as a freelance graphic artist, I usually work on a windows based desktop machine. recently it came time to upgrade my laptop, and I had been interested in doing some video work, so I took the plunge and picked up a Macbook Pro. Yeah, I had to buy allot of software over again (as well as Final Cut for the video work) but I'm blown away at how much smoother my workflow is on the Mac. Build quality is amazing, and windows apps are very quick running on XP under Boot Camp. I'm counting the days until I can replace my desktop with another Mac.