Laptop £1000?

Pretentious dicks, aka people who know what they are talking about.

Nah you Apple folk are just like deeply religious people. A deeply routed sense that you're right.

Buy a Windows laptop, be a man!

And spend a disproportionate amount of your future free time fucking around with it to just make it work properly. If you look at your hourly wage and apply it to the amount of time needed to reinstall windows, cleaning the registry running spyware and virus scans etc... All of a sudden a Mac doesn't seem so expensive

cleaning the registry has been proven to have no real performance effect what so ever. Spyware is easily avoidable, anti virus and firewall are now easily sorted. Microsoft security essentials works just fine and as long as your router has a inbuilt firewall which it probably does you don't need anything more than the default firewall that comes with windows.

And spend a disproportionate amount of your future free time fucking around with it to just make it work properly. If you look at your hourly wage and apply it to the amount of time needed to reinstall windows, cleaning the registry running spyware and virus scans etc... All of a sudden a Mac doesn't seem so expensive

Don't have to do any of that on my heretic laptop! Had it a year and not a blip with it. Laptops aren't as evil as all mac users make out you know.

Yeah! Windows FTW!

That laptop looks fantastic to be honest. Don't understand people recommending Macs. Why would he want to pay more for a lower spec machine?

[Phlashman]

That laptop looks fantastic to be honest. Don't understand people recommending Macs. Why would he want to pay more for a lower spec machine?

Macs are vastly more optimised, as Apple control hardware and software you'll always get more out of what you've got.

Plus as Keltic said above. If you calculate the time you save maintaining you machine and the computing power saved by not having to run a load of anti-virus/crapware. Mac are great value for money. They'll last twice as long as any PC and cause you so much less hassle too.

It's seriously tough to explain to non-mac users how great it is. It takes so much stress out of computing.

I'll be honest the reason I went to Mac almost a year ago now was not down to the quality of the internal components it was down to the external build quality.

I had 2 fairly high spec HP laptops die on me at really inconvenient times and didn't want to find myself in that situation again. Looking at the windows laptops made to the same standards from the likes of Sony and Lenovo the price difference really wasn't as apparent as many would think.

Most laptops chassis and cases are really poorly made and the unibodied macs are far more physically robust.

Only problem I've ever noticed on laptops is heating issues, particular ones that are "optimised" for gaming, ventilation is bad enough on most laptops so the graphics chips will be prone to failure quite often. Everything else that's been mentioned (viruses etc) is down to the user, rather than the machine.

I never looked at mac as everying apple seems overpriced. I'll have a look in the mac store at weekend and have a play.

If it's for work I would check with the IT department in your office if a Mac would be suitable. OS X formats drives differently to Windows (can't remember if its NTFS or FAT32, someone with a Mac remind me). That may affect performance with any devices or software your company use. We've had that issue before at work.

It may be the case that you might have to have a partition on your Mac's hard drive for Windows and OS X. But then I guess you'd get the best of both worlds so it doesn't matter.

[Phlashman]

It's very rarely a problem these days, unless you're company runs specialised software for something. I've worked in offices with Mac and PCs (and Linux boxes) for the past 15 years and never had a problem. The only problem people tend to run into are Tech guys who are stuck in there ways.

The HDD format doesn't matter as who swaps hard drives? or even discs these days? All file swapping is done over intranets or the internet. Hard drives are only for local data.

If you hear them mutter the words, "Sorry, we're a Windows shop", make sure you utter "No, you're a bunch of incompetent fuckwits", and make pains to point out that your senior management are using iPads (they will be; almost every senior manager these days do).