If you wanna do web design, desktop publishing, and graphics you would be crazy to not get a MAC. PC's may look great in price but they lack severly in the quality.

MAC graphics are beter when it comes to color synching. The support for graphic software is unmatched on any other hardware, the OS is a dream when it comes to working in the applications you are interested in.

Furthermore, most of the graphics industry use macs. Printshops use macs for color seperation and other techy processes. And most magazine layouts are done on MAC's as well.

Im going to art school now and have seen many windows losers turn around to using macs in the graphic design department.

Lastly. Don't listen to the crap people spew about Mac gaming. There is plenty to go around on the Mac side. Sure there are games that don't come out or that take a while to come out for the mac, but usually they are good ones.

I remember when a friend of mine got a PC to run the latest Maya on it. (runing a UNIX variant dual booted with a stollen Windoze OS), the first thing we said to each other was: "hey lets go get some cool PC games that we never got to play!" So we went to best buy and started browsing the shelves.

Row after row after row of crap that didn't look like it was worth the money. Ton's of DOOM/Quake clones that bring nothing new to the FPS, ton's of boring looking RPG's that bring nothing new to the genra. And lots of crap that you never even hear about.

The only thing we found that we wanted was a copy of Fallout 2 which never (damit!) came out for the mac. Everything else either came out, was coming out, or was crap.

So that's my experiance. Take it or leave it.

But as far as graphics, like I said, you would be crazy not to get a Mac.