I was very much into Apple mid 2000's, but post 2012 might as well just buy a tablet. I had a 2009 Macbook Pro that is still in use by my Mother-In-law. Core2Duo, 8GB of RAM, 1TB Harddrive when I gave it to her. I put an SSD in it, and loaded Win 7 when Apple dropped support. Had a co-worker ask me to take a look at a Macbook air the other week, liquid damage. It's a tablet with some proprietary m2 like SSD tacked on. three circuit boards, a battery, and a trackpad. Replacing the keyboard on one of these is a nightmare.
Same thing with the new Pro model laptops.
Then they took everything pro out of the MacBook Pro. In the quest for thin and light the ports, graphics, and everything else have been stripped from the 13.3.
I moved to Linux for just about everything. KDE gives OS X a run for the money on the desktop and Ubuntu/SuSE/Mint, etc... provide an excellent Stable platform with a little research.