If you own a mac are you happy with it right now or do you have some regrets for not buying a windows machine?Haha, maybe no one's told you, but Mac fanbois are the most rabid of them all. Fanbois act like the Macbook is the best thing since Jesus walked the earth and they will go way out of their way to let you know how much they love their Mac products and how you should too. They're like a fucking cult.
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No, it was just a deal they had going on on their site. Like I said though it was probably a back to school thing.Yup they do this every year. If you're a college student and you buy a Macbook they give you a free iPod Touch 16gb if I'm not mistaken.
Haha, maybe no one's told you, but Mac fanbois are the most rabid of them all. Fanbois act like the Macbook is the best thing since Jesus walked the earth and they will go way out of their way to let you know how much they love their Mac products and how you should too. They're like a fucking cult.You know what's also a cult? People who keep talking about how unreasonably biased Mac users are and how you absolutely should never listen to them. Come on man. This is about as old and incorrect as that same Mac cult you yourself describe.
To me, though, the real killer feature of Apple is the operating system. I'm not sure if you've ever worked with it but it's just so much better than Windows. It's fast, it's easy to figure out, it's designed for everything to be as simple as possible, and it's POSIX-compliant. It's very nice to work with and I would recommend it for virtually any type or line of work.
My recommendation would be to buy an equivalent or higher end Windows laptop with a spare battery. You also said your not looking for a netbook, but you might be able to get both a standard laptop and a netbook for the same price as mac book pro. This would allow you to have something portable for presentations and something powerful for working.
i have no idea why anyone would buy both a windows laptop and a netbook to do the exact same things as the macbook pro at the exact same price, if you are put off by the price alone then why would you do this? you're paying the same thing for the same functionality just broken into two separate piecesYeah this. Kind of weird logic, StudioFortress.
I've had mine since the summer of 07 and never had anything fail on me.I know you're just speaking of personal experience... but for the record this is a logical fallacy known as selective observation (http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#selective) and doesn't really help prove anything. Regardless, you're mostly right - a new laptop reliability study found Apple laptops to be the 4th most reliable with a pretty high reliability rate (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/154921).
You know what's also a cult? People who keep talking about how unreasonably biased Mac users are and how you absolutely should never listen to them. Come on man. This is about as old and incorrect as that same Mac cult you yourself describe.Fuck you I never said this reread my post and try again. I wasn't talking about the average mac user. Hell I myself am an "average mac user" I use them every day all day. I was talking about the cult that goes on message boards preaching about the gospel of the mac. Windows has it's fanboys too I won't deny that (so does Linux) but Mac fanboys are - in my opinion - the most ardent and annoying.
Yes, but they are a bit too pricey to risk it.homie, any laptop you buy has a chance of shitting out on you.
I know you're just speaking of personal experience... but for the record this is a logical fallacy known as selective observation (http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#selective) and doesn't really help prove anything. Regardless, you're mostly right - a new laptop reliability study found Apple laptops to be the 4th most reliable with a pretty high reliability rate (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/154921).
i have no idea why anyone would buy both a windows laptop and a netbook to do the exact same things as the macbook pro at the exact same price, if you are put off by the price alone then why would you do this? you're paying the same thing for the same functionality just broken into two separate piecesSome people don't mind it but I personally find laptops a hassle to carry around. I own an eee pc and love how small and portable it is. My normal bag containing both my books and my eee takes up less space then the laptop bags of my friends. I know others who rent a locker to store their laptop on campus becuase they don't like carrying it everywhere, again I don't find this an issue. I even have a coat with pockets big enough to fully fit my eee into (although it's far from pocket sized). Finally I find it difficult and uncomfortable to hold laptops with one hand; namely using it whilst walking or standing. Again it's not really an issue with the eee. There are also smaller and thinner netbooks then my eee.
this is the most annoying thing dude, i know about logical fallacies already and i wasn't trying to prove anything concrete i really was just speaking from experience and idk why you would bring any of that up, it is a really annoying thing to doWell don't use anecdotal evidence to respond to "whilst the build quality is exceptional, the failure rate is pretty high." The only adequate response to something like that is empirical evidence.
Well don't use anecdotal evidence to respond to "whilst the build quality is exceptional, the failure rate is pretty high." The only adequate response to something like that is empirical evidence.
I wasn't using that statement to ARGUE A POINT THOUGH and you yourself acknowledged this. I was just sharing a piece of information. It's a pretty annoying move to come in and go WELL EXCUSE ME LET ME LIST LOGICAL FALLACIES AS IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THEM. It was just an offhanded comment, you didn't have to make such a big deal about it.
Yeah, there was no need for the compulsive correction though was there? I wasn't born yesterday, neither was she and we can both wipe our own arses.
I'm sure a lot of the love around Macs is justified, however I have always been put off by the price. I bought a new tower a few weeks ago and the closest Mac pro is almost four times the price!Yeah the Mac Pro is known to be extremely expensive and outdated. I'm not sure what they're going to do with it. I wouldn't be surprised if they let go of the design entirely.
I have a HP Compaq laptop at the moment with a "47Wh battery" which now lasts less than 10 minutes. How long is the battery on one of those netbooks?Not very long, couple of hours. 3 and a half I believe, maybe more when not using Wifi. But it's an extremely cheap netbook and you can get one with a higher capacity battery.
build a windows computer for cheaper and install mac OSX on it. seriously.
macs are very high build quality though, so the premium may be worth it. i am really unsure of how much more expensive they are though, so if it's only a 2-3 hundred dollar difference it may be worth it just to get a computer with high quality integrated parts.