Roll of the dice

Or in my case hard disk crash at my laptop (PC). This has been my 4th laptop since 2000. Previous "losses" included:

1. problematic / flickering screen
2. broken power supply slot on the motherboard
3. cheap replacement laptop (outgrew it, gave to an ex)

So I took the decision to cross onto the other side. After all macs:

1. are damn good (hardware wise)
2. can carry windows if I feel/need to
3. are necessary for iphone/ipad dev

Price wise I did feel the sting. No way I could justify a 17". A 15" would still be a stretch so I went for a 13". In comparison I could have gotten a 15.6" for perhaps half the price of the 15" mac.

Having said that the PC would not not be i5 not come with 4GB of memory. Anyway it will take some getting used to these higher prices in apple land.