I have a lot of experience with both. Currently I use windows exclusively at work (although through the years I've used other operating systems as well), and at home I have both a pc and a mac.
If you don't like the mac operating system, then you should probably get a pc. Productivity is a big-deal, so there really isn't much point in using something that you aren't productive on, or dislike for other reasons. Don't forget though that if what you are used to is windows 7, windows 8 is a lot different than 7 (and most pc people hate it), so you're going to have to re-learn either way, unless you buy one with windows 7, which will greatly limit your options, and then you have to worry about obsolescence in the coming years.
Objectively, the mac is a much better machine imo.
Mac Pros: - much better built in terms of hardware (any kind of objective measuring generally shows macs require far fewer repairs than pcs in general) - mac os is much much more reliable than windows (less crashes, hangs, mac doesn't have to be rebooted constantly from memory leaks etc). - mac does come with some neat software, like iphoto, imovie, and garageband, and time machine takes all the pain out of backing up your machine (especially when coupled with a time capsule). - when it comes time to upgrade to a better mac, you wouldn't believe how simple it is to transfer all your apps, data, media etc from your old to your new mac. Windows is horrible by comparison. - thanks to "bootcamp" and "parallels", if you choose a mac, it can also run as a pc, and run pretty much all your pc software on it. - mac support is much much better than hp or dell (and hp and dell are generally better than the other pc hardware vendors). Apple's phone support is really good, as are the apple stores that are popping up everywhere. With hp or dell, your phone calls go directly to India. - the new macbooks have some pretty neat new technologies, like thunderbolt, usb3, and solid state drives.
PC Pros: - often considerably cheaper price / performance. - most pc laptops have some useful things that many of the mac laptops don't (like dvd drives, ethernet ports, and various other monitor ports like hdmi)
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