<p>other than price, is there any other reason to get a pc over a mac????</p>
<p>One: If you’ve always used a PC and are happy with it.
Two: If your college infrastructure favors PCs.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d get a Mac. It’s a better buy. I’ll elaborate if you want but to answer your question:</p>
<p>Three: If you’re a gamer, PC is the best option.</p>
<p>Four: Configurability.</p>
<p>The only Mac desktop that gives you freedom to do your own upgrades is the Mac Pro, which starts at $2499 before discounts. The Mini can be opened but isn’t meant to be. The iMac is only designed to allow for RAM upgrades.</p>
<p>Mac laptops are about as configurable as non-Apple laptops, though. It’s just the desktops where Apple really limits you.</p>
<p>I’ve almost always used Windows and when I get my graduation party money all I can do is hope I have enough to buy a new or refurbed Mac. My mom uses them for work and I like them a LOT more than Windows. My current laptop is an HP and my internet quits working so often I always end up stressed out just by using it. Plus, I got a really bad virus just within this past year so…
But that’s just my take.</p>
<p>Get a mac if you are not at ALL tech savvy because it will have nice shiny buttons that you can’t miss.</p>
<p>Get a PC if you’re looking for configuration, compatibility, price, and gaming.</p>
<p>and a few headaches along the way</p>
<p>unless you are at all tech savvy.</p>
<p>With a year of college out of the way, if pricing and gaming isn’t an issue, get the Mac. My year started off reasonably enough with my HP, but then the <em>little</em> things began adding up. It’s still good enough that I will probably stick with it for the next four years unless I come across a windfall of cash, but if you really want to save yourself an obnoxious experience, get a Mac. Not one, not two, but three people in my group of friends succumbed to the allure of a reasonably priced bells-and-whistled HP, and it has not been a pretty party for us.</p>
<p>I’m tech savvy, and Windows causes headaches. Switch to Mac and don’t look back.</p>
<p>If the price is the same, it’s pretty difficult to justify picking a PC</p>
<p>What kinds of “obnoxious experiences” and “headaches” are we talking about here?</p>
<p>I ran Windows XP Pro SP2 on my R61 ThinkPad for one-and-a-half years and only had one problem, and that problem was my fault, not Windows’s. I switched to Vista Business in January 2009, and I haven’t had any problems.</p>
<p>If you haven’t owned a Mac, you don’t have much reason to denigrate them. And vice versa.</p>
<p>If you get a mac, you can still run windows.</p>