yeah, but the mackbook shells alone are worth 300 bucks
Makes you wonder why - it's just a hunk of metal/plastic with 3/4 of an apple on it - really no big deal.
Also, who cares how much the shell is worth, every laptop comes in one.
yeah, but the mackbook shells alone are worth 300 bucks
Two words. Aluminum Design. That's pretty much why quite a few people prefer MacBook Pros. Kinda like how everything in the kitchen has to be stainless steel compared to the basic white design. And why the stainless version costs more. This can be made to apply for anything from clothes (why on earth does it say CK and cost 400$? This alternative without the logo is just 10$!) to cars (Why buy a 400000$ Ferrari, when a cheap Toyota does the same thing).yeah, but the mackbook shells alone are worth 300 bucks
Makes you wonder why - it's just a hunk of metal/plastic with 3/4 of an apple on it - really no big deal.
Also, who cares how much the shell is worth, every laptop comes in one.
yeah, but the mackbook shells alone are worth 300 bucks
Makes you wonder why - it's just a hunk of metal/plastic with 3/4 of an apple on it - really no big deal.
Also, who cares how much the shell is worth, every laptop comes in one.
This is silly but the Ferrari comparison doesn't really work. A Ferrari will have much better performance than a cheap Toyota. A Macbook doesn't have much better performance than the equivalent Windows laptop.
Macbooks ARE worth the price put on them (well minus the profit margins) due to the high quality manufacture and parts put into them alongside R&D etc. The question is does this add enough value? For some the answer is yes, for others the answer is no.
Only big difference in Mac vs a "normal" laptop without looking at design/price is the OS. Macs are bundled with Mac OS X and most others with Windows 7. Somehow people think that making a Windows machine with Mac OS X is a sin, but adding a Windows partition for a Mac OS X computer is basically a must if you want to use any kind of application meant for industrial use (at least for now, may change in the future).
Probook 4530s w/ Core i5-2410M, 4GB RAM & 500GB 7200 RPM with complete aluminum design. Triple boots Windows 7 Pro x64, Mac OS X Lion (all major components work), & Linux. Basically a Macbook Air with no SSD & bigger screen.Two words. Aluminum Design. That's pretty much why quite a few people prefer MacBook Pros. Kinda like how everything in the kitchen has to be stainless steel compared to the basic white design. And why the stainless version costs more. This can be made to apply for anything from clothes (why on earth does it say CK and cost 400$? This alternative without the logo is just 10$!) to cars (Why buy a 400000$ Ferrari, when a cheap Toyota does the same thing).yeah, but the mackbook shells alone are worth 300 bucks
Makes you wonder why - it's just a hunk of metal/plastic with 3/4 of an apple on it - really no big deal.
Also, who cares how much the shell is worth, every laptop comes in one.
Only big difference in Mac vs a "normal" laptop without looking at design/price is the OS. Macs are bundled with Mac OS X and most others with Windows 7. Somehow people think that making a Windows machine with Mac OS X is a sin, but adding a Windows partition for a Mac OS X computer is basically a must if you want to use any kind of application meant for industrial use (at least for now, may change in the future).
macs are not highly overpriced, only someone who cant afford the quality says that.
enough said.
One word: CAD. Have you ever tried Computer Aided Design on a Mac? Yeah I know, that must be because there isn't a real possibility for it. Sure you can use Wine/VMWare/Parallels, but you'll never really get into it without a separate partition. Having Windows 7 on a Mac =/= using it all the time. I rarely open the Windows partition since OS X boots from power down/sleep mode faster than Windows 7, but when it comes down to CAD (AutoCAD, Solid Edge, Pro/Engineering, MathCad (not 3D modeling, but still), etc.) I just have to use the Windows partition. No other option. Sure some CAD programs are being made multi OS, but it'll take years for the coding to match the level of performance the Windows versions offer. Also what is the real purpose of getting a Mac?And why anyone would put Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro is beyond me; it defeats the purpose of getting a Mac.