Al...apple is expensive but worth the money...it's system may not support some items but alot of problems that windows had do not exist and security is great and not suceptable to alot of the programs that hackers write for windows programs..........having said that...the new windows 7 is excellent and personally I'd probably sick to that for what I use a system for when price is concerned....Acer believe it or not is now the leading laptop seller and hp also decent....most components are the same ....just get a good processor