I just bought a 15" Macbook Pro (2.2GHz SR / 120GB HD / 2GB RAM). With all the educational discounts I am getting it brought the price to below what I'd be paying to an equally spec'ed Dell or IBM. Plus I do a lot of photography and while I had no problems with editing photo's on Windows, the Mac offers a few more tools and programs that aren't available on Windows. Haven't played around with bootcamp all that much, but installing windows went smoothly enough. So far I'd say I am pretty impressed and with all the incentives apple gives college students to buy a mac its really worth it.