only downfall is the price and slight lack of upgradability (is this a word?) but hey ho I dont expect to upgrade it until it breaks.
People will ask what your plan of use is so might want to put that down.
views and opinions. i'm looking for a laptop and would like to know what people think mac or windows?
cheers
john
Just bought a macbook and am very happy with it. the fuctionality and ease is so much better than windows. And it looks a lot swisher!
only downfall is the price and slight lack of upgradability (is this a word?) but hey ho I dont expect to upgrade it until it breaks.
People will ask what your plan of use is so might want to put that down.
no taxing programmes, i.e photo editing and vidoe editing. just general interneting and office related things
Get a Mac and you can use both OSX and Windows with either Boot Camp or something like Parallels Virtual Desktop
I, like most Mac users, would never use a PC again by choice.
I switched about 4 years ago, and was a bit concerned about it, but I was won over in about 10 minutes - it makes ordinary computing stuff enjoyable
and no longer a battle against viruses, unstable OS and rubbish compatiability problems.....
Having said that - its expensive, no two ways about it! The sneaky thing to do is to buy a little notebook computer and load Leopard onto it...
Chris
not tried the photo or video programs on it yet but they do look good. maybe not as hi-tech as photoshop but then they are a lot cheaper in the sense they come with the mac.
If you can afford it then go with the Mac. I personally think for laptops the only way to go is Linux.
i agree with the price 700 upward 
are you or do you know anyone who is a student or working for NHS? both these groups get discounts. I saved almost £600.
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only downfall is the price and slight lack of upgradability (is this a word?) but hey ho I dont expect to upgrade it until it breaks.
been a happy mac owner for a few years now. PCs have their upsides. They run office better and have more games available for them but if you a mac
will run windows in parallel and thus eliminate any office issues and i guess if you are looking for a laptop you are not bothered about gaming.
Macs are simple, as logical as computer gets and look the dogs.
if you have the mular go mac
Video and Photo Editing are some of THE most CPU intensive things to do on a Computer. No offence meant but it sounds like you dont have much
experience with Computers therefore you wont be messing about with the parts/network/upgrading bits - therefore I would bite the bullet and go MAC.
Even though it's miles away from any sort of standard they are the best for Video Editing by a long way - you can get the high end Video and
Photo Editing stuff for MAC as well as Windoze - such as Adobe Premier and Photoshop CS4 so you'll be in a better league than us PC users... but
then you pay for the priveledge.
Me - I'll stick with my (finally dual booted - Ubuntu) and Windows. Ubuntu is very much quicker than Windows but it a bit agricultural looking
but if it does the job (which it certainly does very well) then I'm happy with it.
If I'd got the thick end of 1000 quid for a MAC - I'd go that way (aswell as having a PC with Windows!)
Steve
I agree go with a mac, i have had one now for four years (the same one) it's as good today as it was when i bought it. No problems it just
works, never had it crash. I used to do a fair amount of video editing and whilst the basic photo and video software are very good I wanted something
better. I got hold of an adobe premier package, this was designed for windows. I found this very complicated to use. I then bought Final cut studio
which was whilst as good if not better than the adobe software, it;s just very logical and easy to navigate. And I guess that's my point
everything about a mac is very logical and easy to navigate.
Buy one, you won't be disappointed.
Pete
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If you can afford it then go with the Mac. I personally think for laptops the only way to go is Linux.
I changed to a macbook a year and half ago, i'm sure i wont ever be going back, everything is soo quick and responsive that when i use a pc i get
very frustrated at how slow they are.
I use mine for uni, internet, photos, music, making the odd video. Battery lasts for ages too which is great.
And to add i upgraded my RAM from 1Gb to 4Gb for £50 from crucial (may be a different price now) so you can upgrade some things 
you just cant go wrong with a mac, if you can afford it get it!
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Originally posted by Hellfire
No offence meant but it sounds like you dont have much experience with Computers therefore you wont be messing about with the parts/network/upgrading bits - therefore I would bite the bullet and go MAC.
Steve
Hi,
I switched to a Mac 18 months ago and will never look back. I'm an IT consultant and endure PC's in the office but it is such a pleasure to
come home to my Mac. The beauty is that you can take advantage of the usability when you want, you can take advantage of the sophisticated unix
underpinnings when you want or you can revert to windows when you want. It's the best of all worlds.
Yes, the price is higher than a £300 Tesco laptop but you get so much more for your money. The best bit is that you can expect your Mac to be
upgradeable to the latest operating system software for years to come without having to upgrade the hardware - unlike Vista.
My advice to keep costs down is to buy a refurbished machine. You can save 20% and still get the same warranty and support. Quite literally the only
difference is that is arrives in a plain box.
Hope this helps,
Craig.
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Yes, the price is higher than a £300 Tesco laptop but you get so much more for your money.
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Yes, the price is higher than a £300 Tesco laptop but you get so much more for your money. The best bit is that you can expect your Mac to be upgradeable to the latest operating system software for years to come without having to upgrade the hardware - unlike Vista.
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Sorry, I have to call you on that.
Vista, yes, not great to start with, some performance issues caused by Intel pressuring MS.
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However, Vista is quite acceptable now, performance is generally fine apart from on very old machines, anything of a reasonable spec these days will handle it fine.
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Of course, the next windows OS (windows 7) isn't that far away, and performs extremely well on everything I've chucked it at (including ~5 year old machines that I keep as test platforms)
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Just noticed games were mentioned too, pretty much a no-go on a mac, until you install windows anyway (this is a special apple feature
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Also, apple have skimped a bit too far on build quality recently, I've seen a fair few of their recent laptops looking like they've been through the microwave, so while their build quality was previously attractive to me, I feel its dropped to such a point that I'm better off with a PC.
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That'll be why there has been such a surge in Vista uptake in the last 2 years...not!
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I'm running Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) on a 5 year old iBook and it runs sweet as a nut. Try that on a 5 year old Tesco laptop on Vista...
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It's a shame that Windows 7 isn't released yet and as far as I understand you won't be able to upgrade the beta to the release version if you go to W7 early
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Geez, keep up at the back - I've been running Call Of Duty 4 on my Mac (not in bootcamp) and it runs brilliantly at high resolution. What you say may have been true 5 years ago but modern Mac's have pretty decent GPU's even in laptops.
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That will be why they still regularly top the charts for reliability and why it makes the headlines when another vendor gets close or occasionally pips them at the post as happened recently. Compare them with Dell and HP and see who comes out top time after time!!
hi, Ive used Macs for years, they are great. Nowadays you can always dual boot them with windows as well.
The best/cheapest way to buy is via the apple store refurbished site. Posted at about 10 each day, as new with full warranty but a decent saving.
Mine arrived last christmas eve, 22hrs after ordering!!!
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hi, Ive used Macs for years, they are great. Nowadays you can always dual boot them with windows as well.
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Quite simple, most PC users who are thinking of converting to a Mac seem to take comfort from the fact that 'favourite piece of software X'
(windows only) will still be available to them. Neither my iMac nor my Macbook have Bootcamp installed, which is available because they now have
intel chips. Apple still only have a 10% market share so it is not surprising that some software developers don't code for OSX, there is usually
an equivalent of some sort available though. For compatibility, iWork saves/loads MS Office formats, or surprisingly, I find MS Office for Mac much
better than the PC equivalent!
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why can't it run the software under it's own operating system answer because the developers don't write it for whatever reason
Really, if you just want to do the things you say (internet and office) then either will be fine.
I have recently bought a macbook, because I do quite a bit on computer and I already have an imac. They both can run windows if necessary for
windows-only software but I dont use windows much now. But they are more expensive.
Girlfriend got an Acer laptop recently and it's fine. Had no problems with Vista - it's not quite as simple as a macbook (once you
understand mac-isms) and not as stylish. Girl at work has just bought an Acer 5735 at Tesco. It is very stylish, proper widescreen and good spec -
and half the price. Not the fastest processor but a good screen and a big hard drive and it looks great. Link below but it's also available in
store (at the same price).
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3481.aspx
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hi, Ive used Macs for years, they are great. Nowadays you can always dual boot them with windows as well.