Let there be no more debate! You're buying a laptop, and I give you $1200, and you get to keep the change. Do you buy a PC or a Mac?
We used Macs in 1996. That means that we get to wear these T-shirts if we want to. Those were the Gil Amelio days, when Apple was dead, Windows had won, and we were all going to march in for our Two-Minutes Hate just like the commercial had said back in 1984.
Now Apple is cool again, and it seems like everyone owns one, but is that actually true?
If I gave you 1200 bucks to buy yourself a laptop, and you get to keep the change, will you walk out with a PC or a Mac?
In addition to being built on rock and roll, this site was also built on a Mac. I... ah... didn't pay $1200 for it. I might've paid a bit more.
Mac! $1200 will buy me an 11 inch MacBook Air w/128GB. For a laptop, I just need good web browsing, casual document editing, simple photo downloading/viewing (not heavy editing). But I already have a 27" iMac i5 sitting on my home office desk - so my laptop would not have to be a desktop replacement.
$600 buys a fairly hot PC notebook...good enough. I do however lust for one of the Mac desktop units at about $1200.
You have more options with a pc, and $1,200 can get you way more speed 'n feed than a MacBook!