In article , Nathan
Hale wrote:

I can buy a decent 15.6" brand new laptop for less than $400.

yes you can, and possibly even for less than that, however, it will not
have anywhere near the same specs as a 15" macbook pro.

You won't be buying a brand new 15" macbook pro for less than
$400 either.

because a macbook pro has far better specs than a $400 computer will
have.

the display on that $400 noname piece of junk won't be a wide gamut
dci-p3 retina display that's found on a macbook pro, nor will that $400
noname piece of junk have a touchid sensor or thunderbolt 3 (40 gb/s).

Better guess again and do a little shopping, 'cause you're wrong
on both counts.

which $400 laptop has a wide gamut dci-p3 retina display, touch id and
thunderbolt 3, as well as comparable in other specs to a macbook pro?

none, that's what.

microsoft's surface laptop starts at $1000 with a paltry 128 gig ssd, 4
gig memory and an i5 processor, more than twice your noname piece of
junk with unknown specs.

Who said anything about a surface?

i did.

some of microsoft's computers cost *more* than apple, notably the
surface studio, starting at $3000, roughly *double* that of a similar
size imac, with the main difference being it pivots and the imac does
not.