I forgot to mention I'm gonna be a trend whore on this one and go with a mac for no apparent reason, other than why not? And this is coming from someone who has used windows all his life, and even bought a Zune to stay out of the Apple circus. I'm being a bitch, I know, but hey I want to try out something different, and I'm not one to be faithful to an operating system that is a tool to do what I want. The vaio does look sexy, I'm not gonna lie. especially at 1k less than what I'm currently looking at. my decisions not 100% yet, of course, and I'm still really busy with school work this week, so we'll see where I stand come the weekend.