Justin, you should look into a Desktop PowerMac, they are all dual processor now and with the advent of Virtual PC 6 you may discover that it is much more capable than your previous experiences with it. I work on PCs all the time, but I am personally a mac user, it's nice to sit down to a computer that just works after a day of fighting with a PC to get it to do even the smallest things. I have had my current G4 since june running MacOS X (and only MacOS X, now at version 10.2.3) and have yet to have a system crash...that's what I call stability. I've also been using Macs for more than 10 years and I've never yet had a virus...that's what I call reliability. To top it all off, I don't regularly back up my data, there has never been the first sign that it might be a good idea for me to do so. Finally, go look up what some 1 year old macs sell for on eBay, and find an equivilent PC on ebay...notice the price difference. Macs hold their resale value amazingly well. I buy a new Mac about every year and sell my old one on eBay for enough money to pay most of the cost of the new one. My last trade up cost me about $200.