My only mistake in not switching to a mac was not doing it sooner. Made life much easier i use mine for everything now i've never had to boot up the pc since i bought mine. Vista wound me up so much i gave the laptop away rather than mess around anymore with it. If your buying now there are still some old (by 3weeks) macs to be had i bought my girlfriend the black macbook for 700 last week
After a week of use all she does is moan about the pc she is forced to use at work
. For what you need a mac will suit you down to the ground. If for some obscure reason you need windows you can run that on it too. Try and get into an apple shop and ask for a demo thats what i did the guy was so confident when i was buying my macbookpro he offered me a chance to keep it a week and a full refund if i wasn't happy. I had it since november it has crashed on me once
but took about 1 minute to be up and running again