Agreed. Also not an Apple enthusiast by any means, but there are a few traits, each of which by itself would make me consider buying a given machine: trackpad, uptime/stability, restore time, *nix under the hood out of the box, and the hardware is built to really last. Nothing even comes close to MBP in these categories.

For a casual/dev (non-gaming, etc.) use machine, it's difficult to see myself ever using something else.