Originally posted by Woodie Man
What was the driving force behind your decision to compare 17 inch laptops? Wasn't boneplaya talking about desktops?
Only two I could find that had the same processor. Boneplaya talks like a rich person so I picked rich person computers.
Originally posted by Woodie Man
You neglect to mention key differences between the two machines you have selected. For example, the Gateway is 1.8 cm thicker than the Macbook, outweighs it by 2.5 pounds, and is both wider and deeper than the Macbook.
I didn't grow up to be someone that complains about an extra 3 pounds. I wouldn't pay 10 dollars more to shave off 2 pounds in weight.
Originally posted by Woodie Man
The Macbook also has a higher native resolution for its display (1920 by 1200 as compared to 1440 by 900) and this display is lit using LED's, which combined with other features of the laptop give it a battery life that is 4-6 hours greater than the Gateway.
And you need to pay like 50 bucks for Apple to install a new battery eventually. I'll take the shorter battery and save the money in the long run.
Originally posted by Woodie Man
The Macbook may cost you more, but you are getting a much better machine for that amount of money. The purpose of having a laptop, even if you do not take it many places is portability. Isn't it worth some extra cost to not have to be tied to the wall all the time because of low battery life or have to lug around a brick?
1000 dollars is not worth 3 pounds or whatever less weight to me, a better screen (I'm not a photo editor, I type papers), and 5 hours of battery life. When am I ever far away from a wall outlet anyways? Whenever I see someone on a laptop at school they've always got it plugged in anyways. I'm a scientist (well in 2 weeks I will be), not a music major or some photo editing d-bag, so I'd rather spend significantly less money and invest into something more important and useful to me like a truck.
This is all I need a computer to do:
Run the internet
Open PDF's
Open Illustrator or Coreldraw (for map-making, nothing complex)
Run the internet
Type
Print
Run BitTorrent so I don't pay outrageous Apple store prices
Play music
Originally posted by Rolling Coaster
I find it quite amusing that Ckmwm finds it important that Apple is just a bit more expensive in hardware than normal cases.
Go pay another 100 dollars for an OS update.