Macs are probably fine for retirees or those who don't travel for business with a laptop. I have a second hard drive in my work computer that I use as my personal computer. I boot from the second internal hard drive when traveling to access my own computer. This way I don't need to carry my business computer and a Mac. That second hard drive was also a whole lot cheaper than a Mac. My employer bought me a hard drive caddy to replace the optical drive. I used one of my 3 Windows 7 licenses for the OS installation. With 1 laptop I have 2 computers.