Should I get an Apple Laptop?

I'm 15 and thinking about getting an Apple laptop for my A Level and for university and basically because I want one because my other laptop a dell I have had form5 years is too slow and that and I've always wanted an apple because I have an iphone and an ipad so icloud and everything jaut will work out good are they worth there price I want the apple MacBook Air not sure on size but are the worth £880-£1000 and my main question is how long do they actually last how many years before it gets to slow or battery life is so low Thanks

Well, a 5 year old laptop is gonna be a little slow. They get slower and slower as time goes along. Apple's are pretty reliable, VERY user friendly, and are good for school related tasks, especially if you ever want to do anything media related e.i. Video projects and such. Since you have other apple products, icloud will come in very handy.

I've never had an apple laptop before, because they're just always out of my price range, so i just keep real good care of my Toshiba laptop I've had for three years. Has yet to slow down on me, but I baby this thing.

But from what I hear from my friends who have apples, they have a good battery life and don't really slow down too much.

Yes you should get an apple laptop for uni there are many reasons why.
1. You have low chances of catching viruses on your computer which is the main reason why your dell laptop is slow.
when a computer is slow it interferes how efficient you get your work done because you have to spend time maintaining your computer's performance and security which the average consumers have no idea how to do.
2. You don't need to worry about maintaining your computers performance but should still be aware of viruses, there already should be an antivirus that comes with the macbook or you could download it from the mac app store even though there are very low chance of catching it.
3. The User interface is more adaptable compared to windows meaning to don't have to spend alot of time learning how to use a mac if your a first timer on apple computers.
4. Your Mac also comes with iwork apps (if you don't know what it is you can simply google it to find out).
5. Wide variety of apps in the mac app store which is very clean and very easy to discovers apps instead going to web to a random site and download the virus thinking that its a legitimate software.
with the mac appstore you don't have to worry about downloading viruses but when you are on the web you should be worry about viruses even though you have low chance of catching it you should always have an antivirus on your computer.