Indeed. What you are pointing at, was destined to happen. As time will pass, our existence will only encourage us to build much better tools a.k.a technology. This is only out of desperation for the need of convenience and hope for better communication. It is each individual's responsibility (those affected with the after effects of being hooked to a technological bi-product) to realize and take the initiative of learning and adapting with advancing technologies and maintain the required ...
Well, as rightly pointed out by wishingW3L, Macbooks aren't different when it comes to the hardware. It's only the design and the operating system that pushes Macs way out of the PC category. The only problem is when Ubuntu is wrongly touted to be a Windows/ Mac replacement and even with the stability issues aside, it still has poor support for even mid-level hardare configuration (from 2007-2010's). It's because of certain popular online media that such claims are wrongly put...