I would go the PC route myself mostly because of money and the fact I like to use Sonar but I would call first and make sure the laptop can run XP. I did some research on a Vista dual boot for a friend and it seems that quite a few newer Dell and HP laptops have problems running XP. A lot of the newer hardware doesn't have XP drivers. I'm going to try doing one next week so I'll let you know how that goes.
The other half of me does think Mac. I would think that if MS doesn't fix this thing they call Vista there will be no hardware that will work properly for it. After that it would follow that there would be little software as well. Since eventually XP will not be supported this would effectively kill the PC as a recording platform if they let it go that route.
The sad thing is the DRM that is causing most of these problems has already been hacked and now does absolutely nothing to prevent copying. I think it took about 3 days for it to happen. Now all that is left is a big inconvenience to users. The industry has been trending slightly away from DRM recently so maybe that will make this go away.
Right now seems to be a crappy time to be getting into PC recording it seems between the UB stuff on the Mac and all the problems with Vista.
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