Apple's industrial design is astounding. And it IS design, not just clunky assembly.
Pick up an iPod Touch. Would you think, even a couple of years ago, that something that wafer-thin could show full movies and browse the web with an intuitive interface?
And my Macbook Pro...the thing is the laptop equivalent of a Stradivarius violin. It's just...perfect. Fast, reliable, can multitask huge creative-product apps without a crash or performance hiccup, just cranks out product day after day after day. Which is what you ought to expect by 2008.
My laptop is a Dell XPS M2010. 18.3 lbs, 20 inch monitor, RAID'd HD's, full sized keyboard, and running Server 2003. I've load tested production apps on it before that'd kill a top of the line server from a couple years ago. Oh yes, comes standard with wireless headphones, mouse, gyroscopic remote (kinda like a Wii), TV tuner and built in cell modem.
It's the laptop equivalent of an Abrams tank.