moar negs for me it seems. perhaps dennis the menace shouldnt delete his comments. its a forum ffs. let your roar be heard. too soft for the online world it seems. now, the issue at hand. once a windows laptop goes through a ton of optimisation and disabling of services/graphical enhancements/removal of unnecessary software both will perform the same. from where i stand (i work in IT/hate windows7/use windows xp for producing and run a macbook pro) i find OSX so much more pleasant to use. While both will crash (they're computers, its inevitable) I find OSX to be alot more tolerant and because Macs are uniform in their design, theres no need to worry about incorrect drivers or device incompatibility. My friend is running traktor pro on his xp laptop with CDJ400s. he need asio drivers to use them and after that, ran into all sorts of hassles with drivers and devices. we plugged them into my mac out of interest and after setting traktor up, that was it. no dramas. I plan to avoid windows laptops for good now, because of my experience with a macbook pro, compared to a windows one. While I still use windows xp at home for production, I'll avoid any other version, as its just bloatware full of unnecessary crap and unintuitive operation. Until microsoft puts out something thats as efficient as OSX, i remain a stubborn xp/OSX user. oh, and Have a nice day! only if ur the bomb squad