<p>macbooks are fine and if you consider 700-1200 overpriced then you haven’t looked at very many top of the line laptop pc’s recently.</p>
<p>osx runs on unix and you can pop open a shell and run just about any linux command. Tell me that’s not good for business if you’re in I.T.? Windows has to emulate the shell, bleg! </p>
<p>And with a few gigs of ram you can just dual boot windows or even run it inside a virtual machine in boot camp. Not to mention there are ways of running osx on a non-mac laptop nowadays if you are technically inclined. </p>
<p>You’re familiar with pc? Then I say get the mac and learn it. Being good at both worlds will help you in a pinch. No one in my web classes know anything about pc’s and no one in my business classes know anything about mac’s.</p>