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I think the original poster is gone, but just in case, I have another thought to add to the discussion.
You said you were going to college - you should take into account that you're going to make new friends there and they're all going to run Windows. You're going to want to run the same software, play the same games on the LAN, and be able to loan your computer to people (read: girls) who want to write their papers at the last minute and stay up all night in your room.
Depending on what you're studying, too, there might be specialized software that you'll need to be able to run. I had a friend in college who majored in CS and was a Mac fanatic. I felt really sorry for him (although that was mostly before OSX, which probably levelled the playing field a bit). If you get the wrong machine for your subject, you're going to have to spend all your time in the lab anyway. This goes both ways, though - if you're majoring in film or art, most of your fellow students will probably have Macs, too, and some software might even require that.
Honestly, I think you're better off getting a cheap Windows box, and saving the money. Unless you play games now, don't even bother getting a good Windows box -save the money and buy upgrades when you know what you want to do with your machine. Maybe you'll be a gamer and could use a great graphics card, or maybe you'll decide to archive every piece of porn you ever encounter and you'll need some big HDDs. But people change their computer usage habits a lot in college, is one thing I learned :-)
Bingle
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