Buy FCPX or stuck with Premiere?

Looking for some guidance here. I don't have any experience with either FCPX or Adobe Premiere so I will be learning either from scratch.
Right now I have a student edition of Production Premium CS5. Since it is the student edition I can not buy the upgrade to CS6 at the upgrade price which means I basically will just stick with CS5.
I'm looking at this as I can either learn Premiere now "for free" since I already have it, but will at some point have to buy a very expensive non-student version, or I can buy FCPX right now for $300 and learn that instead.
Any thoughts? I will be using this with a new Retina MBP so that may factor in as well since FCPX has already been updated to use the Retina display (and I doubt Adobe will provide a Retina update for CS5 since they are pushing CS6).

Why don't you download the 30 day trial from the App Store and see what you think before you lay out any cash?

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