I'm actually heavily, heavily leaning in that direction too, and am curious if there will be sort of a surprise announcement of new MBPr models next week at Apple's event. For the past two years the October event has seen a release party for refreshed MBPs.
Intel
may just have the standard-power mobile Broadwell out, perhaps enough to satisfy one major vendor like Apple. They've been shy about discussing Broadwell, and have really only talked about the low-wattage units. I think their was separate word once regarding "other units", back in August, that basically suggested some units may debut with hardware vendors "in the coming months."
Regardless, there's your Facebook-using, classroom note taking MacBook users who simply want it because... whatever random reason. If you fall into that class - get what you want.
I still actually really like Windows, and am excited for Windows 10... I have the tech preview dual-booting alongside Xubuntu on an ancient laptop that I think gets about 45 minutes to a charge at this point - old battery plus, perhaps, OS's that aren't friendly toward a $500 Acer laptop from ~2006
But in some respects, Apple and NEXT really focused on the creative arts of all kinds, and the platform has blossomed for such activities. The entire window server was originally coded with PostScript, iirc, and the system handles color profiles for displays and printers far better than Windows. I don't know if other Unix-derived systems are that way, but to be fair, while development focus for OS X pales in comparison to Windows, it blows away other Unix-derived systems.
That's not to say you can't get the same tasks done in Windows or other platforms, but... it's not really the same.
I noticed it rather simply after having completely dismissing OS X for all my life. Working with Lightroom and Photoshop in Windows is easy, sure, but getting into display calibrations and hearing that OS X handles things differently, I gave that a try. That was really all it took, because I'm typing this on my hackintosh that I dual boot with Windows 8.1 and prefer this for general day-to-day, even when I don't touch my photos for weeks on end.
I'll never fully abandon Windows, especially when it comes to simply making things easy when interacting with the corporate world (and I don't think I'll ever give up PC gaming, so I'll continue my build and upgrade cycles) but for what OS X offers, the prices on current MBPr's aren't actually that out of line. They have phenomenal battery life, and while they rarely compete in terms of discrete GPUs, the rest of the hardware is leveraged perfectly. Look at comparable laptops with Windows and check out the performance metrics and benchmarks.
You get the compatibility of GNU/Linux, with less freedom than Windows.
What's that even supposed to mean?
In relative terms, I'd argue it's not even close: in the general world, compatibility with OS X is far greater than GNU/anything, be it Linux, *BSD, etc.
Microsoft is the largest OS X developer - they wouldn't even bother if the world didn't actively use Mac systems. Note that they don't actively develop on any other desktop OS. You can basically skate through standard corporate career using nothing but Mac's if you utilize the right software. You might have to pay for MS Office for Mac to ensure document compatibility, since MS Office will likely always dominate the document software business, but that would depend on how you need to use productivity software. In many ways you can use FOSS document software, but file compatibility sharing with MS Office users can get iffy real quick.