1200ute is right, Mac's aren't cheap but they sure are convenient in terms of using them with an iPhone etc if you use them. The oply other thing with the Mac's is that you always need different software even for basics like word/excel etc. Finally getting on a Mac after being on a non-Mac will be a bit of a learning curve. After all of that my Mac has been awesome, I dont use it for gaming or anything like that but has been faultless.