I really like our Gateway, it is my second one and I love it...but I will be getting a Macbook Pro. The only problem I have is that it has the feeling of an HP...meaning you have to buy Mac things for the Macs. They are getting better about it, but you can put almost any programs on this one. For school I got rid of my Mac and got Gateway because I couldn't put any of my nursing CDs on the Mac. But they have already made a program that runs the windows based programs. My dad has the Mac Pro and that is what he uses to put all his music stuff on it. He hated it at first, in fact I was going to buy it from him...but now he likes it.
(He was frustrated because you have to purchase all kinds of things for the Mac to get it to do what his windows based computer just did. But know that he has done all that it is good.
(Just more expensive in the long run)