I work at Best Buy, and chromebooks are the highest selling laptops that we carry. They can do everything a mac can within Chrome and are a fraction of the price. Besides, this guy has a limited budget, so it'd be better to spend less on his laptop and more on his gaming rig. It's what I did. I mean, if you have the money to blow, macs are unbeatable. But this is a highschool student on a budget, so I say go for the 300$ laptop instead of the 1300$ one.