welll i spent ages in the apple store yesterday looking at different machines and a macbook screen is just too small, i cant afford a mac book pro. the imac is nice but id prefer the 20 inch model which again i cant afford. the 17 one is nice but after looking at a dell with a wide 22inch moniter and over double the spec of the mac i think im going to go with the pc. If i was just goin to be using p/s all day and not ever using it for games or stuff then a mac makes alot of sense, but a pc can do all that anyway and isnt crippled by mac software. and i get a huge screen to watch dvds