You can buy durable laptops with Windows 7 in Microcenter, BestBuy, Amazon and so on easily. Actually, people prefer shopping online now due to lower prices and taxes.
I have HP dv9000 since 2005. It works perfectly. Depends on the owner and owner's knowledge (and where owners hands are growing from).
That's why Apple has its market. People are too ignorant to explore cheaper options and better possibilities. They buy Macs because Macs look cool and because neighbor has one (what am I, worse than this jerk motherfucker down the road?).
Why did you bold and underline easily? It's not like its hard to buy a mac or anything.