Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 13,146
If you are honest with "mainly for the purpose of poker", a mac is a terrible choice.
You will be installing bootcamp + Windows, and you'll end up with a flash looking laptop with terribad power management, missing drivers and not enough mouse buttons. Of course if it's "mainly for the purpose of having a macbook" that's fine.
If you want to run Windows (and for "mainly poker", you do) - for stylish/value/solid, buy sony/dell/lenovo. and take care which model you get.