[Kyotobound]

To the original poster:

I'm heading to Japan myself for a semester in the Spring and am facing the same dilemma as you were, if you see this can you tell me what you wound up doing and how it worked out?

Or if anyone else with relevant experience has any advice: I'm an animation student in an art school in the US, heading to an art/design school in Japan for a semester. I gravitate towards PCs but Macs are more suited to a lot of the design/video editing/animating sorts of things I need to do. We use Macs pretty exclusively at my school. My PC laptop is four years old and has suffered some damage over the years, I want to buy a new laptop to bring with me when I head to Japan. Macs are better for the work I do, but so expensive and also I worry about compatibility issues, does anyone on here have experience with art/design schools in Japan and have info they can share about which operating systems, editing programs etc they tend to use?

THANKS!!
Thanks much!