Yup. Macs are expensive. Yes, they're cumbersome to program with Apple's proprietary coding standards. Yes, they're unpopular and you'll probably never see one outside your school.


"but they're graphics design courses use Macintosh, and he said that every five - ten minutes somebody's cussing at their computers because they fail"

Ever try serious graphics manipulation on a PC? In a lab with other students? I bought earphones just for this.

If your school still runs Mac OS 9.x or lower, you're not experiencing the higher capabilities of the Mac. Mac OS X is worlds better when it comes to stability, but it is not widely used yet.

P.S. Case in point. The PC I was typing this on crashed- right when I was about to post this. I had to retype the entire message. Sure. PCs are great.