The battery is as good as most other laptops with the exception of the Microsoft Surface 2* and maybe one other. The keyboard does jam sometimes, but a little compressed air resolved all of my bad jams. The price is higher than others, and I do not agree with that, but no other laptop has the full package, so I'll have to pay the MacOS tax. At least the resale value of these computers is much better than a PC. As for the trackpad is the best part of these laptops.

It sounds to me like you've never owned a Mac.

As for open sourcing their hardware, I really couldn't care less. That's a problem for other manufacturers, not Apple.

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