@Jiraiyathesannin:
You can build or even buy a PC off amazon/newegg that will out perform what apple has to offer for the same price. Don't listen to that marketing crap apple fan boys believe. "PC's have viruses!!!" No, the internet has viruses, the internet also can give you a free program like malwarebytes that will get rid of any you get. You also only get viruses by doing stupid shit like downloading random unsafe files, going to shady porn sites, shady torrents, shady websites and more things uneducated people go to. Macs are basically idiot proof, they're what you would give to a grandparent so that they can't screw it up. Yeah, they're good for video editting, but you know what is better than apple's video editting software? Adobe's or Sony vegas which can easily match or do better and it's available on both platforms.
Hardware wise you can build a computer for 2k which will be better than say even a $3-4k mac. You could buy a 2k PC that's better than a 2-3k mac. I advise you to build a pc tho, takes 45min (for me 20min) and it'll give you hardware that'll never need to be updated in the next 8 years gaming wise for a $2k price point.
I don't hate macs btw, I hate apple because they build their shit around how to make more money.
PC Vs Mac is like Ubuntu Vs Windows. Windows is very limited in comparison, but compared to an os like linux it's idiot proof while allowing more breathing room than something like ios. While Linux just lets you do whatever the hell you want with it/on it.
I've have a Mac Book Pro for almost 4 years now and I wouldn't trade it for a PC any day. PC's are sluggish compared to my MBP. I've also split water on it twice and it still runs just fine. My friend who got an HP laptop the same year as me has had a ton of problems with it. If you plan on gaming, then you shouldn't but a Mac.
If you need it just for college and the software in Microsoft Office then I would suggest one of these:
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They're really popular right now in schools. They are lightweight and a great alternative to a laptop.
" My friend who got an HP laptop the same year as me has had a ton of problems with it."
Just because he torrents, looks at porn and doesn't have even a freeware virus cleaner doesn't make PC's bad. I'm left to assume that's what he did since if his comp is running sluggish, that's what it takes for a pc.
"PC's are sluggish compared to my MBP"
Please tell me how your mac book pro out performs my PC which has two 7850's in crossfire Oc'd to 1.0ghz on the gpu clock on both, an AMD 6300 OC'ed to 5.0ghz and 16gb of ddr3 with several SSD's which all have a read/write speed of 500mb/s. Seriously, give me your model version and I'll see it's cinebench results and compare it to mine and show you that thinking that all PC's are the same is ignorant.
