I understand what you guys are saying, I used a mac in class and am familiar with them--the issue is that there are already compatibility issues with the graphic person and the network at my work. Sometimes we have to e-mail back and forth to get a file that will open. If I'm e-mailing homework or a work file to myself, it can NEVER have a compatibility issue with PC Windows Office and that's just not the case on our network right now. I simply can't e-mail back and forth with myself on a class day. Therefore, while I'm in school and until I have these new departments running smoothly at work, it MUST be a PC notebook so that work I do at home can absolutely reliably make it to the office.