It's all a matter of irrationalization.
For years, we have been assured by friends that we will never be fully human until we switch to Mac. Since many of those same people--greater than chance, I believe--are not fully human, I find the argument unpersuasive. (I will, however, be open to being convinced by what I read in this forum, now that you have opened the topic.)
As long as I have had laptops, I have had ThinkPads from IBM.