Are you suggesting that the only reason to buy a Mac is to look cool?[/b]
Yes. I'm sure there are other reasons, but by and large this is what I feel the main, overriding one is. Do you want your laptop to actually have sex appeal? Buy a Mac. PCs do not look pretty. I would, personally (and bear in mind this is a personal opinion and not exactly unbiased) not buy a Mac because frankly appearance doesn't matter that much to me at all.

Is there no real difference between the mac and the Pc.[/b]
No. Not really. A PC is a PC. A Mac is a PC, a personal computer in every way shape and form, and because of the switch to (Intel, isn't it?) a different chipset there is now very little difference. A Mac does tend to run less software because it is less commonplace than Windows.

OS X itself is based on I think it's BSD or some form of *nix. So as far as stability etc goes, why pay for OS X? You would want to get *nix instead.

The only difference to me as far as PCs and Macs are concerned is the price tag. The very large, holy-shit price tag.

If so what is the difference, someone mentioned graphics, is that the main difference?[/b]
Yes. A Mac will look very pretty, because it uses OS X and desktop composition with something called Quartz. It's hot. Vista on a PC looks OK, but it has nothing on OS X. Linux looks like shit. Macs look very nice.

Is one anymore stable/reliable than the other?[/b]
No. I'm sure someone will be very eager to tell me how wrong I am and that I am surely a disciple of Microsoft etc, but I've seen Vista installations running for months on end just fine. I've seen Mac installstions run months on end. Linux installations that go for months on end.

My own installation of Vista has yet to 'crash'. But it all depends what programs you run - and whether your programs are buggy or not - not so much on the OS itself. Macs are just as stable as PCs. If you abuse your Mac or PC by downloading any spyware and crap, you will have an unstable, crap computer. Don't blame that on the OS.

It is worth noting Macs can only run one real OS, OS X (although slightly dodgy solutions are being brewed by Apple so you can run Windows too), and so the only comparison on the Mac side of the fence is with OS X for stability/appearance etc. Many more OSes tend to run on your PCs. You could compare OS X with Vista, 98, Debian, Gentoo, la-dee-dah. So the comparisons are a bit dodgy.

To everyone, is there such a thing as high speed internet via satellite connection?[/b]
Yes. Definitely.