My current laptop is a sony vaio. I mean I know its not strong enough to handle the adobe programs, I can barely run flash cs4 and photoshop cs4 at the same time. My specs on my current sony vaio which I got like 2 and a half years ago is 0.99 gigs of ram/1.60 ghz/ginuwine intel (r) cpu. I know its nothing compared to today and with more work from clients I need something that can handle running at least 5 of the adobe programs at the same time with the internet browser opened and maybe a mp3 player like jet audio playing some tunes to get some serious work done occasional video editing but nothing too crazy.
1. Flash cs4
2. Photoshop cs4
3. Illustrator cs4
4. Dreamweaver cs4
5. Fireworks cs4

These 5 are what I mostly use. I realize crashes can happen sometime. How does a macbook pro pair up with a souped up pc laptop running maybe an i7 lets just say with 4 gbs of ram at 2.53 ghz.

I need some proof something that lets me know macs are reliable, and what about color settings like mbp calibration for files for print I understand apple has its own color engine so I was wondering abot that as well.

One last thing my price range is 1000-2000. Honestly I don't need the fastest laptop in the world but man it need to handle opening those 20 hi res pics same time, allow me to preview movie in flash I am making thats big in filesize, and not skip a beat.

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions and taking the time to read.