I am a long time Mac user, but use windows at work and had a windows machine for gaming for a while. Unless you are gaming or need to use a windows specific app, it is hard to beat the MacPro laptops. On feature for price, they are roughly equivalent to a higher end windows machine, and the lack of viruses and spyware by itself is enough to warrant a change. The screens are beautiful. For video editing, I would go for a machine with a discrete video card as opposed to the integrated cards. Also for video editing, I would max out the RAM at the time of purchase.