I was going to say that usually you'll pay a substantial amount of money more for a MacBook. However, I can't say that anymore. I just went to PC Connection, and looked up pricing on laptops with the Intel i7 chip. There are a lot of good deals on PCs, but for the same CPU and same RAM, the pricing is not that much more for a MacBook Pro, and in some cases, the MacBook Pro is substantially less. You can get a MacBook Pro with a 2.66GHz CPU, 4 GB of RAM, 500GB Hard drive, and 15" display for under $2000, after MIR. That's actually not a bad price.

Be ready to learn an entirely new OS if you don't know MacOS, although it shouldn't be that hard to do. For music production, obviously you'll still be able to use Band In A Box, but depending on what you use for your DAW, you may need to switch to another program, due to lack of Mac support. Of course, there are programs that are for Mac that aren't supported on PC, so you should find one that is supported on both platforms.

If you're thinking about it, do your research and make sure you can do everything you want to, now, and in the future.

Good luck, and let us know how it turns out.

Gary

I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!