How can you not buy a macbook?

[Martin]

I'm been looking for a laptop, so I went to Best Buy tonight. They had a shitload of regular laptops and all of them paled in comparison to the macbooks. Since all laptops have more or less the same innards, the fit, finish and packaging is what really set them apart. The windows laptops ranged from OK to gaudy, ugly and tacky and not a single one of them was as thin as the macbook. I'm typing this on a 5 year old T42 - its in a nice slim 1" package, why the hell is Apple seemingly the only one making thin laptops?

Anyway, if I can't find one on craigslist and save a few bucks, I'll probably go pick up the 13" macbook tomorrow.


We have Mac forums, we have hardware forums, so the question is, "How can you not post in the proper forum?"

ATOT Moderator ElFenix

 

[DeviousTrap]

Why not another thinkpad? (or a Dell Latitude?)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Martin
I'm been looking for a laptop, so I went to Best Buy tonight. They had a shitload of regular laptops and all of them paled in comparison to the macbooks. Since all laptops have more or less the same innards, the fit, finish and packaging is what really set them apart. The windows laptops ranged from OK to gaudy, ugly and tacky and not a single one of them was as thin as the macbook. I'm typing this on a 5 year old T42 - its in a nice slim 1" package, why the hell is Apple seemingly the only one making thin laptops?

Anyway, if I can't find one on craigslist and save a few bucks, I'll probably go pick up the 13" macbook tomorrow.

ORLY

 

[dbk]

IT'S A RIPOFF

 

[nageov3t]

looking at the price tag makes walking away much easier.

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: Martin
I'm been looking for a laptop, so I went to Best Buy tonight. They had a shitload of regular laptops and all of them paled in comparison to the macbooks. Since all laptops have more or less the same innards, the fit, finish and packaging is what really set them apart. The windows laptops ranged from OK to gaudy, ugly and tacky and not a single one of them was as thin as the macbook. I'm typing this on a 5 year old T42 - its in a nice slim 1" package, why the hell is Apple seemingly the only one making thin laptops?

Anyway, if I can't find one on craigslist and save a few bucks, I'll probably go pick up the 13" macbook tomorrow.

ORLY

Everybody knows this.

 

[DrPizza]

Gee, I've gotta agree with the OP here. When you compare a $1000 macbook to a $400 laptop, the macbook wins hands down.

 

[JTsyo]

Originally posted by: Martin
...
the fit, finish and packaging is what really set them apart...

How about the cost?

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Gee, I've gotta agree with the OP here. When you compare a $1000 macbook to a $400 laptop, the macbook wins hands down.

Now compare your $1,00 macbook to this $900 Dell. And yes I know that this one doesn't have the webcam so it doesn't match spec-for-spec, but there are tons of other configs available.

 

[SlitheryDee]

What's the price premium for thinness and sleek styling in otherwise equally speced models these days?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Gee, I've gotta agree with the OP here. When you compare a $1000 macbook to a $400 laptop, the macbook wins hands down.

It's like 2.5 times!

 

[speg]

Don't forget about OS X, iLife, etc...

 

[uclaLabrat]

Yeah, I think it's fairly well explained. Macs are nice, sure, if you don't mind paying 60-100% more than you need to for the same amount of computing power. Then again, if you buy your PC's based on the fact that they're "thin and shiny/sleek" then you have other problems....but if it works for you, then by all means, go ahead.

 

[lifeobry]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Gee, I've gotta agree with the OP here. When you compare a $1000 macbook to a $400 laptop, the macbook wins hands down.

Macs are nice. Just not "$600 extra for pretty much the same thing" nice.

 

[xSauronx]

id take a thinkpad over a macbook any day of the week. you couldnt pay me to use an apple product, and if you gave me a mac, id have linux on it before the afternoon was over.

 

[speg]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
id take a thinkpad over a macbook any day of the week. you couldnt pay me to use an apple product, and if you gave me a mac, id have linux on it before the afternoon was over.

Why so much hate?

 

[Jumpem]

They are ridiculously overpriced, and run an inferior OS.

 

[Jeff7]

Like this:























See? I didn't buy a Macbook.

 

[funkymatt]

get an x60s or an x200 if you're looking to spend money. lenovo still makes good laptops!

 

[reallyscrued]

Wow.

Lots of sarcasm meter calibration needed in this thread.

 

[dud]

I owned a Macbook ... and sold the Macbook.

I found more usefulness in my current Asus netbook.

You've fallen for the marketing. Run away ...

 

[sdifox]

The TV ads piss me off.

 

[speg]

Originally posted by: Jumpem
They are ridiculously overpriced, and run an inferior OS.

OS X is inferior? But I've got the box right here, says it's the worlds most advanced!

 

[sonambulo]

Easy.

Don't go to the store and don't give them your money. Doye.

 

[iGas]

My sister thought that she is being smart by talked her 15 year old son into buying a macbook for $1400 CAD. Tax and other software bring the macbook to just under $2K (poor kid was coned out of his hard earned money from working at Wendy's).

Being a mean uncle that I'm, I put the kid & his snotty mom in their place by showed them that I can do what ever his Mac could on a more powerful Linux laptop for less than $500 CAD.