[Willie Green]

I can buy three decent PC laptops for that.

Install Linux... you'll save money and your laptops will perform better.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Actually, Win 7 performs better than my SUSE and Ubuntu installs. And that's with Superfetch, indexing and ReadyBoost disabled.

Still, Macs and Xnux handle the TCP/IP stack better. I don't know what the hell's wrong with MS that they have so much overhead with TCP/IP.