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Inanimate Object:
You haven't looked hard enough then. There aren't a lot, but there are a few good ones. I still play Age of Empires II, WarCraft III, Jedi Knight II, and various freeware games. Also, the reason all the games I listed were old was because of lack of processing power, not lack of new games. Stupid old iBook...

Duchess Tapioca:
You should get pc with an AMD Turion 64 processor, because it makes things better for cheaper. There are three real reasons to get a mac:

1. You have lots of extra cash laying around. You want to show your friends that every time you puke, up comes silver dollars.
2. You hate right clicking.
3. You cannot live without a rotating desktop background.

Also, if you are use to having a pc and using ctrl+c and ctrl+v and ctrl+whatevertheeff, you will get very mad. This may lead to defenistration of your sleek and stylish, unsuprisingly aerodynamic computer.

If you would like a mac for any valid reason, including the ones listed above, please get a mac, because it really doesn't matter that much.

salada:
the right clicking thing is sort of a moot point. any mac user worth their salt would have gone out and bought a 2-button mouse. extra expense i know, but you could pick up some 2-button-scoll-wheel affair for pretty cheap.

also the machines are a little more expensive, true, but they tend to last longer between upgrades. the upgrades thing, however, is an issue. unless you get a G5 tower, upgrading components one at a time (short of basic things like RAM) is difficult, or sometimes impossible.

converting word documents shouldn't be an issue. for your area, most of everything should be cross-platform compatible.

something else to consider though, is the motorola-to-intel switch that apple recently announced. this means that sometime in 2006 apple will release a range of machines built around intel chips. from what i can see, this shouldn't discourage you from buying a mac now (as opposed to holding out for the intel machines). software titles will still be developed and supported for older PPC-based macs over the next few years, whereas the intel machines will have a sort of "1.0 phase" if you know what i mean.

but then i'm biased from having used macs forever (and now i'm studying graphic design, so they're the dominant platform), so yeah.

Valrus:
If games don't matter, what you should do is find a way to give OS X a spin, because the OS is really what makes Macs worth the extra money you'll usually have to pay. If you like OS X, get a Mac. If it just doesn't impress you all that much, stick with a PC.

This is coming from a Mac evangelist who is exercising a monumental amount of willpower to let Duchess Tapioca's "real reasons to get a Mac" jab go unanswered.

Inanimate Object:
The real real reasons to get a Mac:

Better security. OS X is close to impossible to break into. I have had Macs for almost 10 years now, and never had a virus.

No crashing. A program might go down, but it almost never takes the system with it. Overall, Mac OS X is a lot more stable then Win XP.

The iLife suite. With a new Mac you get: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iCal, Garageband, Pages, and Keynote (among other programs, this is just iLife). All of these are great apps and can do most of the things you'll need for school. iTunes plays music. iPhoto stores and organizes all your digital photos. iMovie is basically a better version of Windows Movie Maker. iCal is a great app for keeping track of appointments and such. Garageband is for designing musical tracks, this can include live recording from an instrument or microphone, or just playing around with prerecorded loops. Pages is the new text editor and layout program. It will do everything you need in the way of typing papers and similar things. Keynote is what it sounds like, a speech and presentation editor. I've never used it so I can't say much about it.

Anyway, there are three very good reasons to go Mac.

Although, as Salada said, there are new Macs coming out next year. June 2006 isn't that far away. I know the older ones will still be supported, but for how long?

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