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Old 02-25-2009, 02:53 PM   #26
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why not run dual boot?

i would, ideally in the future, purchase a macbook, up the ram to 2x2G, swap out the hard drive for a 500G, and partition it to 2x250G. image the original 250G hdd onto 1 partition, use the other partition as windows plateform.

Best of both worlds.
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Old 02-25-2009, 03:39 PM   #27
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if you don't know much about computers get a mac. you're much less likely to fuck it up, or get internet pr0n std's. it doesn't matter how fast your wind03z is if all it does it blue screen, or redirect you to pr0n sites when you're trying to do some real work.

vista is god awful, and vista is what you'll most likely be stuck with unless you know enough to downgrade to xp yourself, that is if you're laptop is capable of running XP or ubuntu without loosing wifi,sound, or external display capabilities.

few things make a macbook much better than the windows laptops, mag safe battery connector is awesome, backlit keyboard that you can see what you're doing in low light. much, much, much better power handling, and as a result much better battery life. try playing a 2 hour dvd/bluray movie on a windows laptop without dimming the screen to shit, and see how much battery life you have left. 0. as well as a very solid build, unlike creaky plastic windows notebooks.

1 thing tho, if you do get a macbook, never order one fully loaded, it's always cheaper to buy a bigger hardrive/ram/mouse from a supplier like netlink, and it's the same stuff apple would have sold you for much more. which you can say about the laptops as well, but the macbooks are more about the full package than just a .3 ghz upgrade or 1 extra gb here or there.

i hate elitist, spoonfed mac users, not macs, it's usually the opposite with windows..... usually.
LOL what a load of crap.

First off the Vista complaints are about as old as saying Macs are "better at Photoshop". There's nothing wrong with Vista (I personally don't use it, but I have no problem with it) unless you're a god damn idiot that doesn't know how to disable startup programs and uninstall Norton shit that comes preloaded on some laptops.

Secondly, NONE of your points on the Windows laptops has anything to do with Windows. Magsafe adapter was a fuckin gimmick. I found it more annoying on my old Macbook than useful. Anytime I tried to use my laptop while in bed, the magsafe would come off. Tons of Windows laptops have backlit keyboards (Dell XPS Studio for one). Battery life depends on what kind of laptop you buy. Obviously, when you buy some piece of shit Inspiron 15, you're going to get shit battery life; try a Thinkpad or a higher-end Vaio and you'll get WAY BETTER battery life than a Mac (my old Thinkpad had 10h30m battery life). And plasticy Windows laptops? Yeah every laptop that has Windows on it must have shit build quality.
Like I said earlier, I exchanged my Macbook 2-3 times before I ended up returning it cause the build was so awful.

Before you call me a Mac hater, I've had TWO different generations of Macbooks and ended up getting rid of them both times cause they were so poorly built. My original white plastic one had the browning palm rests and melting/creaking plastics (google it, it pretty much affected ALL the early units). My aluminum one had loose battery covers, slanted keys, flickering screens, all of which I've found other people having on the Macrumors forum.
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Really, there are pros and cons to both sides. Vista complaints should be thrown out. Anything pre-SP1 is outdated.

Mac really pushed the envelope when they switched to Intel chips. Making it even more viable to the market since it can run Windows. I've used a Mac running Parallels and I can say it is pretty darn spot on.

Either or, if you're not so computer literate, buying a Mac will save you headaches.
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