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Cheap Apple Mac Notebooks

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  • M4RKM
    M4RKM Posts: 5,132 Forumite
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    asininity wrote: »
    Cheap and Apple dont go together, now rip-off maybe.

    rip off? no... quality yes...

    nuffsaid
  • cmatt
    cmatt Posts: 76 Forumite
    markymoo wrote: »
    rip off? no... quality yes...

    nuffsaid

    quoted for truth ;)
  • asininity
    asininity Posts: 1,615 Forumite
    I'd argue you'd get a better PC for the money you'd pay for a Mac. Or the same spec PC for half the price.
  • cmatt
    cmatt Posts: 76 Forumite
    asininity wrote: »
    I'd argue you'd get a better PC for the money you'd pay for a Mac.

    better specc'd does not mean better per se... ;)

    depends on what you use it for - I would never recommend a mac for casual usage tbh..
  • Kavanne
    Kavanne Posts: 5,093 Forumite
    markymoo wrote: »
    rip off? no... quality yes...

    nuffsaid
    i agree. also wrt service, where else can you get a same day fix on your computer problem... on a Sunday!? Took it in at opening time (11am), turned out I needed a new cd drive, got a call at 4 saying come and get it, all replaced!! Oh and free. I like that security knowing that if anything DID go wrong, I don't have to wait for a UPS bloke to pick it up, send it off to a central depot, so many chances to get lost... Not for me, I am afraid. And as a student I had 3 yr parts + labour warranty included for FREE too!
    Kavanne
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    'I do my job, do you do yours?'
  • asininity
    asininity Posts: 1,615 Forumite
    I'll agree very few PC's can beat a Mac on aesthetics.

    If you just take into account the hardware and not the name that comes with it, would you pay the same amount?? I dare say no.

    If I could afford to spend the amount of money for a Mac I'd get a PC eveytime more bang per buck.
  • M4RKM
    M4RKM Posts: 5,132 Forumite
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    cmatt wrote: »
    better specc'd does not mean better per se... ;)


    can i add longevity into the argument..

    you can buy a cheap laptop at £500, but it may only last a year before it's falling apart, or too slow to do anything of use, whereas a mac can last years... and i mean years.... *waves at his 8 year old iBook*
  • Kavanne
    Kavanne Posts: 5,093 Forumite
    markymoo wrote: »
    can i add longevity into the argument..

    you can buy a cheap laptop at £500, but it may only last a year before it's falling apart, or too slow to do anything of use, whereas a mac can last years... and i mean years.... *waves at his 8 year old iBook*
    Yeah a friend of mine had my old G4 quicksilver tower which I bought in 2002 (I think, may have been earlier) still going up until very recently.
    Kavanne
    Nuns! Nuns! Reverse!
    'I do my job, do you do yours?'
  • asininity
    asininity Posts: 1,615 Forumite
    I've got 8yr old computers running linux that are very fast. Windows isnt to a PC what OSX is to a Mac.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    markymoo wrote: »
    can i add longevity into the argument..

    you can buy a cheap laptop at £500, but it may only last a year before it's falling apart, or too slow to do anything of use, whereas a mac can last years... and i mean years.... *waves at his 8 year old iBook*
    Ah now come on, you get what you pay for now don't you, not everybody can afford MAC stuff.
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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