10. You pay 2-3K for a fully loaded, decked out laptop, and when you first fire it up and hit the start button, the first thing you are greeted with is a bunch of square panels advertising Candy Crush & Netflix. Ugh...
