Sorry to hear of your computer troubles. I had Windows computers for 13 years. I had continual problems. I switched about 6 years ago to a Mac. Counting bride and kids, we have 4 operating with zero problems. No virus yet. No malware. No hardware issues. They just work. Between work and home, I no longer spend countless hours keeping everyone’s windows machines running and clean. I’m thankful.
Somebody bent the aluminium unibody on our first Mac, nobody would fess up to it, but it was enough to scratch discs, since kids don’t seem to use discs anymore, it became their computer. I don’t know what they did to it but Safari won’t work anymore and I can’t get it to install any alternative browsers, it is basically a door stop.
The new Mac had a bad graphics card from day 1. Apple took care of it but because of logistics, we were without it for about 2 weeks. Every now and then it won’t boot and beeps and error code that I think means bad memory and even with the new graphics card it will occasionally explode with a screen full of confetti.
I bought a new Asus laptop last year. I don’t care for Win 8 but It has performed admirably.
The OP is asking an opinion about an $80 upgrade and you gave him a $1500 answer.
I spent about $850 on the Asus, fit and finish, screen, performance and keyboard, it is in my opinion the equal of our $1500 Mac (not considering the Mac’s hardware glitches). Some may quibble back and forth about operating systems but I think that is just personal preference.