Hi all, it's been a while since I last posted! I've always been a PC user, on various operating systems. The time has come for me to replace my laptop and I've decided that this is the perfect opportunity to get myself a Mac. Useage for my laptop will be 95% web browser - literally, it'll just be there to sit around my living room or bedroom and provide wireless access to the web. Saying that, who knows what I might want in future. I am however interested in getting XP on it (no need for Vista), using either Bootcamp or Parallels. I might even want to install Visual Studio on my XP installation. I'm not interested in the Air, as nice as it would be. My budget is sub-£1000. I like the look of the regular MacBook, but having next to no knowledge of Mac performance I don't know if it's going to be good (fast) enough to meet my requirements. Does the entry-level MacBook have the hardware to run the OS with all the shiny stuff turned on and still be snappy and responsive? Are there any Mac-only applications that I might come across that are resource hungry? What are Bootcamp and Parallels like for resource useage? Obviously Parallels will be worse, but can I just assume that if I boot into XP it will perform as XP would perform on a PC with those specs? Are they even viable on the entry-level model? Do any of the Mac fans out there have any advice for purchasing? Is it best to buy direct from Apple? What are they like for customer service? Any other comments (or questions) welcomed - open to all advice, just decided it's time for me to get into all this computer stuff for hippies ;-) Thanks in advance, James