You can 100% get a better windows laptop and with 16 ram a GTX card and a fast as hell processor and still be under 1500 also the laptop might be able to run a VM of Mac there for both systems on one computer. But if your looking for heavy video use and since your videos are 5-10 minutes long a Mac WILL work but for long term get a windows with a better video editing software. My friend uses Sony Vegas and I use Adobe premeire pro. Hope this helps.