Wally you are right about the price of windows, its only cheaper if you buy it from certain websites online. Retail price is 200-400$ in stores for full version. Macbook pros almost all have i7 processors and they range to around the same prices on a pc laptop as well depending on screen size and what not. Apple has been making a big leap in sales and growing. Both apple and PC have great products but in the end it just comes down to user preference. If everyone had the same things or everyone liked the same things then the world we be kinda dull.