<p>I've used both PCs and Macs. I have a PC at home and my school is exclusively Mac. Now these arent the crappy G3's. Almost all of my school's Macs are the newer iMac G4's. But you know what. Macs are slightly better (no wierd error messages, they are more stable than PC's) but it really isnt worth it. If you're already familiar with OS X, then go head. But if you aren't, its not worth learning how to use a new OS.</p>
<p>personally i want to enjoy college and not play video games while i can be studying, partying, or hanging out with all the cool people around me. so who cares wat runs machine video games better?</p>
<p>I will be buying the middle MacBook very soon and am excited.</p>
<p>while at orientation recently the guy in the tech shop told all of us that most students buy apple's. He likes it when they buy apples cause the pc's always come back for repair (the tech shop has free on campus repair) and it gives him more work, while the Apple's he never see's again.</p>
<p>"Learning a new OS?"</p>
<p>OS X doesn't have much of a learning curve. A major feature of the Mac OS is its ease of use. My grandmother uses OS X.</p>
<p>Tooya- I respect your post, and im not trying to bash you at all. To the starter, this case is most likey true, but its the first one I have ever seen on CC and there have been 3,860,745,147 threads on computers. Sorry about your friends experience Tooya.</p>
<p>The pop up thing is of course, optional, and can be turned off at any time.</p>
<p>And my friend got Oblivion running on his MBP after a day. Your friend needs to do a bit more debugging and research (after spending $2k, biggest drawback of the MBP by far). </p>
<p>The thing is, the MacBook Pro just sucks, power/performance wise compared to other brands like Dell and Asus. </p>
<p>Of course, there are many side benefits to the MBP, especially video and photo wise, but you must weigh that against the sheer expense of it. (MacBooks simply aren't as nice, though definitely worth checking out).</p>