Ermm... system restore is time machine, without the fancy GUI, nor the ability to have your desktop filled with porn on x day. Image copying has been around for awhile, its not exclusive to Apple.
You're trying to compare Microsoft against Apple, Windows is everything, my domain is much bigger then OSX's, I am able to choose whatever I damn well please if I can access it on this laptop.
NCIX support is good, they nit pick so you don't get repeat RMA customers that constantly come back complaining shit don't work, they deal with a lot more brand's & laptops, then Apple has to with 3 models.
Even then, my own dealings with Apple is garbage, 2 ipod's dead, no replacement because of "wear & tear". To each their own experiences, your own is not the world's.
They are two different OS's, an X86 platform written from the core system files of Vista, to improve upon. OSX is a recently rewritten x86 linux OS licensed for Apple, before, it was made to work on PowerPC's. Please show me in what synthetic/real world benchmarks do Apple's run faster compared to an identical PC laptop, their GUI applies the oldest trick in the book, with an illusion of it "slipping up" on the screen, tricking the eye that its open already, when reality, its still loading.
Tom's hardware did a side by side loading test a few years back, with both of them coming up at the same time. the only major de facto Apple has over Windows is they have the ability to quick boot. Thats coming in Windows 8.
Again, Battery life is not superior to concurrent ultra books on the market, can you stop making shit up on the spot.
Samsung NP900X4C-A01CA Intel Core i5 3317UM 8GB 128GB SSD 15IN HD+ WLAN Win7 HP Notebook Ultrabook - Samsung - NP900X4C-A01CA
A competitor to the base MBP, with the
same battery cell nodes used.
In fact, let me link you the entire Ultrabooks page.
Notebooks - Ultrabooks Toshiba, ASUS, Samsung, Acer, HP Consumer
If you would stop comparing $500 laptops towards the MB/Air/Pro, you'd have better facts.