I agree, you don't need to spend £700 for what you need, as others have said, sony is very reliable, around £500 for what you need. Not really sure if you can get windows laptops with office (full versions) already installed, doesn't take much installing good luck.

Man who works in the games industry and recommends gaming pc's shocker!

I'm a designer and use Macs all day. I love doing so. I can admit that Macs, whilst pretty, reliable and very good at what they do... are far too expensive compared to competitiors for your average consumer.

What else would you expect?!

There is a reason why the design, publishing and media industrys have chosen mac over PC so they must work.

I will hold my hands up and say that I have never used one but unless you are video editing, desigining or doing other design stuff I think a PC is more than adequate of 90% of users who browse the net and use office a little bit. No need to pay the inflated prices.

I would love to own a mac as I dabble with a bit of design and video editing but the cost is prohibitive.

And I had you down as a techie. There's no reason a mac is better for any of those things; certainly not now. The software required is cross platform and the hardware is identical (well the architecture is, so you can use equivalent hardware).

Of course those industries are all style over substance, which is exactly what as Mac is.

Exactly..designers use them because by there nature they are better 'designed' aesthetically, PC's tend to be more work-man-like in appearance as they are simply machines to perform the tasks given to them. There is SO much nonsense about Mac's and what they allegedly can do..Photoshop is Photoshop whether you use it with an expensive Mac bauble or a PC. I should know, I have been using the program since it's inception!