Oh, and daca You've tried macs and dont like them. V wants to try one and a positive to take from that is: Buy the Mac.. If you dont like it, sell it and you'll get enough for it to buy the 1/2price 2X better system you're talking about. So you spend a couple hundred bucks to know that you don't like osx and can quit being curious about it. Not such a bad deal. Or, you'll like it and keep it. Works out good either way