I always find myself defending my decision to purchase an
Apple laptop when visiting friends or clients. Not that I care that I am light years ahead of them or anything, but I always find myself saying the same thing. After I connect to their network, access the internet and print to their windows printers they all start to say, "... hmmm OS X is pretty slick". That is usually followed up with "... but they are expensive and I couldn't afford one". I usually explain that Apple doesn't make "cheap" computers and if you compare apples to apples (no pun intended) they are about the same. It turns out someone else took the time to do a real comparison. You can read his article and comparison about the
least expensive laptop.