recon 16 said:
TRUST ME YOU WANT A MAC!!!! IMO they ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!!!!!! GO FOR MAC! YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY!
Wow, my fanboy radar is going off like crazy.
Mac laptops aren't bad, but they've deproved in quality lately. There are numerous reports of poor construction like the black Macbook having the paint flake off. Some have even had the batteries catch on fire and destroy the notebook. Few have had fading palmrests, so instead of silver it becomes yellowish white. Heck, even factory construction sucks now. Some have had the plastic guards for the ventilation ports left on, resulting in heat being collected inside eventually locking up the laptop. Some have been taken apart and the owners were shocked to see massive amounts of thermal paste applied, resulting in the paste being an insulator instead of a conductor.
So if you're going to get a Mac, wait for quality to improve or just buy a Dell. The XPS series has improved over the years, and now it's one of the best notebook series in the market. IBuyPower isn't bad either. ASUS has some nice laptops too.
Oh and if you're really going to get the Macbook and you're looking for good performance, just run Windows XP instead of Mac OS X. It's been proven by Maximum PC that Intel powered Macs run Windows XP faster than Mac OS X in EVERY app they tested. That included games, photoshop, EVERYTHING they tested, heck even apps that were Mac Universal certified ran on Windows XP better than Mac OS X.
Mac OS X is damn pretty -no doubt about that. When it comes to performance, it's like the guy who rolls up to a stoplight in a pristine supercar only to be smoked by the clapped-out hooptie with a fender missing in the next lane.
*Analogy courtesy of Maximum PC
My apologies to the Mac fanboy, and you know who you are.