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The cheapest Macbook Air on Costco (where I got my last one) is still $650. While the OS leaves something to be desired at times, the actual physical laptop itself is far superior in construction quality to everything I looked at five years ago. To get a similar quality aluminum case and solidity of function on a windows laptop would have cost me twice as much at the time.
Given that an even-decent quality Chromebook will run you in $400 range, you are better off splurging to get a nicer item, given how many hours you'll spend using it.
At least, that was my reasoning when I bought mine.
Macbooks excel in construction quality, battery life, and especially battery-life for high performance tasks, though that last isn't very important for word processing. I don't like the OSX UI, but that's not very important for word processing either. The only thing I'd caution is that something about my Macbook keyboard just doesn't "feel right" to me; I can't touch type quite as fast and I make more errors. I'm not sure if this is something real about the tactile feedback, or if I'd just get used to it if I used my laptop more frequently and other keyboards less frequently.
For me, the construction quality is the most important quality, which is why I chose a macbook four years ago.
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