2. purchase a MacBook, or MacBook and an iPad. Might as well be accurate since you'll need both to sync. Or, ignore useless advice from iSnobs.
You have die hard, were using them when they couldn't do anything and weren't compatible with anything users, that named all their kids (girls included) Steve.
The other kind is the liberated Microsoft user, who got fed up with Windows and decided to give Mac a try. Seriously, if Bill Gates was going to design an operating system that bogs down when you open multiple programs why didn't he call it Window instead of Windows?
I was a die hard Windows guy until I bought a PC laptop with Vista on it. The more I used it, the slower it got. I got fed up and when my last desktop PC got killed by a virus so I made the leap. I'm not going back.