Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

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So I'm headed off to college, and I'm going to need a laptop. I wanted to buy a high performance/high end laptop and I was wondering if a Mac or a PC is the way to go.

From most of the people I've talked to, I've heard that Macs "are the best" and Macs are "so much better" and that Vista is "horrendous" and can't compare with a Mac. Honestly I think there's a sort of misconception with this since your less expensive laptops will almost inevitably run Vista, and comparing a low end vista with a Mac that has a 9400 nvidia chipset with ddr3 ram isn't really comparable.

I haven't used Vista or Mac enough to be able to get a good feel for which one is better (I'm using XP, which Microsoft is apparently going to stop major support for soon). The price for the hardware is very similar on the laptops (try it yourself).

From what I've gathered, Mac is releasing an OS update, Snow Leopard, around early September and Windows 7 will be released in October (i think? ). I was hoping I could hold out until Windows 7 released, but school starts in September.

So, can anyone give me some good input on which one to buy? I was leaning towards Mac since they're offering a free itouch. If anyone can give me a comparison between Mac's current OSX Leopard and the Windows 7 Release Candidate, that would be great! (Plus, if I REALLY wanted to, I could use Mac's Bootcamp to make a dual boot system as well...)