Just want to thank everyone for the input.  Good to hear both sides of things.  I've used Macs in the past so throwing things in the trash to eject them isn't that scary for me.  ;)  Just a bit odd.

As for price I'm Canadian and one of the first things I did was check the price.  Going Mac or custom build PC is going to cost me about the same price.

So it looks like going Mac might be the way to go for me.  There is also a number of programs that are only on Mac that I'd like to use as I've heard really good things about them.  And worst case for still needing to run Windows only programs I can use Bootcamp or simply keeping using my Alienware laptop.