Yes, I'll be getting questions like write a program which prints table from 11 to 20 upto multiple of 10 and write a program which tells the difference between two integers and some more questions like these. I already know PHP and JavaScript, so I've a good idea of how programs work, but C++ is fully object oriented and they're totally different from PHP's OOP except the curly braces.
Check out Urban Dictionary. They add new words daily plus they have word of the day and lot more, but the words are just too kind of, UHMMM... Well, they don't make much sense. To me they just don't seem so genuine and usable in daily conversations, anyway check it out yourself. - http://urbandictionary.com
Mac for decent performance, beautiful apps and development environments to work in and amazing built quality. Apple always does good in hardware, but for that price, you can get a lot better.
ThinkPad, really good performance, good graphics and battery life.
And if performance is only what you care about (not $) then why don't you take a look at Razor laptops. I know, I know, that's a gaming laptop company, but there laptops are made out of the best and definitely the best laptop I have ever used. Plus they have a snake symbol on the back which is company's logo and which I love as I'm a Python programmer.