First of all, yes, it costs an arm and a leg. It took me a week until I was able to recover emotionally from the heavy blow this purchase has done to my wallet—don’t even ask how long it is taking took to recover financially. Don’t get me wrong though. I am extremely satisfied with this PC (like it or not, it is a PC. get over it!). While it is true that I could get a way more powerful windows PC for the same price, it’s really the small details in the software and hardware that is making the biggest difference. While I could probably customise windows or linux to do the same things, it would take some time–and I don’t have time for that anymore.

• the F keys – by default, the function keys work as hardware controls for brightness, volume, media, etc.—how often do you use the function keys anyway? I’m a developer and I do use Function keys quite often, but I only use F5 and F11 most of the time. I change the volume and brightness of my laptop more frequently than I press F5 and F11. If you don’t like this, you can opt to switch them to normal Function keys on the settings.
• easy access to théśê łêttėrš – it takes less than 3 seconds to type each of those special characters. By holding the letter ‘o’, a selection of o’s appear on top of the cursor. It’s useful for when I’m typing something in Romaji where ō is occasionally used. (I’m studying Japanese) If I tried that on other PC’s, this is what I would see: oooooooooooooooooo
• kana – it’s as simple as typing romaji, really. if you’re writing something in kanji, just type the word in hiragana or katakana, then press the keyboard until you find the one you need. It makes Windows IME feel difficult to use (it’s actually pretty good too)
• plastic casings – good luck finding housings/casings, accessories, or matching peripherals for other laptops.
• no need for a mouse – when I’m not playing, I don’t bother connecting my usb mouse, because I can navigate faster on the trackpad than with a mouse. The gestures, sadly are not as ob
• terminal – when searching for solutions for my programming problems, I sometimes encounter answers based on UNIX shell scripts. unfortunately, my work pc’s have all been windows pc’s and I have to indicate the OS in my query.
• Really low brightness setting – my last two laptops, an Asus and a Lenovo both have a very bright 1/10 brightness setting.  I have to open a lamp to lessen the eye strain (and to see the non backlit keyboard.)
• Ridiculously fast booting time – three. seconds. nuff’ said.
• Logical, natural trackpad scroll gesture – have you ever pushed something up, and then it moves down? Me neither. If you like the illogical ways…you can opt to change back to that. (but why?)
• Antivirus? LOL – To be fair, I was never infected by anything when I was still using windows, but that was because I was careful. The only known viruses for mac live in shoddy pr0n sites that requires you to click something. You have to be a special kind of pervy to reach that hole.
• No stickers!—except for the two unattached apple stickers that come with the packaging. I used to think having an “Intel Inside” sticker was cool…then I grew up. I want my PC clean inside and out. No power saving stickers or bloatware from parts-manufacturers.
• I was promised 9 hours of battery—-and I was able to squeeze 10! #trueStory.
• I won’t miss windows. I hate windows 8, but I still like Microsoft, specially now that they’re more open than ever (thanks to CEO Satya Nadella). I can install Windows 10 when it comes out later this year.
• tag file management – I wish all OSes have this capability. Tags are the most effective way to organise your files and folders, specially movies: with tags, I can organise movies by genre, year, AND director.

Things that I didn’t like:

• It doesn’t play well with NTFS hard drives. I didn’t notice this at first because I was using Seagate HDDs that come with free NTFS for Mac OS X. If I really need to connect to other drives, I have to buy apps for that.
• It’s HOT—and not the Emma Stone kind of hot. I had to buy a separate laptop fan just to keep this thing cool.
• It makes me want and need to buy other things. I already mentioned accessories like casings, and laptop fans, but you’ll also want to buy a keyboard cover, an apple mouse (i don’t need this), and maybe a matching Jony Ive designed JBL SoundSticks Speaker…All of them, expensive.
• I can’t go back! Just weeks from buying my Lenovo and Asus Laptops and I already found myself scratching on PC shops’ windows, drooling of the other options that I didn’t pick. Not this time though. I’m perfectly happy with what I picked, many months after buying this. After this, I think I have no choice but get another macbook—or whatever they’ll call its next iteration 5-7 years from now.