I BESEECH YOU!

I need help, my laptop is on its last hinge, literally! A few weeks ago my brother was borrowing it and it had a nasty fall, luckily it landed right on one of the hinges and it snapped clean from the rotators. I've been fixing laptops and computers for some years now and I can easily tell there ain't no fix from this. I'd need a new monitor completely due to the way the hinge was broken.

A hinge that has seen better days

Not so bad though because I've had this laptop since 2004 and it was in need of being replaced anyway, seriously who still uses AMD turions. Here is my dilemma now. I want to get a mac book pro, but I've never had a mac before, I am vaguely familiar with the OS when I came across a couple here and there in my old computer repair technician job. Why a mac? first because its different and I want to get to know it, and it should come in handy when I do support for my mac clients. Secondly that damn uni body and almost indestructible hinges has me sold, not to mention the supposed battery life!

I've always been a PC fellow, heck I do all my work under windows... and the only mac that meet my standards, just barely I might add, is very expensive. With the money I'd shell out for that I could get a dell laptop with a quad core and double the memory (8GB) for way less. I do a lot of network work with my laptop so I remotely connect to PCs all the time with the windows built in remote desktop connection or software I've been paying for like RealVNC and LOGMEIN. I wonder if the mac can remotely connect to PCs on a windows network? I have a big network at home too that I provide support via the same method, my home alone has over 7 PCs and this doesn't count the PCs in my dad's office on the first floor which makes about 9 more.

So I beseech you, I need help from someone that has lived on both sides, is the mac worth it? its damn sexy i admit that, and the battery life, gah... what scares me the most tho is whether I'd have to be legitimately buying software from now on too lol. You can get anything cracked for windows...

any input would be appreciated. I have to decide in the next couple days because I am ordering a new laptop no matter what.

Mobile update

My job has me very busy. Here's a look see at my desk ... picture and update are complements of my phone. Ignore the post time, my phone's time zone is set to Magadan Russia... long story!