Cheap PC laptops are garbage in comparison. Good quality ones are as good or better. I used to build gaming desktops, and I could build a better, faster computer, with higher quality parts(gamer enthusiast parts have better PCBs and components), and they would last 10 years, I'd give them to relatives when they were obsolete for my purposes. I'd end up saving somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500 compared to buying an Apple computer, and it was a better computer to boot.
Alienware, Asus, Dell XPS, and such are better laptops than anything Apple offers, and they are cheaper. I play the latest PC games on my Alienware laptop, and it runs them high/ultra with no problems(10 series GPUs are almost the same as desktop GPUs, mobile videocards used to be much worse).
I had a 20 dollar Android smartphone that lasted me 3 years, upgraded it to a 60 dollar one, been working fine for the last year.
I just don't get the appeal of Apple, never have. Lower quality products that you can't fix yourself, that cost more. Maybe I'm missing something.