(in the first place thanks for your comment)
well, here in europe up to 1800 euros, which would be the price for the mac book pro,
the thing is neither autocad or max are supported, since macs are known to be so stable howcome autodesk doesnt launch these softwares for macs... the only reason maya works is because its original alias version already had a mac version, otherwise i suppose maya wouldnt work for macs too...
i ve heard you can now install windows on macs, but it seems a bit of a contradiction...
i ve lost faith in pcs, these days all parts come from different manufacturers, i ve seen state of the art pcs crash due to all these hardware mixes, so can you get a stable pc?
if not i d really change to macs...