Mac vs. Windows CS5(.5) (not a flame)

Question

Guys,
        I swear that I am not flaming here and that I am relatively new to adobe products. In fact, I learned the ins and outs of Dreamweaver CS5, but that's pretty much it. My interest in Adobe products has increased a lot and I recently purchased the Design Suite Premium for a Macbook Pro that I have that is a year old. It has 8gb RAM as opposed to my two PC laptops that have 2 gb each and are much older and not as quick. I am not tech savvy either (disclaimer).
Anyway, I basically have two questions and I'm posting them in the Windows forum because I believe that Mac users can't give criticism to a Mac:
1. I purchased CS5.5 Design Premium. I'm enrolled in a college program for web design. It interests me a lot. All of the research that I have conducted leads me to believe that Indesign would be better to have than Flashbuilder and Contribute. I know it depends upon what exactly a person is going to do, but I have many entrepreneurial ideas and believe that I could benefit from Indesign.
Is Flashbuilder anything special that I would really want to have for web design? It doesn't seem like it to me, so I went with Design Premium. However, since CS5.5 hasn't been released for Mac yet, I could cancel the order and purchase for Windows. I have only used Windows for Dreamweaver. THe only reason I am seriously considering the switch to Mac is because the computer is newer and much more powerful. I just want to be told that I will not regret it. As I said, I have no loyalty to any platform, but I am much more familiar with WIndows because it's pretty much all that I have ever used. I got a great deal on the Macbook through a friend, otherwise I would have never bought it.
Would there be any problems associated with switching to a Macbook for use of Creative Suite products? I just don't want to regret switching to the Mac, but in order to be comfortable with a PC, I'd need to upgrade as the two computers are 3 and four years old respectively and I'd like to avoid spending anymore money. As I said, Dreamweaver is my thing, but I'd like to become familiar with all of the main products in the Design Suite such as Indesign (so long as I go with Design over web premium), Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Flash.
THanks for any help. I know I just asked a buttload of questions, so I really appreciate anybody that takes the time to assist me. I really wish that I could be convinced that I won't regret going to Mac as I don't want to upgrade to a new PC.

Answer 1

As a nine year Mac user who's also had three PCs for the last seven years. I hope I can give you a pretty objective assessment of your concerns.
First of all, I've worked on two Mac forums and Yes, mac users CAN and DO criticize Macs. I owned a first generation G5 iMac and I'll tell you it was a P.O.S.
FlashBuilder is for people who are going to create Flash content (apps and games mostly) without havig to become an expert in ActionScript. If that isn't what you're looking to do, you won't need it. Contribute is more of an interface tool for easy uploading to a website like if you own a business and hired someone to build your website, but you want to be in control of daily content changes. Again, if that isn't something you need, it isn't for you.
Switching to Windows and then realizing that you would have been better off using the Creative Suite on the more powerful machine (Mac)... will cost you to switch the license from Win to Mac. Granted it isn't a whole pile of money to do it, but if you can wait for the Mac release, do it. Not because I think Macs are better, but because you've admitted the MacBook is a better machine than your PCs are. If you switch the order to the PC version, then find it doesn't run as well as you'd like, you already have a poor impression of the software because of the hardware, but then you'd have to pay and transfer the license, order the Mac software, wait for it to arrive and install & set it up opn the MacBook. A lot more frustration than you'll have if you just wait a little while for the Mac CS5.5
Lastly, since the user interfaces for CS products are now almost impossible to tell apart between Mac and Windows, you won;t need to learn a whole new way to do things to use the Mac version. I've spent the last three years jumping from CS4/CS5 on my AMD machine to my MacBook and back. I'd sometimes forget which machine I created a file on and have to smack my head & say, "Duh! I did that on the Mac!" or the other way around.
I like Macs better, but I also prefer the more powerful machine for anything I do. My next PC will be more powerful than my MacBook and it will move to #2.