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Apple or PC?

I am in the market for a notebook computer to use for University. I will be using it for research, writing papers (word/excel), sometimes taking notes in class, music, some photo editing, the odd DVD on trips, and internet surfing. It must be around a 12" and under 5 pounds with good battery life. I have been reading and it's my understanding mac OS X is a more stable operating system and that it is more secure from spy-ware and virusus. They also have 128Bit enscryption I hear as well. The powerbook 12" model looks perfect for my needs but my buddy who is a computer guru says macs are only good for photo editing and I will run into compatibility issues with the mac becasue they dont use a system registry or something like that. What should I do?
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Get the Apple. Your loss in forgoing the PC is that you are going to deny yourself 80% of all independant software unless you get some software that allows you to run Microsoft-based systems on your laptop. This can be annoying for a number of reasons.

If you can get past the above then you will find with the Apple that all software is seamless with the Apple and you won't find yourself stressing over all of the conflicts in a PC that should be really simple but that are always in conflict. Just doing documents in different programs like word perfect and Microsoft word can be annoying.

The Apple notebook gets great reviews. I have been running OS X since the first week that the Apple G5 became available and, yes I did experience some software degradations. The amazing thing was that I was able to re-install the original operating system without spending the evening re-customizing and re-installing everything that I had added over the years. I was also able to upgrade the Panther operating system the same way with no extra work whatsoever.

You will be getting lots of other advice hereabouts as the PC people have many really valid points, too.
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