PC vs. Mac for Biomedical Graduate School

[midwestern_blot]

I'm applying to translational biomedical graduate programs and am looking to replace my old laptop. I'm more familiar with Macs but know that there are some statistical packages, molecular modeling programs, etc. that run better on a PC or Mac. And PC's tend to be cheaper - is it worth switching to a PC or should I stay with what I know?

[blc073]

I have a PC, and it has been great so far. It is an Acer i7 Quad Processor with a dedicated graphics card and 8GB of RAM. It was about $700 on Amazon. 

I run R, Python, and MATLAB on it, none of which have had any problems. I took a MATLAB class dealing with huge data sets and my PC handled everything just fine. I was able to run MATLAB with large data sets, R with special packages, Python just for fun, and Google Chrome all at once without any issues.