Congratulations, JJ! I picked up my MBP Christmas present recently as well.
Doesn't sound like you're taking crap from anyone on your selection. Good. These religious debates have been around since day one. If the point is to get something done, well, choosing a comfortable system is a big part of making that happen. The prices for similarly equipped systems are so close that the most important factor becomes usability, and that's up to each user. Use what works.
I'm enjoying mine!
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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