Ok so recently the LED screen on my '08 Macbook cracked. For my birthday (August 16th) my parents offered to either 1. Fix the LED screen on my Mac or 2. Buy me a new laptop for $500 or less. I know there are some computer heads on this site...so I was wondering if I could get some opinions from you guys. Below is a picture of how bad (or not too bad, however you wanna look at it) my LED screen is. I've been doing SOME research and I've nailed it down to either Dell or HP if I were going to get a PC. Suggestions/Comments would be appreciated

P.S..the picture didn't post. Lol. IDK how to post pictures I guess.