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I have a discontinued Dell I bought a couple years ago for school and its crashed again (hard drive failures, multiple times) and I'm in the market to actually buy a good computer. I'm curious to hear your opinions, I honestly don't need or care for a Mac, I've used them before and I just like PC's, but I am open to hear why I should choose a Mac other than the "OMG they are the bestest EVARRRR!!!!1!!!!1!1!". I consider myself to know a good deal about computers, but personal experience with other computers and companies is apprieciated. Right now I am looking at the IBM (Leveno) Thinkpad T series, but not sold on it quite yet. I would like to stay at or under $1000. So what would you recommend?

I don't do video editing or anything Mac people love them for.