I'm about to buy a laptop, mainly for recording and producing music. I was told that I should buy a mac. I haven't decided yet, wether i should buy a pc or a mac, but in either case, I will buy pro tools and use that as my main recording program.

The main reason to why I havent decided, is that if I buy a mac, I will be forced to buy all programs, since I can't find them for free on the net.

Could anyone please suggest some sites were I can find programs like Reason 3.0, Drumkit from hell, Recycle and other such applications? I would be very grateful.

Note: I'm not saying that I won't buy the programs(note that I am going to buy Protools, and that isnt cheap at all), if there are any moralists here. If I use a program alot, and like it very much, then I will buy it. But I don't feel like buying a program like Reason 3.0 without having used it for a while.

All responses are welcome!

None of those applications, as I understand it, are freeware or open source. Perhaps their makers have demos on their websites.