You missed the point of the paragraph and cherry picked a sentence out of context. The first two sentences of the paragraph you cite are:
"For me, the answers are easy. It’s the software that matters most to me. "
He then partners iOS and Mac OS software on competitor hardware because it is the software that matters most to him. He isn't using the ThinkPad as an example of "inferior hardware".
"That's the point. Gruber threw up a billboard in paragraph four that says, if you think it's at all unclear that the MacBook Pro is the greatest laptop design of all time, read no further."
"For me, the answers are easy. It’s the software that matters most to me. "
He then partners iOS and Mac OS software on competitor hardware because it is the software that matters most to him. He isn't using the ThinkPad as an example of "inferior hardware".
"That's the point. Gruber threw up a billboard in paragraph four that says, if you think it's at all unclear that the MacBook Pro is the greatest laptop design of all time, read no further."
No, he didn't.