I dislike these questions because they almost feel like bait.

As in, someone is going to try to refute the arguments for choosing a Mac over a PC but usually only in the shallowest of ways.

> 12h battery

"Well, the spec of a dell XPS with a 6-cell upgrade says 12 hours!"

> Thin and light

"Well, the HP Spectre is lighter!"

> MacOS is a good OS and works quite well

"Linux is good these days!"

> Magsafe

"You can buy a magNeo..." or "Well, that's not such a big issue!"

Pedantry aside, my point is that the whole package was just _slightly_ better than the alternatives. No single thing was causing the platform to be so good. The answers to these topics rarely look holistically.

And, no, I'm not a Mac fanboy- I like it enough because it has MS Office and Exchange integration along with a slew of other proprietary tools needed to work with my Microsoft heavy company, tools which do not work at all on Linux. And I cannot possibly stand Windows. (But, otherwise would prefer Linux on my precision 5520)