I don't see the point in buying a mac to put windows OS on it, the only reason I got a mac was for the OS. (Serato is rock solid on it) There is plenty of good hardware out there, the dell XPS 15 (Generation that looked like a macbook pro) can be picked up for under 1k, There absolute beasts and have the best speakers on a laptop I've ever heard. If you want to game, id grab an alienware, seen heaps of people down here do production on hte laptops. My personal recommendation is an asus G series though, there absolute beasts, but are really borderline on the whole "laptop" thing cause there 4kg. (Only 1.3k for one with 1.5tb hd, 3gb dedicated graphics 590m I "Think" with 16gb ram)