<p>I recently bought a MacBook Pro 15" because I felt OS X Leopard was an overall better operating system than Vista with fewer compatibility issues. I was reluctant to make this purchase because of all the idiots I see buying Macs right now for the wrong reasons and also because of my personal hatred of marketing/advertising in general, but using the computer so far has been great. It is an amazing machine capable of doing whatever you need it to do, as it is able to boot Windows or Ubuntu Linux in addition to Leopard. I paid $2200 total, including tax and the 3-year protection plan, and I’ve heard that the support for Apple computers is truly outstanding, in case of a hardware malfunction or other similarly annoying problem. I think Apples are great to have for college, since Leopard has an awesome built-in calendar (iCal) and recording software (GarageBand) while also booting up in about 20 seconds. Overall, I think it was a great purchase and would highly recommend it.</p>