Yes, MacBooks are definitely worth the money. The build quality is great. My MacBook Pro, despite its age, runs the newest OS X Yosemite without much issue. I did upgrade the RAM from 2gb to 8gb back when Mavericks was announced, just in case. Since I was coming from a long history of Windows desktops and laptops, I originally had the HDD partitioned and set up with Boot Camp so I could still boot Windows and run Office Professional... so if you really love Windows, you have options. Me, personally, in the past few years, I've booted up Windows so infrequently, that I forgot I had it. When I was reminded (by a post on this forum) I decided to restore my HDD and delete all my Windows files. I don't miss Windows at all.