A lot of people say a Mac is generally better, besides the fact that it doesn't get a virus or looks nicer can anyone tell me why it is?

Erm, what do you want it for and what's your budget?

Mac is expensive.

I have an ultraportable 12" tablet PC for the same price as the low end MacBook. It's a antastic peice of kit, and I got it because it did what I wanted it to do, which was write notes in lectures. It fails at CSS.

Apple actually say that you should use an AV product with mac os x

Well their support site did until they took it down for the ads

Well, tbh i don't really know my budget - cos i *might* be going boarding next year and i *might* be getting a laptop so i would say around 300-700quid > just ones that i can use to do work, surf the web, watch movies and play a few games = can you play CS:S on a Mac?

<£700 = no Mac for you, basically. And you can play CSS on a Mac, but it's difficult. Just get a nice PC laptop

DARNN xP

It's difficult not to want a MacBook when looking for a laptop. Most of the time, however, it just isn't practical. 90% of people wanting a laptop or computer in general would be fine with a NetBook.