I'm getting a laptop, and I'm too stupid to tell if the one I like is any good

[Subotan]

Why is that, it runs windows much better and you have a much better looking/feeling (yes feeling I love that keyboard and touchpad) machine to run it on. The latest line are also equipped with a solid graphical card have yet to see a hick-up. Awesome gaming machine means poor working machine, if you also want to use it for university I would get a good desktop and get a cheap wordpad for your notes.

Because:

But then, he needs to pay far more money in excess just for a machine branded "Mac".

And also, I don't play the latest, graphically intense games., so It'll probably do fine.

You need faster processor speeds. I believe Sims 3 for example needed 2.4 Dual Core as minimum, for example. The speeds in the laptops listed look quite far below that.

And I would be playing Sims 3...why?

Apple is a truly annoying company with all that guru-bull and their adds make me want to kill something, but imho they are worth their price as it are just excellent laptops. You pay a little bit more but when you translate that into the time you save using it it's a perfectly fine choice.

Maybe, but I just don't like them. I have an iPod to be fair, as they are the best MP3 players on the market, but the actual Macs? No way.