<p>I’d just like to add that I have never once had a real problem with wireless connectivity with my MacBook at Penn. Sometimes it takes a minute or two to connect to AirPennNet in class, but usually when that happens the students on PCs are slow to connect as well. Wireless on campus seems to be touch and go in general, but I have noticed that PC users on my dorm floor lost their connections far more often than Mac users, myself included, had over the semester.</p>
<p>That being said, go with the OS that you know and like the most, and if you can, spend the extra money to make your machine as powerful as it can be as it would be ideal for the machine to last you all four years at school with the least problems possible.</p>