Go ahead, call me a fanboy and stop reading now if the headline irks you.

Fact is, my current aluminum 13” MacBook is the first and only laptop I’ve owned which, after 20 months of owning it, still works just as great as it did the first day.

Really, I may just be jinxing myself, but I bought this laptop in February of ‘09 and it still is in top shape, everything works and I can run all the latest apps and OS without any hitches.

I can’t say that about the Sony VAIO I bought in summer of 2005 for $1,799 plus extended warranty from Circuit City. It was a beauty of a machine, top of the line but still light, a laptop which I hoped would help me get through my last year of engineering school.

Come October, the 3.5mm audio out stopped working. January, keys started falling out of the keyboard. By graduation day the next summer, the battery was completely dead. My first day of work? Screen backlight fizzed out.

This $1,199 machine, “expensive” if you asked someone who’s only dealt with those nasty PC laptops, is still doing great 20 months down the line.

Nope, can’t say that about the five PC laptops currently sitting, dead, on my bookshelf, waiting for a spare weekend to get fixed. Shiny, new laptops which, omigod, were less than half as “expensive” as my Mac. Sure looks less like a deal when you have to buy three or more of these laptops during the lifetime of a single Mac notebook.

I mean - really - who needs a PC any more? Ah, yes, Exchange and all that corporate software. Well, luckily for you, that’s your employer’s responsibility and shame on you if you have to buy a PC yourself and not have it supplied by your employer. For anything else, a Mac notebook will work much better and with less headaches.

It just effin’ works.

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- I’ve been a Windows user since the 3.1 days. Learned to code on them, gamed on them, got through college on them. Think about that before you dismiss this as just another fanboy rant.

- Gaming? Pshaw, that’s what my custom built PC tower is for, not the laptop. Even then, it’s been months since I’ve sat down to play PC games, I’ve got a business to tend to.