I'd equate buying a Mac to buying a Porsche..... They are really pretty and 'hip'. It'd be like buying a designer purse.
You walk into the store and everyone is super into fashion and shit. There's some homo erotic trance music going on and the employees are half walking around, half dancing and smiling their spindley asses around the store in their faggoty cardigan pullovers. Some gay guy named Trinity that is listening to his IPOD will walk up to you with a smile and ask you how he can make your Apple experience a sssssplendid one.
You end up buying this 'macbook' for 1k+, and end up promptly buying $300 worth of Apple brand proprietary overpriced accessories.
So you buy your Macbook, and get it home. Opening the laptop will be an experience. Set an evening aside for it, because you may shed a tear at how 'pretty' everything is laid out in the box.
Very rewarding so far. As you use the mac, you'll have a number of 'how cool am I now that I have an Macbook' moments.
You turn it on for the first time and your jaw will drop as the pretty apple on the back 'glistens'.
As you go to plug in the laptop to the wall, you'll notice that the cord magnetically sucks itself into the laptop... 'Whhhoa'
You turn on the laptop and you're greeted by a video of one of Trinity's cousins (in a cardigan pullover) teaching you everything you need to know about your pretty new designer laptop.
And then, several months later, when Trinity is yet a faint memory, and you couldn't give a flying f**k about the fact that your laptop has a magnetic cord or an apple shaped light on the back, you'll realize that is what you really paid for was aesthetics; that for the same price, you could've got a new PC laptop with a bigger screen, higher resolution, better video card, more programs, more accesories, much higher processing power and memory and upgradability for the same, or a much lower price.
You'll notice that parts or accessories for your laptop will be over 3X the price of their PC counterparts, and if you ever are going to need that Macbook worked on, you're going to have to take it to Trinity, who will charge you up the wazoo to work on it (oh, unless you spend an extra bill on Apple's 'protection plan').
The bad news about buying a PC? They're aren't as aesthetically pleasing, don't come in a box made of recycled hemp designed by Gucci, and ultimately aren't as 'hip'.
But hey, that's my opinion, I could be wrong.