>>5Macs are really good, because they offer standardized and actually good hardware, so you're guaranteed you can run Linux on them. The only problem is high price. But then again, you will lose more time/money trying to install Linux on top of cheaper non-name laptop, finding that Linux just doesn't work there. Until recently, OSX was also much easier to use than Linux. Unfortunately now they disallowed to install software from sources beside apple shop. Attempt to control their Mac developers is the Apple's single problem. They lose both developer and customer trust.