Help me out here! My parents agreed to get me a laptop for my seventeenth birthday. I'm to use this laptop for the rest of junior year, college applications, senior year, and then all of college. So between now and February, I need to research computers.
I grew up on Windows. I have, however, heard absolute horror stories about Vista, so I'm thinking that maybe my new laptop should have a different operating system. Macs are apparently very good, though the last time I used one was in fifth grade, so I'm not familiar with the system at all. I thought about just getting Windows XP anyway, but it'll be obsolete by my junior year of college, so that's no good.
So, for those of you who know about things like this, should I get a Mac? If you have a Mac, are you pleased with it? Is it easy to use? I know...not very much about computers. Also, if you have suggestions regarding specific laptops, I'd love to hear them.
*Edit: Also, we currently have a wireless network at my house. Does having a Mac/certain laptop mean I have to get different equipment or will it work just the same?
Thanks!
-Colleen
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