I was thinking about taking the plung of going over to a Macbook Pro. I am a long time non-mac user who has heard all the good things about MACs. I have an older dell laptop which I am trying to sell and a fairly new dell desktop which I may make into a family machine. I am looking to move out to my own place and debatting weather I should take the plunge and go for a laptop...and if so should I go the MAC route.
A few drawbacks come to my mind.
1.) I heard the Macbooks overheat a lot, even when they are new. My old dell 600m laptop did that after the first two years. It was fairly good up till that point, no over heating or what not.
2.) I hear that you can run windows OS on Macs. If this is the case, why shouldn't I just go and buy a less expensive PC notebook for 2/3 the cost in some cases.
3.) That leads to the final point the $$$. Macbooks are generally expensive, me looking at the $2000 model. Is it really worth spending that kind of money on which I wrote earlier you can buy same thing for 2/3 the price?
Overall I like Mac, more so the look of it. I know from others who use it, it is much more stable than PC based notebooks. But over all value are we paying just the premium for having that big glowing half eaten apple on the case? Either way I am in no rush...paying my new up and coming rent payments is more important than a laptop. Thanks for any advice.
A few drawbacks come to my mind.
1.) I heard the Macbooks overheat a lot, even when they are new. My old dell 600m laptop did that after the first two years. It was fairly good up till that point, no over heating or what not.
2.) I hear that you can run windows OS on Macs. If this is the case, why shouldn't I just go and buy a less expensive PC notebook for 2/3 the cost in some cases.
3.) That leads to the final point the $$$. Macbooks are generally expensive, me looking at the $2000 model. Is it really worth spending that kind of money on which I wrote earlier you can buy same thing for 2/3 the price?
Overall I like Mac, more so the look of it. I know from others who use it, it is much more stable than PC based notebooks. But over all value are we paying just the premium for having that big glowing half eaten apple on the case? Either way I am in no rush...paying my new up and coming rent payments is more important than a laptop. Thanks for any advice.