I just bought a Dell XPS M1530 fully loaded (4gb ram, bluetooth, 9 cell battery, dvd burner, hd screen, 256mb graphics card, etc...) for 1600 with a three year warranty. This is the third dell computer I have had and if you have a warranty anything that ever goes wrong is fixed immediately without question (at least this has been the case for me). To get mac that even compares to this performance wise will cost you well over $2000, not to mention the compatibilty issues that can arise with a mac (yes I know you can install windows on a separate partition of your hard drive, but that is a little bit complicated for the average computer user). Just my two cents