The fact that Mac's are priced sky high doesn't help either. While I like my macbook (I am typing this post from it) I am getting ready to get a new laptop and it is looking like I will be returning to the PC world. Hard to justify spending almost 3k for a 17" macbook when I can get pretty much the same thing from Dell or HP for about 1K +/- a few pennies. The only major diff is the operating systems. (and I have not heard any major uproars about windows 7 like there was about vista). Plus most of the software works on both (what is not cloud based) so I wont have to re-buy much software.