i agree that macs are overpriced and understand that you can get an extremely powerful pc for he same price as a mac. but, i think the biggest reason to go for the mac is the operating system. thats the reason i switched, xp is getting a bit old and crappy and vista is just unbelievably bad. when i first thought about switching i was worried that there would be loads of things i could no longer do on the mac but it just isnt true, its probs the opposite. True story::: one of my friends bought a laptop for uni last year around august and it was fine, asus widescreen 1.8ghz, decent spec. came with vista installed, he hated it, went back to xp, remembered that that was pretty bad too. so he tried using linux os's like xubuntu, and he liked them(he formatted almost daily till he was happy with a version of ubuntu) for a while, it ran quick and supported all the hardware fine. but there was the problem that nothing ran on it, if you wanted a program or to use a file type it always felt like a compromise. so the other day he just decided to give up, sell his laptop for half the price he paid for it a few months ago and blow his loan on a macbook. so yeah... you can spend the same amount of cash on a high spec pc, but you're still stuck with windows or something like ubuntu