Why all the hate for mac's? They are business and art oriented computers, and they do their job damned well. Plus the warranty and customer service is completely unbeatable by any other company. Yeah, I am a very big fan of microsoft, I absolutely adore the zune, I love Windows, Yet I cannot stay away from my macbook. Whenever I get on a regular PC laptop or desktop, I feel absolutely powerless. Yeah you get used to it, but everything is just designed for you in a mac. I really don't see a point in mac desktops, except for graphical art use, but a windows pc can do that just as well. But the laptops are just top class in my opinion. I was a mb user from 07-09 when I decided to upgrade to a newer macbook pro. I made that decision, looking at other laptops. I wasn't really interested in the mbp until I did a lot of research and came up that it was really worth it. I was not gonna go for any company with poor quality and customer service such as HP, Dell, Toshiba or Asus. I work as a computer technician, and I absolutely hate working with any of them. Its just a pain in the ass. My 3 choices was Lenovo, Sony and Apple. With very close specs, the Lenovo came in at 1100, the Sony at 1300 and the mbp at 1400. I chose the mbp because of a few simple reasons. Neither the sony or the lenovo came in a metal case, neither the sony or lenovo had the ease of getting customer service, and yet again apple won in quality.
DO not give me the bullshit that mac's run on the same hardware. Yeah its alike, very much. Uses the same processor and hard drive, memory is very close to being the same. Oh and the led backlit display. But thats where it ends. The motherboard is apple designed, it uses PRAM instead of bios, which is quite a bit more stable and powerful, although not as user friendly lol. The mobo provides minidvi, and firewire, which is not easily found in other laptops, the battery life is just insane compared to others, I mean common, put mac os x in battery conservation and it lasts 9 hours, what? Oh you say thats it? No, the touch pad on the mac, its like going from a 20 year old trackball mouse to a razer mamba. It is unbelievably good, and big. The magsafe adapter, is such a life savior. So why all the hate for mac's? I bought a mac, got a student discount so it came for 1200, which brought it below the sony. I'm a very happy camper. Yeah there are cheaper companies out there, but how many of them let you walk into their own store. Already thats down to sony and apple, and get service on the spot. I live with my laptop, being a computer science major in my 3rd year of college, I can't afford to send it in with a repair time of 2-5 weeks. I need service same day, on the spot. Apples service time ranges from 15 minutes to 24 hours. Thats from moment you walk into the apple store and hand them your laptop to the moment you walk out with it, all fixed and ready to go.
Stop saying APPLE SUCKS THEY GIVE YOU NO FREEDOM WHATSOEVER. Thats the other devices, not mac's. Mac os X is just a very pretty version of linux. Learn that. And stop giving people crap about it.