In all honesty, both are viable options if you have money to burn. I firmly believe that people are buying in to an image when they purchase an Apple product, and I don't blame them either. It has a sleek design, the materials its made of scream "elite". Their hardware isn't anything impressive, generally it can be beat by a system which costs $500 less -- and that's where I'm kind of going - build yourself a PC and install MacOS on it!