Apple laptops come in two flavours...macbook and macbook pro. In your price range the only option is the macbook (the macbook pro starts at $2200). So the highest end macbook (2.16 ghz) comes with 1 gb ram and a 160 gb hardrive for $1650, but is upgradable to 2 gb ram, and a 200 gb hardrive. I think these two upgrades are between $300 and $400 in total, putting you up around the $2000 range.. I am looking to buy one of these soon too so I happen to know all the pricing pretty well. Now seeing as you want to run video editing applications, I am not sure if 2 gb of ram are enough, if that's the case you would have to go up to the macbook pro which comes with 2 gb, but is upgradeable to 4 gb (for a pretty hefty price tag...like almost $1000). If you have any other questions let me know...I likely won't be back online until tomorrow though...when I'm at work and have time to fuck around!