ok, i'm not too happy about being brought into this whole argument and i'm certainly not happy about you posting quotes from PRIVATE emails. You have also taken things i said out of context.
I don't like Macs, never have. Why? Because i refuse to pay such an overblown price for something just because it has the Apple logo. A Mac Pro with a 2.4ghz xeon processor, 6gb ram and a 1tb drive is like £3000. Seriously? I can build/buy a PC with better hardware, faster and more storage for half that price. For the price you pay for a decent PC you can't get a Mac that performs anywhere near that, so PC have surpassed Macs for that one reason. A lot of the software i use won't run on a mac and i wouldn't be able to do a fraction of the stuff i do on a PC on a Mac without having to pay a small fortune for the software.
Also when you mentioned the monitors i was only correcting you when you thought the ones at your school were 1440p, when their resolution was more likely to be 1440 x 900 if they are widescreen monitors and that would be their highest native resolution compared to my 1080p PC monitor. I was leaving Mac pro's out of our conversation because of their price range when i was talking about upgrading. I don't count a Mac pro as being a viable option for me to ever use.
I also don't like what Apple have become. I'm fed up of people telling me that i only don't like apple because i either can't afford it or that i am too stupid to know any better. It's become a snobbery thing. It really bugs me when a new product comes out and the Apple fans & reviewers just call them things like "the poor mans ipad" or "the poor mans iphone". Then the whole iphone issue when you would loose your signal was put down to the official explaination that"you are holding it wrong" really made me laugh. And people believed this. Mugs. A lot of people only buy apple products for their status value in todays society. Now notice i said " a lot" and not "all" so i'm not slagging off genuine Apple users.
Windows based PC's and Apples both have their pros and cons. It's not up to anyone to say "you have to have this one". It's a personal and also a professional choice