I need a new laptop for school!

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MAC. Hands down. No contest.

Unless you want more issues, more viruses, more problems all around. Then, by all means, go with a PC.

Watch out! DH is hating apple b/c they don't like to make things backwards compatible. He as a 4 year old Mac that he can't even connect his iphone to, he has to use our 7 year old Dell desktop to sync his music. He also has another 8 year old Mac that he still uses from time to time because it has software that he can't port to his newer mac because of compatibility issues. It's ridiculous. This is actually the main reason he's switching to PC.

Have a PC. No issues here. Never had a virus either. Worked right out of the box and still no issues 2 years later. And I got to load all my old software on it. IMHO the issues/virus thing is a myth propagated by Apple.

That said, asking "mac or pc?" is like asking "Campy or Shimano?" It's one of those red-button, holy war type questions where everyone has a strong opinion and thinks the other side is nuts.