Moral of the story - people don't spend a dime on a normal laptop, but spend a fortune on an Apple product and then they are impressed by the "build quality". If people, like this author, get a Mac Book and a laptop for a similar price with similar specs, you would notice that the build quality is the same. I am rather tired of people comparing 1000 bucks laptops to 2000 Mac books. They are not in the same category. Take a 2000 Apple product to 2000 Dell, for example, products and then we are talking. The Dell does not fall to the Mac at all, even surpasses it in almost everything, even build quality. People are just willing to pay the extra mile if it has the Apple on it. Sure you might argue about the aesthetics, but if something is a personal opinion - then aesthetics is the first one on the list.
Usability - you might like it. For a lot of us, Mac is a plague for professional work. Graphic Design, CAD, 3D work, VFX work, editing, content creation - Mac is behind a comparably priced ultra book. And if someone wants to argue that those are things for a desktop power house - you are wrong. There are types of projects and types of needs. Most of the people can run all their visual professional work on a modest 500 bucks system. If you just write word documents - I can give you a Pentium D system with a Win 7 and it will be "blazing fast" in your eyes.
The complete section about the "mysticism" of the Apple product is completely ridiculous.
This article is completely biased and it shows the opinion of a person with a very limited experience. I do not think these type of articles should be present Tom's Hardware. This is a place where we search the truth, we look at the latest technologies, their development and their limitations and strengths.
TL;DR version:
I did spend a fortune on a Mac book, but I was not willing to spend the same on a product from a competing company, so for me the Mac is the best, because I have no basis for comparison.