VBA on the mac stinks, and is no longer offered in office 2008 - a huge issue for people who visit this forum! If you want to buy a mac to run windows, you can certainly do that, but you pay a premium for the hardware. They are nice systems, and my next laptop will likely be a mac (because I do develop for both mac and pc), but if you dont develop anything for the mac platform, you can get a PC much cheaper for the same specs.