Macbook Pro?

Chimpofdoom

Then there's also resale value.. I've seen mac mini's with G4 processors on ebay going for £200 or so!

genny

My MBP is one of the most powerful laptops I've owned - worth every penny, and come resale it'll be worth a significant amount, rather than a fiver like my last windows laptop. If you aren't a student, try the Apple refurb store, they have some refurbs with warranties.

I too drive a German car - happy to pay for quality as I appreciate it ;-)

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tonynw wrote: »

AND THEY ARE WORTH EVERY PENNY YOU PAY FOR THEM.

people that knock macbooks generaly dont understand what you get for your money with them, fantastic software included superb build quality and reliablity all built in.

tonynw

I thought the reliability was an additional accessory, because it doesn't seem to be built in at all.

Hammyman wrote: »

And whilst you're complaining about Apple, why not have a go at Lenovo who were selling Core 2 Duo laptops for £1500? If you think Macbook Pros are expensive for the spec, you ain't seen nothing until you look at the price of business class notebooks.

Which is why when you're buying a 'business class' notebook you are paying for reliability and service, neither of which you get when you buy a 'fashionista class' product like Apple.

Hammyman wrote: »

Indeed. The battery on my Macbook pro for example is guaranteed to still have 80% of capacity left at 1000 charge cycles. To give you an idea of how long that is, I hammer the hell out of mine and at 11.5 months old, its on 187 charge cycles.

Apple don't have to worry about meeting that, it'll have exploded long before the quoted 1,000 cycles are up.

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23n1th wrote: »

My acer laptop is worth EVERY PENNY I PAID FOR IT two years ago! Might not be worth the £300 I paid for it when I upgrade in another couple of years but then it was just £300 so who cares? Still running like a dream btw.

You must have low standards, or very limited experience of other laptops. A £300 laptop purchased last week doesn't even run like a dream out of the box.

At least try be a bit more honest.

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Hammyman wrote: »

And whilst you're complaining about Apple, why not have a go at Lenovo who were selling Core 2 Duo laptops for £1500?

Cos it doesn't get them cred amongst their peers. It's cool to hate on Apple products. The same people were saying the same about Microsoft a few years back.

These people secretly want Apple products; and use their 'high prices' to justify their lack of fulfilment.

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Can you please link me to the range of Microsoft laptops over the years that have consistently been overpriced and unreliable?

No thank you, I have a brain that I'm capable of using. When are you due your next shearing?

deano777_2

as a new user i'm told i cant post links so have a look at

www .jigsaw24.com/special-offers/computers-and-it?CATSSC=Notebook+Computers&VE=Apple

tonynw

23n1th wrote: »

Honesty? Theres more things I can do on my £300 laptop than I can on a macbook of over £1000.

Why exactly would my laptop not be running like a dream?? Please explain, unless you can't which I'm sure is the case since all you're doing is making stuff up trying to sound superior!



There you go, its all about "cool" and "cred" with the cult members. I don't hate apple products, I just don't want, need or care about them, hard as that is to believe for the faithful automatons.

I pity apple customers for believing the hype and myths, silly fools, after all fools and their money are easily parted!

You must have one of those supa dupa celeron things.

tonynw

BlueC

tonynw wrote: »

AND THEY ARE WORTH EVERY PENNY YOU PAY FOR THEM.

people that knock macbooks generaly dont understand what you get for your money with them, fantastic software included superb build quality and reliablity all built in.

tonynw

They aren't worth every penny at all. I maintain over 30 macbooks at work and they are over priced junk. The newer uni-body are better in terms of reliability and build quality but still not good value whatsoever.

They suit some people and not others. Simple.

Calling OSX "fantastic software" is very much a matter of opinion. It's strongest point is its simplicity, but that is also its biggest weakness.

Hammyman

Plastic Macbooks are pure rubbish and it was holding one of those and a pro in the other hand that pursuaded me to go with the Pro.

As for value for money, they are no worse than the £1000+ Toshiba Tecra or Lenovo Thinkpad T and X series.

I maintain over 30 macbooks at work and they are over priced junk

I've sold and repaired HUNDREDS of laptops over the past couple of years. The repairs have all been without fail consumer grade laptops in the £300-£600 price bracket. Its usually hinges, missing keys, charge sockets, dead batteries and the odd chipset reflow. The ones I've sold have been mostly 3+ year old business class laptops that cost more than £1000 when they were new. Not one single one has ever come back with a fault, all were on original batteries that at even 3 years old lasted longer than many new laptops do. I no longer buy consumer class Windows laptops to sell on.

The moral of the story is simple. If you want to buy something thats going to last at least 3 years without needing repairs or a new battery, spend around £1k on either a Macbook Pro or a business class laptop. Sure it'll come with less RAM and a smaller hard drive and won't have the glossy finish of the consumer grade but the reason consumer grade ones shove in more RAM than most people need and massive hard drives people will rarely fill is because they're cheaper to put in than actually building a decent laptop.