You could travel to somewhere with an Apple store and have a play on the macs there? They've usually got all of the different software installed so you can have a proper play. I personally prefer Mac's, used them at college all the time and I really liked them, even though the college ones are shit. literally the whole buildings worth of imacs/macbooks are controlled by 1 or 2 macbook pro's that are in the techies office in a different building. Also, if you don't want to re-buy all your adobe stuff straight away you can install windows to your mac and run them from there until you can afford the mac versions? Bought my own about a year and a half ago and haven't looked back since, I find them so much more user friendly and they take up a lot less space too.