Go to a brick and mortar electronics store, pick out a laptop that meets your desired specs, and do something realistic with it for a while. There are lots of little things I took for granted about Apple MacBooks that no Windows laptops could match. Touch pad, high dpi display, and cooling were never quite done right, but they are crucial for every day operations.
I'm with you on the touch pad, three-finger touch-drag in particular is something I've not found a PC do well; my PCs' scroll simulated scroll momentum is also buggy (scroll, stop scrolling, Ctrl+click to open new tab, messes up the font size instead because it's still stimulating mouse wheel movement)
I'm surprised to hear someone preferring macbooks cooling though, my macbook always gets so hot relative to other laptops
I would suggest not trying to source quality hardware from an electronics store. For software development, Thinkpads more then compete with MacBooks, the keyboard is considerably better too.
