To Mac or not to Mac

Of late I have found myself staring at the 'resuming windows' bar across my laptop whilst my coffee goes cold and wondering if there is more to life than waiting for windows to kick in. This subject has now been elevated in my conscious due to sporadic power failures as my laptop just turns off when forced to deal with Photoshop and Dreamweaver etc.

True I have a lot of music stuffed in my small hard drive and I do use it almost 24/7 - but then again it is a tool, something I use everyday. So my question is, should you have to endure such outages in your work life, or is there another way.

According to Apple there is. MacBook Pro. Made from spaceships, their laptops can survive extreme temperatures and were made for the memory hungery, 'arty' applications that I favour. But at a price! - Their basic laptop weights in at over a grand, that's twice what this one cost. Makes you think, long and hard.

OK, so you can do more on a shinny new Apple, it has wireless, bluetooth and even a camera built in as standard. It comes with 2gb memory and has the almighty (reason for buying) Intel Core 2 Duo There is even bootcamp, a place to keep windows (on the mac) should you need to test a website cross platform.....

All very tempting yes, but who on earth spends over a thousand pounds on a laptop??

By rights I should own one. I am a designer, I drive a scooter to work and have a tendency to wear surfing T-Shirts under a suit Jacket. But I am also a project manager, keeping my projects on time AND in budget. And then there is the fact that I am a responsible parent with a wife who gives me that look when ever she sees me looking at the porn that is the Apple web site.

Zach, my partner in crime recons that his productivity increased by 25% when he switched. For me that can be the only reason for such an expenditure as time is much harder to put a price on.

I genuinely have no idea...

Answers on a postcard please.