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No problem, Ryvyan. I have to say that MSF got their stuff together with Windows 7, it's night and day better than XP or Vista. I've had my laptop running hard for 1.5 years, and it's just as fast as the day it was born. It runs cad (Autocad/Autodesk Revit - 3d architectural software), video processing, Photoshop, etc. like a champ. Here's what I got for $550: 17" LED screen, 320gb 5400rpm hard drive, 4gb memory, AMD dual core/ATI video card (hardware accelerated), eSata, Win7 64 Home Premium. Yea, it doesn't have an aluminum body, but really I could care less, my carbon fiber plastic looks pretty cool too. Upgraded to 7200rpm hard drive and 8gb memory for $200 last week, and this thing flies now. At the time, a 17" Macbook Pro was like $2500 or so, and it wasn't THAT much better than what I ended up with. And yes, most cheap Win7 laptops (with Intel integraded graphics) are performance dogs, I lucked into this one.
Also, to be fair, you should be looking at the software you need to run, at the time I wanted to try Apple OS and hardware, but also had to run my needed applications. In that specific case (needing Win7 and CAD also), the Apple Tax (both in cost and time) was a little bit too much. For many people, this won't apply.
Just giving my thoughts, I think many users make blanket comments (from both camps, from what I've seen) that are not really accurate.
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