Unless you desperately need to run incompatible software at school, I wouldn't worry. This hideous bias that Macs are crap comes from people who don't use them properly.
I've been using PCs all my life, through all my school years, and all at home, I know how to use Microsoft Power point, word, excel, and windows movie maker. And now I need to learn how to use all the Mac software. I has a sad about that.
plus, in my middle school, if somebody's computer broke, I could usually fix it. Now I won't have any experience in the computer field with these new white things.