I don&#x27;t know that I buy the varied hardware thing much anymore.  I mean, it&#x27;s either AMD or Intel, a few chipsets, very few integrated video and it&#x27;s well defined.<p>Support for dedicated video can be spotty I suppose, but most macs don&#x27;t even have that so I&#x27;d just ignore it.<p>As far as controlling the hardware, it sounds like a good point, but I&#x27;d be surprised if Apple had less than 100 different variations on their laptop&#x2F;desktop models over the last 5 years.