I grew up using both because we had mac laptops for school and a pc at home. I personally like the mac look better and in general (I did have some problems with the older models) the MacBook is much better and more reliable than any PC we have (Both mum and dad are seriously considering switching to Macs for their next computers). The only real difference that most people notice is everything is opposite to pcs (buttons are on the left on macs and right on pcs) and there is no right click button so its just control+click instead. Also in my expierece the main programs you use are word (and office), itunes and internet and all those can be used on mac, and if that still doesn't feel right you can always run vista on them. Also in the end mac's are so much more fun because they have all this cool stuff on them (imovie, photobooth, garage band etc) that pc's don't have and its fun to much around with when you're bored.