1: I can't go to the Apple Store (MAC stores sell fashionwear and I'm not into that stuff) because the closest one is eight hours away. So sue me.
2: I do agree that Mac laptops are overpriced. I never said Macs were perfect.
3: Why does your "friend" even play WoW on a PC? It works on Macs as well, and you wouldn't have ranted about your friend in the first place, as they would be running it in their common environment.
If you think Macs made them more retarded, that's false. It enlightened them to a world where you don't have retarded reboots at each click of a button. (Oh, and the kernel panic screen is much more pleasing than the BSOD, hell, it even has transitions.)
4: Apple built upon FreeBSD and Mach, to make Darwin, the opensource core for the Mac. As >>6-san said, Apple chose a decent foundation. Microsoft did not, so switch if you're fed up with it. Move to Linux if you hate Mac. :/
5: >>6, if you ran a custom install for iTunes 5, you could remove the ROKR driver, which is the cause for the reboot after Software Update. (You can custom install most updates by downloading them via Apple's site.)
6: I AGREE WITH >>5