For home use - you can get a MS Signature edition laptop for little more money than you pay for cheap PCs. Everything is stock Windows and you can expect that t

For home use - you can get a MS Signature edition laptop for little more money than you pay for cheap PCs. Everything is stock Windows and you can expect that to work at least as well as OS X if not more. The problems start when you buy dodgy hardware loaded with ton of bloatware or crappy drivers - the signature edition PCs address that. If you need a UNIX like system and can't live with Cygwin or native Windows tools then yes, having OS X laptop and hardware is the way to go. Admittedly the Mac hardware is still a bit nicer than anything in PC space but the trouble is Windows support is not very great (look up trouble about System Interrupts taking a ton of CPU on both Windows and Linux running on Mac laptops for instance.)