Seriously, what is so magical about Mac build quality?
Nothing. It's bunk. Most reputable laptop manufacturers all have comparable build quality unless you're getting the damn thing for free, but even then I'm willing to bet the thing will live long enough for you to replace it because you want something faster, not because it broke down.
A modern MacBook has no mouse buttons since it is multitouch. They are simply the best mouse pad on any laptop currently available.
My feeling having gone the other way some time back is that a MacBook is the cheapest way of getting a decent UNIX laptop with all the hardware working, plus the hardware is well built and the OS works nicely. You can even run Linux on a MacBook if you really want to go that route. The build quality of most PC laptops is so poor that you end up paying just as much for a good Windows laptop to run Linux as you would buying a MacBook.
After the first paragraph... simply not true. Just... ugh. Really? Why deny that Apple's hardware is simply more expensive like 99% of the time? Because it is. I've never once paid more than $999 for a laptop, and I've always gotten top-notch hardware. It's no super high-end gaming rig, but even if I was looking for that I definitely wouldn't be spending up in the MacBook price range. Absolutely ridiculous.
Your claim on build quality is absolutely nuts. Apple people love to throw this claim around like we all will just automatically accept it. It's expensive, it's gotta be the best, right? Complete bunk. I'm not saying Apple is shit here, because it's not. They make perfectly decent hardware. But it's certainly not the best. End of story.
Anyway, I really replied just to say no buttons on something that's supposed to act like a mouse would absolutely drive me nuts.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs