I like your post and think this is common attitude towards consumption among some techies, but I find it interesting that laptop brand still gets mentioned.
Well it is information significant to compatibility so it actually has functional value to know. Unlike clothes brands - it isn't like if you (deliberately mangling brand associations to be nonsensical) wear Victoria's Secret Pants with a Stetson Jacket they will not work or catch on fire due to incompatability.
the fact that it's a macbook means you can develop apps for apple products whereas any other labtop that would be extremely difficult to do, if not impossible.
