A few months ago my brother was at the Dell cart in the mall and made the bad choice of buying a new notebook. I warned him on the poor quality of Dells lately and how I and many people I know are having problems with Dell computers. I told him he should have bought a new Mac book pro instead. (now that they can run Windows XP via a direct boot or through an emulator)
Within a couple of weeks he was having all kinds of problems with the Dell. We would stop by the Apple store every couple of weeks and I kept rubbing it in that he should have purchased a new Mac book pro.
Last week he purchased the 17 inch Mac book pro. Within a couple of hours he was calling me to tell me how he was blown away by the features that came with his new computer and wish he had made the switch earlier.
He also purchased 
Parallels, a Windows Emulator for intel computers running OSX. Within a couple of hours he had Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 running. When I came over to see how it ran, I was really impressed! However things were a bit sluggish on the OSX side. The problem was he allocated 600 megs to the emulator and only 300 megs to OSX. I told him to get more memory and things should improve.
He called me today and said he put in an additional gig and he said everything is running the way it should. He allocated a gig to OSX and a gig to Parallels.
I know my next notebook will be a Mac. I still have to pay off this !#$%@ Dell that I hate because I still have a few months left in my lease. I count the days….