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DistrictCyclone
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I swear by my MacBook Pro.
I know what you're thinking, and I thought it, too, for many years; that they're way over-priced, elitist, and dooshy. It's true that they cost a lot more up-front ($1,200 minimum), but it's well worth it. And here's why...
I've now owned my 13" mac for 2.5 years, tossing it in a bag and hauling it to work 5 days a week, and the thing still works like an absolute gem. I've never once had to have anything replaced/repaired. About the only laptops stronger are those "Tough Book" ones designed to be used at construction sites. The thing's basically carved out of a single block of aluminum, so you don't have dozens of plastic component parts being jostled around all the time. The aluminum shell makes it a lot more durable, too. The battery still holds a charge for about 8 hours of on and off use (about 6 hours non-stop).
Contrasted with the two HPs I owned before this, it's like night and day. Each of my HP laptops cost around $600 and only lasted about a year before something REALLY major went wrong with them. In that year, they suffered from just about every problem imaginable: warped screen, cracked hinges, missing rubber feet, overheating, extreme CPU usage, power cord shorting out, battery going down to about 15 minutes of useful life, etc. Not to mention that each of them had 1/4 the RAM and 1/5 of the hard drive my mac has.
Cost-wise, I spent the same on two crappy HPs as I have on my mac, and the mac has lasted longer than both of the HPs combined. You get a lot of computer with a mac, too--I have 500GB hard drive and 4GB ram with a 2.4 ghz processor--you'd pay about the same (or more) for an HP with the same configuration. You might not need all of that capacity (I have a lot of music and store a lot of my high-resolution photography [very large files] on my machine), but pound-for-pound it's better than an HP. Throw in the fact that you'll constantly be struggling with your HP, and it can be a pretty easy decision.
I know what you're thinking, and I thought it, too, for many years; that they're way over-priced, elitist, and dooshy. It's true that they cost a lot more up-front ($1,200 minimum), but it's well worth it. And here's why...
I've now owned my 13" mac for 2.5 years, tossing it in a bag and hauling it to work 5 days a week, and the thing still works like an absolute gem. I've never once had to have anything replaced/repaired. About the only laptops stronger are those "Tough Book" ones designed to be used at construction sites. The thing's basically carved out of a single block of aluminum, so you don't have dozens of plastic component parts being jostled around all the time. The aluminum shell makes it a lot more durable, too. The battery still holds a charge for about 8 hours of on and off use (about 6 hours non-stop).
Contrasted with the two HPs I owned before this, it's like night and day. Each of my HP laptops cost around $600 and only lasted about a year before something REALLY major went wrong with them. In that year, they suffered from just about every problem imaginable: warped screen, cracked hinges, missing rubber feet, overheating, extreme CPU usage, power cord shorting out, battery going down to about 15 minutes of useful life, etc. Not to mention that each of them had 1/4 the RAM and 1/5 of the hard drive my mac has.
Cost-wise, I spent the same on two crappy HPs as I have on my mac, and the mac has lasted longer than both of the HPs combined. You get a lot of computer with a mac, too--I have 500GB hard drive and 4GB ram with a 2.4 ghz processor--you'd pay about the same (or more) for an HP with the same configuration. You might not need all of that capacity (I have a lot of music and store a lot of my high-resolution photography [very large files] on my machine), but pound-for-pound it's better than an HP. Throw in the fact that you'll constantly be struggling with your HP, and it can be a pretty easy decision.
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