I agree there is a good amount of stylish that sells the laptop, but there are several other factors: - The apple hardware runs OS X. Looking to have OS X,

I agree there is a good amount of stylish that sells the laptop, but there are several other factors: - The apple hardware runs OS X. Looking to have OS X, but without buying new hardware this is a very well known route. Not only that, but OS X runs pretty well on yesterdays hardware. Can't say the same about Vista. - The apple hardware is pretty well known. If I am selling a macbook you can easily look it up to see if that model supports X, or can be upgraded to Y. Can't do that as much with random Windows laptops - People don't go looking on ebay for a lenevo T61, they do search for macbook. More buyers, better price. - The mac hardware is usually pretty good which helps at resale time. gig networking, wifi, cd/dvd burner etc have all been in every laptop I have sold. - And of course, factor X which is the fact that people actually want to have a Mac laptop, be it because it is cool or the fact that it just works for so many things. I am probably missing other factors, but I can tell you this: This spring I sold my G4 667 laptop (from 2002!) and still got $350 dollars for it. I don't know if I could get over $50 for a Windows one.