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- Urkel, on 05/15/2008, -5/+65Every Macbook owner would recommend a Macbook? Even if it was true (and it isn't) then a recommendation for a notebook isn't a sale. I may PREFER my mac but it's not easy to force my $1500 Macbook down someones throat when all they need is a $600 PC.
Secondly, Vista on the right hardware isn't nearly as bad as people say. The problem in the past is that it was hard to find the "right" hardware but nowadays it's pretty easy. - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -11/+36LOL
Yeah, right.
Maybe if they drop prices significantly.
This is the work of a fanboy, anyone who pays attention can see that the low end laptop market is what's taking off right now, not over priced Macs. - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -4/+23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is the year of the Linux Desktop too. - FDL1, on 05/15/2008, -7/+26Enjoy your trendyness while it lasts, soon it'll be nothing more than another Motorola Razr.
- TheOther1, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13One word: *****
- SLockhart, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13Haven't read the article yet but that claim is absolutely ridiculous.
- rickcarson, on 05/15/2008, -2/+17I own and would _never_ recommend the bottom end MacBook. Combo drives suck.
The middle MacBook seems like the best deal, 1300 vs 2000 for the MacBook Pro, of which the differences are size, colour, and a tepid video card. - TexasShiv, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12This is the most absurd headline I've ever seen. I don't know what's most disturbing, that people are digging this as an accurate story or that the person who wrote this actually believes in it.
- MacParrot, on 05/15/2008, -2/+14While I would applaud another Mac sale, why would you do this? If all you plan on doing is running Linux, there are far more machines just as capable as a MacBook for a lower price with similar form factors.
- Marinium, on 05/15/2008, -2/+15You posted this same exact comment on another Mac article. You do know that posting it over and over again does not make it true right?
- legoalert33, on 05/15/2008, -4/+14I call shenanigans.
- rickcarson, on 05/15/2008, -10/+20Your inability to spell Mac excites me physically.
Are you gonna finish me off? Who starts it finishes it! - samcrut, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7I'm a big Mac supporter and have been using Apple computers since the 70's, but that article is, well, that's BS and piled on pretty thick. The numbers are random generated hyperbole.
- kamikazekeety, on 05/15/2008, -4/+1199% of statistics are made up on the spot. BURIED AS INACCURATE.
- pauldy, on 05/15/2008, -3/+9Pinwheel of death what are you using 10.3 on an imac rev a with 256MB of ram.
- MacParrot, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9Or no video card at all as every MacBook comes standard (with no way to upgrade) with Intel integrated graphics. As far as the combo-drive goes, I sort of agree. Not many people really bother burning DVDs anymore (or even CDs) in the age of digital content. The low-end MacBook is quite a servicable little machine that will fit the needs of most people.
If you need more and the price of a new MacBook Pro is too much, go refurb. After the last round of MBP upgrades, there were 2.16 C2D MacBook Pros for sale for $1299 at the US Store. I picked up a 2.33 GHz model for $1499 and after 4 years with a G4 iBook it was a breath of fresh air. - aimhelix, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6After a slickdeals.net sale, I got me a Q6600 + 3GB Dell system with Vista Home 32-bit. So far, so good. It cost me $519, shipped.
- desuexmachina, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I have been recommending Macbooks to everybody who asks me. Telling them to buy a Macbook is an excellent way to never have to support them again. I will never buy one again but I certainly don't want to be supporting anybody getting 3d animated emoticon spyware and a trillion popups all the time. Recommending Macbooks is my way of getting my evenings back so I can play Portal all night.
- cayqel, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8two fingers on the track pad switches the button to "right-click"
- ninja0, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8Thats not the point. I like the look feel and size of it, and I think apple did a good job on that. I don't really like OSX that much as I am a customization whore and all i was able to find in the few hours I played with one was stupid modifications such as changing the bar color to 1 of 2 colors, etc.... pretty lame if you ask me.
- ninja0, on 05/15/2008, -6/+14I want one, but just cuz of the physical look and size. Probably install linux on it or something
- hernyman, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Something I always see when Mac fanboys do this predictions is that they only see the usual markets: USA, Europe and Japan.
Outside those places, nobody gives a f**k for a Mac. I live in Argentina, in South America, and, if you think Macs are overpriced in USA is because you don't live here :D The cheapest Macbook in the official Apple distributor costs 5999 argentine peso, which is at today currency rate 1875 US dollars!!!!
http://www.macstation.com.ar/store/index.php?secci ...
I know we are a small, very small market, but remember: the rest of the world doesn't give a f**k for a Mac. - MacParrot, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Actually he's posted the same thing on several articles. I like to think of it as just a really looooong stutter.
- pintomp3, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4i work in IT so people often ask me what computer they should buy. i try to remain neutral and suggest everything from HP and Dell, to Apple. i explain that for almost everything they will do, a mac work well and they can take it to a genius bar for easy servicing. but most of the people want a laptop under 1000, often closer to the 500 range. it's hard to suggest paying 1300 to someone who just needs to use the internet and use office.
- sockpuppets, on 05/15/2008, -7/+17Could you please add a second mouse button already?
- matriculated, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4I own a Macbook and I'd recommend getting one to anyone but this story is silly. Half the market is going to pay a premium to own an Apple product, learn a new OS and ditch everything they learned on Windows? Please.
- haydesigner, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3"clickish" is an interesting variation as well.
- TheWorm, on 05/15/2008, -2/+5They have one...Two fingers on the trackpad. Easier than reaching for the right click button anyway.
- threemagic, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6"Mac is the little clickish hippie OS that has no business in the workplace."
It works fine in a business environment and integrates just fine. I'm think you are the one who has no business in the IT workplace. - oppokaze, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3No factual basis, faulty logic. Buried as inaccurate.
Nothing against apple or macs, I think the hardware is excellent, this story is BS though. - HolyChimp, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Appl€
- kipmartin, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3nothing wrong with a mac running a dual boot of OS X with Fedora, Ubuntu, whatever.
i love my macbook and find the OS configurable enough for my tastes. i spend too much time working to want to mess with colors and other customizations. - bubbadoo989, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Dude, I'm running Fusion on my entry-level (2.16 core 2) mbp. I run Suse server, ubuntu and windows xp with incredible performance with each os.. The core Mac OS is an incredible os, with Mach OS underpinnings.
I have nothing but good things to say about my MBP, and this comes from years of Dell, IBM, HP and Toshiba laptops. They all stop working at some future date. But the MBP takes a licking and keeps on ticking. - doctorcaligari, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4I can second your comment. All of the Mac refurbs I (and my friends) have purchased have performed wonderfully, and recommend those to friends over buying new Macs.
- Xboxster, on 05/15/2008, -1/+4" 2) Virtually no Vista notebook owners will recommend most models from any given manufacturer when asked. "
I wouldn't recommend a laptop with Vista. Especially if you're looking for something sub-$1000. I actually would recommend a MacBook, although I never really used one. - hartley, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2As opposed to 20 years ago, when they had like 95% of the college/education market?
- rolf, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I'm crying, really.
Buy what you want, I don't care. Unless I have to pamper your computer for you. - modusop, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I haven't burnt many discs all year - I don't miss it. I'd do away with optical drives altogether if all content distro was online..
- kurejibitch, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Jesus, I'm sick of the PC/Mac debate. This is even worse than PS3/XBOX/Wii/what-the-***** ever. I have a desktop PC and have had desktop PCs since I was 5, Windows all the way (excluding Macintosh in grade school for Oregon Trail on computer lab days!) Three weeks ago I asked for a Macbook as my grad present. Beautiful interface, easy to use, it works with me. I love it. I think other people I know would like it, too.
Does my Macbook being pretty mean Windows sucks? NO. Windows was ***** fine for 12 years. But I'm not rich, my desktop was clunky and tired, I've never had a laptop before -- ANY new computer would have seemed shiny, easy to use, intuitive. (Don't even play that Vista card on me.) Point is? Shut up, Mac guys. I love (our) computer as much as you, but I am so un-inclined to even compare PCs and Macs comfortably that it's hard for me to understand where you get your goddamn elitism, your Windows User/Computer hate, your seething disgust. Where does it come from? Why does it drive you? Can you be any pettier? Off the high horse, you self-obsessed, haughty dbags. You're nothing better than that kid from Toy Story comparing Woody and Buzz Lightyear (oh, *****, lame reference. Excuse me.) - threemagic, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3I'm sure you meant: run Vista well...
- rickcarson, on 05/15/2008, -3/+7Well, if they want a desktop then yeah, why recommend a laptop?
But if they want a laptop, the Apple line up is okay, unless the only thing they care about is price, in which case try to persuade them to give Linux a go. Especially once you realise that to get the really low prices, the other laptops massively compromise on things like CPU.
I'd have to question the intellectual honesty of someone suggesting anything other than a Core 2 Duo for a laptop CPU, especially if their victim is going to be running "that other OS"... why would you use crippled hardware to run it on? And once you start looking at the C2D and a decent minimum spec (even if it doesn't have _all_ the bells and whistles of the Mac), you should see that the price difference is a lot closer than you'd think. - dlsspy, on 05/15/2008, -2/+4Would a second mouse button be significantly more convenient than two fingers on the touch pad and a click like I do now? I mean, my fingers are already there, and with that I've got an awfully large right mouse button.
- redwallhp, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I got my MacBook this year, and it's great. I do think 50% is a little ridiculous though. I think it's one of those 76% of statistics that were made up on the spot.
- 68024, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Typed from my own macbook: *****.
- aimhelix, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2No it won't.
- pauldy, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I must have been looking at the refurb page to long cause the entry level macbook pro is 1999. The refurb page has a macbook for 949 which seem more than reasonable for the performace of the machine.
- namredips, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Strange... up unto about a 2 years ago (maybe 1.8 years), I used nothing but linux, windows or dos. All my software development, video, what have you (so thats a had toshiba, dell and gateway laptops (maybe an acer as well) I got a macbook, pulled it ouf the box in and in like 20 minutes I was up and running, writing papers and coding. Its only gotten better. No crashng, I never turn the thing off... just open up the lid and go. I don't understand where all this fanboy stuff comes from, its just a better machine. Hands down its the best computing device I have ever owned. I sometimes laugh at myself for having put up with all the crap I used to put up with while running windows. At this point I don't even own a windows machine, mac pro and a macbook. I have never been so happy... I can just get the work done that I want to get done, without having to screw with the machine. I don't know that the marketshare will go up quite to 50%, much more to such things than what people like better. but as far as these other laptops being better... I just dont' see it. I literally feel like have been living under a rock for the past 20 years, telling myself that windows based machines were the better way to go... Just one man's opinion..
- RevJonathan, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Just change firefox's OS ID to Ubuntu and login.
- dagamer34, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2The best Mac laptop is a refurb MacBook Pro (2.16Ghz C2D). Good performance, decent video card, good battery life at under $1400 with tax.
- JasonCox, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Vista Notebook? Wow, Microsoft is an OEM in your country?
On a serious note, stats show that Mac owners are the #1 buying for boxed copies of Vista. So yeah, you can take your smugness and shove it. -
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