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Bought my daughter a Macbook Pro

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Dulanic said:
Ah the if you don't like what I like it's because you just don't know how to use it thought philosophy of apple users.

There is no argument the MacBook air hardware is well designed however.
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i'm not an apple user mainly

like it or not you learn the tricks and shortcuts and eventually know an os like the back of your hand, switching then comes with a learning curve. so quick judgement on whats better if you lack equal proficiency can be skewed.
 
Yea, I used to be an apple hater until I bought an MBP two years ago. I ended up selling it though, as I don't have much use for a laptop, but I was truly surprised at the build quality of the thing.

I don't care much for OSX either, but it's more of a what I'm used to type of deal. I'm very efficient in what I can do on windows, and often times, the "user friendliness" of OSX just got in my way. I'm not knocking OSX though, it just isn't for me.

That said, if I ever need another laptop in the future, it'll likely be the 11" Air, or whatever else is powerful and small at the time.
 
I was an Apple hater until I bought an iPod 5G, which I replaced with an iPod touch 1G, which I replaced with an iPod touch 2G, which I replaced with an iPhone 3GS.

Then it started. I then bought a 2009 MacBook Pro 13". The next year, I bought an iPhone 4 and replaced the 13" MBP with a 13" MacBook Air (2010) model.

Due to a fluke with Amazon's 20% off promotion last year, I was able to get the latest 13" MacBook Air (4GB/128GB) for less than $1,000 so I sold the older one. We're now all Mac family.

Me:
13" MacBook Air 2011 (4GB/128GB)
iPhone 4S

Wife:
13" MacBook Air 2009 (2GB/128GB)
iPhone 4
 
loki8481 said:
I'd just as soon put that money on a thinkpad.
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Wise move.

When Apple can come close to competing with Lenovo on design and website support, they might be OK.
- Where are the MBP service manuals?
- Is everything held in with standard (phillips-head) screws?
- Where are the middle and right trackpad buttons?
- Where are the volume buttons?
 
HAL9000 said:
Just out of curiosity, like what?
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The dock thingy sucks compared to the windows 7 task bar thingy.
One top menu is a stupid idea especially if you've plugged it into a second display. I'm working in this window over here I'll just go to the menu all the fucking way over here by frantically swiping the touch pad. It also sucks if you've got a few windows open, you have to bring the window into focus before you can get to its menu.

There's a bunch of other things that used to piss me off about it as well but I've managed to wipe a lot of it from my memory with the aid of cheap alcohol and kitchen cleaner.
 
WelshBloke said:
The dock thingy sucks compared to the windows 7 task bar thingy.
One top menu is a stupid idea especially if you've plugged it into a second display. I'm working in this window over here I'll just go to the menu all the fucking way over here by frantically swiping the touch pad. It also sucks if you've got a few windows open, you have to bring the window into focus before you can get to its menu.

There's a bunch of other things that used to piss me off about it as well but I've managed to wipe a lot of it from my memory with the aid of cheap alcohol and kitchen cleaner.
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not trying very hard?
http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79

each os has stupid all over it... windows requires ultramon if you use multiple monitors, even for windows 7, they couldn't add a simple feature to make the start bar go across both screens. so you can't exactly complain about one and not the other.
 
0roo0roo said:
not trying very hard?
http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79

each os has stupid all over it... windows requires ultramon if you use multiple monitors, even for windows 7, they couldn't add a simple feature to make the start bar go across both screens. so you can't exactly complain about one and not the other.
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Pretty sure it will work fine if you use a span rather than separate desktops.

Personally, I don't want the task bar on both screens.
 
0roo0roo said:
not trying very hard?
http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79

each os has stupid all over it... windows requires ultramon if you use multiple monitors, even for windows 7, they couldn't add a simple feature to make the start bar go across both screens. so you can't exactly complain about one and not the other.
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Every OS will have things different people prefer. I personally would hate a bar across both monitors as I watch TV full screen on my 2nd monitor.
 
My MacBook Air is the best laptop I've owned. No other laptop come even close to the build quality and it was only $1300.
 
I took a gamble on a Mbp a little over a year ago and love it. I'm in the market for a replacement now though and really want to find a 'pc' laptop with all of the nice hardware functions I like about the MBP but doubt I'll have any luck. One can hope though.
 
Fritzo said:
Well, all the Ultrabook makers are imitating Apple's Aluminum thin designs. That one from Vizio is the sexay:

14inchlaptopimg0145.jpg
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I saw those Vizio computers yesterday...and couldn't believe I was drooling over a Vizio computer. LOL.
 
loki8481 said:
funnily enough, owning a macbook has turned me from being ambivalent towards the company to a raging Apple hater.

I feel really comfortable saying it's probably one of the worst purchases I've ever made.

the OS sucks, that's a given. the dock is one of the most retarded UI elements I've ever used. why does it exist? and using the trackpad is a nightmare; all the gestures just seem like pointless gimmickry. god bless anyone who's able to use it without giving up and buying a real mouse. (that's ignoring the fact that I had to load up google on my desktop to figure out how to left click... I'll chalk that up to user error, but the macbook is the first laptop I've ever worked with where tapping to click on the trackpad isn't enabled by default)

but I thought I was safe paying for the hardware quality... until about 4 months in when, out of the blue, the battery just stopped working.

fortunately it was still under warranty (because heaven forbid Apple builds their laptops so I could try taking it apart and troubleshooting it myself), but waiting in the Apple store is yet another miserable experience. it's like Walmart with a slightly higher credit rating in the atmosphere. just swarms of kids and housewives. and god forbid the store employees actually help me when they can show some 60 year-old grandma how awesome Garageband is instead.

I ended up needing a replacement (wherein I'm pretty sure they just gave me some random refurb). I took it home and installed Windows 7 on it that night... they tried to talk me into buying Applecare (I'm assuming their products are so defective that most consumers consider this a must-have?), but I'd just as soon put that money on a thinkpad.
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i hated Tiger and used a mouse

love 10.7 and the gestures and never use a mouse

i've always hated laptop trackpads and gestures make it usable
 
Fritzo said:
Well, all the Ultrabook makers are imitating Apple's Aluminum thin designs. That one from Vizio is the sexay:

14inchlaptopimg0145.jpg
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That keyboard looks godawful to type on though.

What makes regular laptop keyboards work, is the slope they have on the side of the keys. The chiclet keys on apple keyboards and other manufacturers, to compensate for this, give you a generous spacing between the keys. These vizio keys look like they're practically touching each other.
 
Binarycow said:
she couldnt possibly be more of a jailbait than this one
http://ghastlydoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ugly-fat-girl-bikini-old-woman-pictures1.jpg
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Looks like Jabba the Hut had a daughter.

When i had my older white macbook, used to have vmware running windows 7 along side mac osx. I always felt limited what i could do with mac osx, even basic file organization was a pain. The macbook pro's are amazing machines and vastly overpriced vs there windows counterparts. At least that what windows users say. Mac users will pay anything to be an apple fanboy.

Now using an hp dm1z, have it dual booting windows 7 and mac osx. Works for me.
 
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My new job (mar 2011) provided a MBP to work on. Ever since then I've been using less and less windows. It started several years ago though

First wife got an iPod, then work started to develop an app and the boss got on an Apple kick (and we started installing http://www.savantav.com/ on yachts). So I jumped right into a Mac Mini to program the things. However that didn't really start my push, just got me used to the OS and how to do things. Then she and I both got iPhones. That pretty much sold me and I'll never use another phone OS - Android included. Apple just does it right.

So I get handed this MBP last year and within a few minutes I'm at a terminal prompt sshing into a SunOS box that I manage - I've gotten the Java App our vendor provides up and running for provisioning, popped up iChat and started talking with the office re: orders.

On windows I would have needed to download putty, download and install another browser and then Java, downloaded at least 2 IM clients, but I know I can find one that supports everything we use.

I prefer TunnelBlick now for openVPN, I use daily Skype, Chicken, Blink Lite, and SQLDeveloper (all of which are available in Windows too in different apps). I was actually surprised by the amount of stuff available now, and by how little my workflow changed. The machine doesn't need rebooting, I don't need to log in anywhere except for websites (sharepoint mostly and our applications), and the machine build is beyond good. Gestures are awesome (I don't know why people don't like them, it makes using a trackpad very worth it.) I do have a magic mouse, and gestures on that thing keep my carpal tunnel down to a dull roar.

That being said - I'm buying my own in a month or two as a desktop replacement, and retiring my q6600/nvidia 250gts.
 
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