Originally Posted by kabuk1 (Post 1389721)

^Have you tried Nitrogen? That's pretty much all I use anymore. It's great. Runs from the card, quick, has an equalizer, and its skinnable.

iPhones honestly really remind me of Sidekicks. I had one back in 04 & that damn thing drove me nuts. I hacked it as much as I could but it was still SO limited. I had it for a year & ditched it for a Treo 650.

Like I said earlier, my main beef with apple is that they shamelessly market to the Myspace 'n' Facebook LIKE OMG crowd who care more about looking cool than getting a good value out of their computer purchase. I just don't like companies that operate that way. I'm a frugal person, and while I don't mind paying a lot for a quality device that I will get a lot of use out of(ahem, TP2), I hate overpriced crap. And apple is the reigning ruler of overpriced crap. I have noticed that the main crowd that buys apple stuff is usually yuppies & college students. They will happily pay 2 grand for a basic laptop just because its stylish & simple enough to operate that a 2 year old could work it. It's all overpriced status symbols as far as I'm concerned. I know I know, what should I care, right? I dunno why, but it just irks me. It's so wasteful. Same thing as those tanorexic girls who buy $800 purses.

My mom's friend tried to sell her her old MacBook for $600 last year. My mom(a complete tech-tard) was about to buy it too, she thought it was a good deal! I told her that if she bought it I would smash it on the sidewalk & slap her till she cried. Then I took her to Wal-Mart & picked her out a $400 laptop that had a bigger screen, bigger HD, better processor, and more ram.

Originally Posted by jdisrael (Post 1390183)

i would only purchase a mac laptop. no 400 laptop will share the same quality as an apple brand. the construction of the case is far better. the warranty is locally accessible and u can rely on them. plus u can run windows on them just the same if u so choose.

Originally Posted by Aleki (Post 1390229)

Then spend 1k on a comprable laptop and it'll still blow the lid off the mac (hardware specs + utility), while delivering that quality construction you talk about :D

As for the whole mac dual boot thing. Dont expect it to execute hardware intensive programs as well as a comparable windows machine

Still, if all youre looking for is something that is consumer media centric, and you're frustrated with windows, then go for it. But FWIW: virtually a majority of the tasks I run on my laptop are not apple compatible.