<p>A desktop is harder to steal (but you should have a security cable for any laptop and then you’ll be fine).</p>
<p>The real advantage of a MacBook over an iMac is that you can take the MacBook with you. You can sit almost anywhere on campus (be it an au bon pain or the College Green) and surf the web.</p>
<p>You can take it to your buddy’s room to work together on a project.</p>
<p>You can bring it to class and take notes on it. Typing is faster than handwriting. And notes saved as word documents instead of paper are better because you can back them up, and use Apple’s Spotlight technology to find a certain topic in any of your notes. Let’s say I wanted to find every mention of FDR. It will search all my notes from all my classes (sometimes allowing me to find unique knowledge that will create the illusion I did outside research ;-))</p>
<p>Basically, a MacBook can do so much more for you then a computer stuck to your desk ever could.</p>