also worth noting that if you do go down the mac route that you get a really good discount for being a student- all you have to do is go on the website- (unfortuantely you can only do this on a university network pc as this is how it verifies your student status- a couple of years ago you could just do it at home but the caught onto that one) and order directly, i think the discount is 25%- but you should check that