Macs are twice the price of commodity PCs even though Macs are made from the same cheap components as PCs. Mac notebooks crack and break just as easy as PC notebooks. The OS on PCs suck and destroys itself on tyhe hard drive so you have to have Ghost to make backups and clone the hard drive. You have to know how to change the hard drive in order to keep working or studying. But everyone knows how to do it so just ask. Macs have a far better OS.