I bought a mac because . . .

the laptop is the best value in the thin and light category

I'm sure I could've save a couple of hundred had I gone with a different company, but the macbook was thinner with better features packed in (blue tooth, HDD space, dvi output, etc.)

on top of all that, I can use boot camp to use XP (I've been enjoying Mac OS X so much that I haven't bothered yet)

that's all I have to say

oh, and great resell value never hurts

maybe I'll sell this baby when that new MB with LED + Santa Rosa comes out (what's it looking like, November?)

I wouldn't mind getting more battery life out of this little thing

Umm, if you're just going to Boot Camp Windows all the time, why get a Mac? .......................

Just try using OS X all the time, you never know, you might end up "forgetting" to install Windows

Umm, if you're just going to Boot Camp Windows all the time, why get a Mac? .......................

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i agree when i get my MB i would never think of installing windows

why would you need to?

there is a mac equivelant for practically every windows programme or a mac version

i agree with smurfy you might "forget" to install windows

-Jack said:

i agree when i get my MB i would never think of installing windows

why would you need to?

there is a mac equivelant for practically every windows programme or a mac version

i agree with smurfy you might "forget" to install windows

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it's been nearly two weeks and I haven't had a reason yet

I can only think of a few so far:

-Mototrola cell phone applications. I'm not talking about consumer level media programs, but programming apps needed to make changes and such on my phone

-CPS3 emulation, hasn't happened for Macs yet. It's very new for the PC side of things and Mame is horrible at running it as of now

-iPod updates, I decided to restore my iPod to FAT32 after I found out that PCs won't recognize the Macintosh format. This is important because it's useful to be able to transfer big files from one comp to the next. Unfortunately, I can't update it now through my MB on OS X.

otherwise, I don't really have much of a reason. Everything else is better in every which way. It's less cluttered and does what it's supposed to (no more visits to the Windows registry for me).

no more visits to the Windows registry for me

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glad to hear it

I felt like it.

It was time to replace my older laptop and I was sick of viruses, spyware and security updates.

I was also mainly tired of the daily upkeep of a Windows PC. It seemed like every time I logged on, I had a virus definition update.

Now I have an awesome laptop with bluetooth and everything, and it can even handle the few games I throw at it. I love it and I haven't felt the need to install Windows on my MBP. Just go a couple of weeks without and you won't know why you ever used it!

I bought my MacBook 15 months or so ago because I was tired of having to call MS to activate Windows every time I re-installed it.

I bought my Mac Pro because I wanted something more powerful and I loved my MacBook so much. I run Windows in a VMWare Fusion VM. I'd be Windows-free if it weren't for the fact that I need it for my work and MS Money.

I finally bought a macbook, because since i have a windows vista pc i have totally lost faith in windows.
vista is so full of bugs... open file dialogues don't refresh... argh!!! its so annoying.
before vista i never had a problem, well, a real problem, with windows.. but vista is awful, and now i'm a mac person. (and linux of course hehe).
lilbird.

bubba said:

I'd be Windows-free if it weren't for you meddling kids!

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I fixed your post