Mac Users: Are macbooks as good as pc laptops?

I'm an IT student in my senior year but have worked with computers since the 80's. I generally use a Windows based PC. In recent years I have used Linux on a PC quite extensively as well. I bought a MacBook Pro (used but in very good shape) recently, hoping to have this great experience with a Mac that I have had to endure listening to from my Mac friends for years. They always would bag on my PC saying Microsoft is evil and whatnot. Bottom line is I am unimpressed with the mac. I upgraded to Lion and the topuchpad suddenly became so sensitive that it was almost unusable. I couldn't find any settings to correct it either (finally found an app that someone put together to change some settings). I get application hangs on a daily basis. With a Core 2 Duo and 4 Gigs of Ram (newer ones have better specs) I don't have enough power to comfortably run a virtual machine though my pc with similar specs handles one just fine. Oh and I wanted to get a mouse for it but they're over $70. So I am real unimpresssed but I have to learn to work on them because they are too popular to ignore now. What I do like is the command line is similar to Linux and I can get around very well on it.

Definitely not. Macs are overprice and not as useful as as a PC. Macs attract people by its designs. If you are going to use it for receiving email surfing the internet or precessing documents, I recommend mac.You can use a PC for almost anything.