> A typical Windows laptop is unusable after two, three years (almost all are made from plastic which breaks or looks extremely ugly rather sooner than later), and has next to no resale value while in contrast even old cheesegrater Mac Pro's fetch many hundreds of dollars today.

By "typical windows laptop" do you mean a cheap model where the macbook equivalent is buying nothing at all? Of course it's going to be lacking in that case.

Well-made windows laptops exist, and hold plenty of value. But you have to pay for that, no matter what brand you choose.

> tracking bullshit

Like checking signing certificates by pinging servers almost every time you run a program?