Thread: Should I Buy A MacBook?

Originally Posted by eric_6996

why spend more money for no reason? Stick with windows

EDIT: Get Windows, its amazing.

Originally Posted by Lewis

There are many reasons they cost more, such as the fact they don't require tweaking and fiddling with just to get them to keep running reliably.

Any OS you use is going to take some tweaking to setup how you like, so this is moot imo. I haven't had to do any tweaking to keep my PCs running reliably either, but then I don't get viruses either.

Of course for this I'll probably just get called a "Mac Fanboy" because the majority of people seem to be too immature to suggest reasons for Windows (which I can't really think of any) without insulting Apple.

My personal reasons: games, Foobar (yes I know you think iTunes is super awesome, but I don't and Cog isn't quite up to par), Dreamweaver (the Mac versions are horrible ports), BluRay player, GNS3, Packet Tracer, ActiveSync and a bunch of other apps that I don't want to stop using.

The overall build quality is far superior to that of any Windows laptop I've seen - and please, we don't need links to £10,000 titanium super laptops!

MacBook build quality is grossly exaggerated (I own one, I know). It's not terrible by any means, but IBM build quality far outshines anything Apple has done laptop wise. As a previous PowerBook owner, the MBs are definitely a step backwards. Additionally, if you Google for "Macbook poor build quality" you'll find a tons of posts complaining about cracked hinges, overheating, poor speakers, impotent video on the non-Pros et al.

Originally Posted by ephekt

Any OS you use is going to take some tweaking to setup how you like, so this is moot imo. I haven't had to do any tweaking to keep my PCs running reliably either, but then I don't get viruses either.

My personal reasons: games, Foobar (yes I know you think iTunes is super awesome, but I don't and Cog isn't quite up to par), Dreamweaver (the Mac versions are horrible ports), BluRay player, GNS3, Packet Tracer, ActiveSync and a bunch of other apps that I don't want to stop using.


MacBook build quality is grossly exaggerated (I own one, I know). It's not terrible by any means, but IBM build quality far outshines anything Apple has done laptop wise. As a previous PowerBook owner, the MBs are definitely a step backwards. Additionally, if you Google for "Macbook poor build quality" you'll find a tons of posts complaining about cracked hinges, overheating, poor speakers, impotent video on the non-Pros et al.

Windows FTW.

Originally Posted by Lewis

I'm interested as to where you got the idea i thought iTunes was "super awesome" I said it runs a hell of a lot better - by this I mean that when using iTunes on my PC, it ran like crap, and hogged a whooole lot of resources.

I was being facetious. iTunes is the ubiquitous Mac audio player, and most users tend to be quite gay for it. Relax, I wasn't calling you a fanboy; I was joking about the lack of players on Mac, and the perplexed looks I get when someone find out that I don't use it.

As for build quality I compare only to what I've used in the laptop world. My Gf's Acer is falling to pieces, keys are coming off and the screen surround is separating. Our school Dells were just flimsy as fuck and the buttons were all very fragile looking.

Acer is a budget OEM, and Dell has historically had poor build quality. If you want a valid comparison you can't just pick two of the worst PC laptop OEMs and compare them against a relatively well built MacBook. You're comparing a Lexus to a Hyundai.

As far as searching for things like that it seems a pretty stupid idea, you can search poor build quality about any laptop and find enough results, that's what search engines are for.

I only mentioned it because it highlights the real issues the various iterations of the MacBook have had. I completely disagree with these types of searches being 'stupid' for someone currently in the market for one; it's called being an intelligent, informed consumer.