I've owned more than 10 laptops in my life and I can say build quality wise my macbook is among the highest. Actually the one that had the HD crap out on me was an alienware, goes to show that even pricey name brands PCs are vulnerable to bottom of the barrel low bid vendors getting their oem products in there. I think my macbook runs windows faster than most of my pcs do. I only use it for AP map manager and some small music software that isn't available on mac but dual booting doesn't bother me much. It might not come with bootcamp installed but its not like they charge you to download it either.