As a *NIX sysadmin, vet of several Windows rollouts, and former soda-jerk in an Apple shop, I'll only get into this to recommend Mac PowerBooks to non-professionals. They rock. Ruggedly-engineered, aesthetically pleasing, still got the edge in ease of use, and there is a measure of "security by obscurity" by running OSX/FreeBSD instead of Windows, as Lysondra pointed out (although this has changed for the worse lately).
Macs are suitable for audio and video applications - most of the apps from major vendors were developed for them and then ported to Windows - but if you find yourself getting hardcore into that work you should consider a Mac desktop with better I/O and expansion options. And two big-ass monitors!
My 2c worth.


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I'm not going to do it professionally or anything. I want my PC to become secondary and mainly used for word processing and MYOB. Use the laptop/notebook for video editing, mixing+burning music, watching DVDs, internet and so forth.

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