Have to agree with stevemac about $per performance on the PC vs Mac.

if your looking at a Mac there is more to it than just pure performance , my full time work is has a system administrator, have been for the last 20 years, Switched to a Mac at home last October , just a low end Mac mini, dual core i5 and am totally happy with it, for me OSX + hardware design out weighs the preformance hit and with real world apps, it's not that much of a performance

My work pc is a high end HP laptop it cost 3500.00. Quad core i7 8BG ram

using DxO to process my RAW images from Sony 14MP DSLR , the HP will process a image in 18sec. The Mac mini. Running DxO does it in 20sec. Considering my mini only cost 800.00 I'm happy with the 2sec preformance hit.


at work we also have a $1400.00 mac book pro , the build quality of the MacBook is miles ahead of the HP and any other PC laptop I've seen and has a tech with OSX I get to have a unix os with the best GUI I've used since the Amiga 500 :).( I liked OS2 warp has well. ). I'm not calling the Mac/OSX the best home computer around but it,s a nice change to windows :).

P.s Sophos offer a free antivirus for OSX :)