Desktop PC, Laptop PC, Or Macbook Pro

[haz_pro]

What would you choose and why?

I will be in the market soon for an upgrade as my laptop is dieing.

At the moment my laptop is 17" and so i never move it, making me sway towards a desktop. How ever i think if i had a smaller laptop i would transport it alot more often.

Discuss.

[Predator_R32]

Laptop pc for me

i looked at the dell xps m2010, its like a desktop but classed as a laptop, its crazy

[Craig_B]

MAC all the way!

[Psycho18]

I always say desktop pc for power i.e gaming/intensive apps. Laptop pc for your regular user. Mac if you think your cool.

[MunkyBoy]

Depends on your use totally.

Mac's are nice, but if you are going to be doing low end stuff, they are just expensive for what a cheap PC can do.

You need to decide if you need the portability of a laptop.

[hellonpluto]

all depends what you want from your computer.

Gaming/internet/e-mail/office products - Desktop PC
Internet/e-mail/office products - Laptop PC
If you want a doorstop - mac

[P90PTS]

MBPro FTW! I have 2

[smittytom]

Why do people dislike mac's?
Have you used one more than once?

[gj89]

Aye as agreed with others, your use should depict your choice, unless you have an insane budget, and if it is infact a desktop then build one yourself, a hell of a lot cheaper.

[P90PTS]

Smitty - Because most folk cant afford them and also they dont know how to use them so presume they're shit.

Its like almost everyone on this site likes saxo's ask them what they think of a non-saxo and most will say they're shit and a waste of cash

[haz_pro]

i would like a mac, and im sure i can do all the programming i need to do at uni on it. How ever there is no avoiding it is overpriced for the spec, except for possibly the fact it has a full metal case. That may sway me.

I have decided on a laptop for now, not sure what one though, can spend up to a grand, and it must have 4gb ram atleast, and higher then a 2 ghz processor, preferably core 2 duo.

any suggestions?

[Gary-VTR]

i would like a mac, and im sure i can do all the programming i need to do at uni on it. How ever there is no avoiding it is overpriced for the spec, except for possibly the fact it has a full metal case. That may sway me.

I have decided on a laptop for now, not sure what one though, can spend up to a grand, and it must have 4gb ram atleast, and higher then a 2 ghz processor, preferably core 2 duo.

any suggestions?

http://gizmodo.com/5065133/the-truth-about-the-apple-tax

Good choice choosing laptop. £1k won't get you much if you want to go Mac.

[kennysevenfold]

Why do people dislike mac's?


There user specific.

Not that good for general useage.

[WheresMeNuts]

Mac's are for people who never download anything.So I would say Desktop PC.

[smittytom]

There user specific.

Not that good for general useage.

Im sorry but how is a mac not good for general usage?
I can do way more general stuff on my mac than i can on any windows machine and it works.
Have you actually used a mac that is the question?

Mac's are for people who never download anything.So I would say Desktop PC.

And how is this true what do you mean downloading?
Music, Movies Apps?
Music,Movies you can use iTunes or every other illegitimate way of obtaining it same with apps? So how that point is relevant i don't know.
If anything that would be pro mac because you dont need virus protection against all the crap thye pack into ZIP files and crap like Limewire

[Steve_90]

Mac's are the way forward. Yes they're expensive but you get what you pay for. After using Mac for a while I would never go back to Windows.
And to the people saying Mac's can't do this and that, you obviously haven't used one.

[PSPDan]

I have a PC and I spent £1100 on a MacBook last Christmas. I was also a PC fanboy but I would never go back to Windows now.

In answer to the thread I would buy the MBP, possibly 15" although the new 13" is nice and it's the perfect size in my opinion.

[bald24]

Get Mac - Put XP/Vista/Win7 on it - best of both worlds :)

[PSPDan]

Get Mac - Put XP/Vista/Win7 on it - best of both worlds :)

This man speaks sense. Windows ran much more smoothly on my Mac than my PC but it's not a fair comparison as my PC is much lower spec and full of viruses due to the amount of porn I downloaded between the ages of 15 and 17.

[kennysevenfold]

Have you actually used a mac that is the question?





Course i have.for the price you pay for a mac, you can get a far better spec windows pc.

[haz_pro]

Ahh I dunno! Cus I'm a student I could get the top of the range mbp 13 if I wanted for about 999. I'll have a read of that apple tax thing posted now.
Any programmers here using a mac? This is what I will promarly use it for so I will probably install unix on the comp.

[PSPDan]

Course i have.for the price you pay for a mac, you can get a far better spec windows pc.

It's not as easy as that though. I was reading an article in which the writers were given the task to configure a PC that ran as well as/better than an iMac, and the result was they ended up spending more than the iMac costs brand new. Sure it had more RAM and stuff but it just didn't run so smoothly. Although I'm sure Windows 7 has gone some way to rectifying this, Snow Leopard has just beaten it down again.

When you buy a PC you pretty much are paying for the specs. When you buy a Mac you are paying for the whole thing. They look great, are so much easier to set up and start using, there is no PC laptop that has a trackpad in the same league as the macbook, the screen resolutions on the macs are fantastic, sure you could get a 15-inch PC for less than a 13-inch mac but chances are they'll have the same resolution. The LED screens are something a lot of cheaper PC laptops don't have or if they do they are nowhere near as good.

I never use my mac for gaming (probably because this is the one area that PC shits all over it), it's solely used for designing things, editing photos/videos, viewing photos/videos, internet browsing etc.

But whilst I love macs I still wouldn't recommend one. It took me ages to be convinced to buy one and I'm glad I was. But I feel that if you just bought one on some forumers' advice you could end up being disappointed. You need to know exactly what it will be used for really. I'd say get a Sony Vaio laptop. Those things a fooking sexy.

[Gary-VTR]

Ahh I dunno! Cus I'm a student I could get the top of the range mbp 13 if I wanted for about 999. I'll have a read of that apple tax thing posted now.
Any programmers here using a mac? This is what I will promarly use it for so I will probably install unix on the comp.

Craddock does; although he's not primarily a programmer.

Most programmers I know use Windows/'Nix. Because it's much easier to setup a test environment on, as well as the other benefits.

With programming, the only real benefit Mac has over other OSs, is Coda.
Which, in my eyes, doesn't justify spending twice as much on hardware to run it.

Those questioning the stability of Windows, get 7. All major tech blogs/sites agree it matches or surpasses the quality of Snow Leopard. :homme:

[PSPDan]

Ahh I dunno! Cus I'm a student I could get the top of the range mbp 13 if I wanted for about 999. I'll have a read of that apple tax thing posted now.
Any programmers here using a mac? This is what I will promarly use it for so I will probably install unix on the comp.

I personally haven't ever done programming so couldn't say. But, programming is for nerds, macs are not. So get a PC.

JOKEZZ XX


Those questioning the stability of Windows, get 7. All major tech blogs/sites agree it matches or surpasses the quality of Snow Leopard. :homme:

Windows 7 is a brilliant OS (about time) as is Snow Leopard. It depends what you need it for I guess? They all seem to agree Snow Leopard is better designed. I can also run Windows 7 on my MacBook without problems in the same way you could run Snow Leopard pretty much flawlessly on a PC. I find the whole Apple experience better than the Microsoft one but tbh there's not much advantage to either at the moment.

[haz_pro]

im no nerd!

and yeah ill have a look at sony laptops, i do prefer the sony range of products as a whole.

just dont particularly like vista or windows 7, maybe ill back to xp :-\

[miken2k8]

Custom built desktop all the way can build a decent one for around 300 quid