Does the look and design of a Mac affect you?

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Lew Zealand wrote:
Dell laptop designs are pretty functional, with little concern for form and that is where they fail miserably. You do spend a lot of time looking at your laptop and that's where Apple has hit it's home run - the laptop designs are pretty damn good with very good to excellent function following excellent form.

XPS 13? Smaller and lighter than the 13" MacBook Pro retina (I think lighter than the 13" Air as well), but still comparably specced. Nice design as well.

Lew Zealand wrote: The issue comes from the minority of us who like a bit of upgradability. Put another way, we still want to max out our Mac but would rather do it over time for less $ instead of up front for more $$$.

This. Apple makes me feel like I'm either overpaying up front, just in case, or risking upgrading the whole computer sooner because I might not have the specs quite right. Neither makes me feel good about my purchase.