Help me choose a laptop!!!!?

I am an electrical engineering student.I wanted to buy a laptop, and I have narrowed my choice down to Thinkpad t410 and macbook pro.Going by the size of the RAM or harddisk, Macbook pro beats the Thinkpad(The indian configuration of thinkpad t410 has 2GB DDR3 whereas macbook pro has 4GB DDR3.Actually the macbook pro beats the thinkpad as far as the configs are concerned).I do a little bit of programming as well, hence I keep it on for a long time.I am not very much into looks as well.And more importantly I do not play a lot of games.My applications do not find a lot of difference with the processors as well,i3 or i5 do not make a lot of difference to me(I am still a student,guys).I do have a bit of experience working with linux systems.So working on mac may not be very difficult for me.I have been doing a lot of graph plotting(Using GMT or ferret) and data analysis as well(Usually RADAR data). I am seriously confused as to which laptop to buy,Thinkpad or MBP?If I buy a thinkpad what will I be missing out??The same question applies to Macbook pro. For scientific research, will the Mac book have any advantage or not?I do not do any animation.As I am an electronics student I do use a few hardware programming softwares like Xilinx ISE which require Windows.So If I buy a mac I will have to dual boot it with windows.Not to forget, If I use a Thinkpad I will have to use both windows and Linux.So, which laptop do you recommend??And please give me a reason to buy whichever you recommend cuz I am seriously confused!THINKPAD T410 or MBP??

Any apple is the only way to go
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With the Microsoft operation systems coming out
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And all the threats that they are looking at in Hacking and Trojans and Virus and Crashing
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Disaster is in the next room for that operating system
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Just look at the TV  shows and what computer they are using
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Apple I changed over after some 18 years and man no scan disk no defrag no virus programs no after market System Mechanic to have to pay a yearly subscription fee to
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No over heating system no nothing just
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Turn it on and with in 45 seconds I am on the net
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here's a bunch ...

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