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I've found my MBP worth the price for the following reasons:

- I enjoy the 8 hour battery life (This alone may have been worth it)

- The light up keyboard

- The feel of the keyboard

- It can drive my high resolution external display

- The screen works outside in the sun

- Extra large track pad, with gesture recognition

- It's thin

- The speaker quality

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Battery life is maybe the only thing on that list that has anything to do with productivity. I'll even be generous and throw in the high res external display as an added productivity perk. The rest of the things on your list are nice to have, but many of them are available in much cheaper laptops. The screen working outside in the sun is also debatable unless you're talking about the matte screen, which costs extra.

Again, I use a MBP as my primary computer and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I would argue that a satisfying keyboard is also important for a software developer.

Some of the things I mentioned are probably not important for productivity. But in my case my work laptop and my personal laptop are the same. So a light-up keyboard and good speakers are nice to have when watching movies on a Friday night with my wife (For example).

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