Desktop PC, Laptop PC, Or Macbook Pro

[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]

Originally Posted by kennysevenfold

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

[PSPDan]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

Originally Posted by Gary-VTR

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

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