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Ewwww those Dells are so fucking UGLY! Spending a lot of money on one of those things and booting up to a Windows XP screen would seriously depress me. PC laptop design needs drastic change. Before, at least they looked durable and had a somewhat utilitarian design (ThinkPads are a good example). Now they just look embarassing.

I don't own one, but I think Macs are great. OSX is beautiful - I've used it enough and have never encountered any stability issues with it. Besides gaming, you can do virtually anything else you could do on a PC with a Mac, and Mac warez are not that difficult to find. In conclusion, I would get a used ThinkPad and install Linux on it.