I’ve used a lot of laptops in my life. Personally, I’ve owned a half dozen and at the companies I’ve worked at I’ve supported dozens if not hundreds of different models.
Most of them are terrible – they feel shoddy, have bad screens and often just don’t work correctly.
The MacBook Pro is in a whole different class. It feels like alien technology someone stole and brought to earth. Everything on it just works correctly. It is perfectly balanced, cleverly designed and just feels solid enough to stop bullets (I don’t recommend trying that out).
Being a retina model, it also has a beautiful screen that is the best I’ve ever used on any laptop by a very far margin.
Along with my 100mm macro lens, one of the best things I have ever bought.
Anyone who tells you that a $500 Best Buy special is just as good as this piece of embodied elegance is absolutely full of shit.