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Why Choose A Mac Over Any Other Notebook Brand?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 354248" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>I am a PC guy. Had never had a laptop before, primarily due to being a hardcore gamer and just unwilling to pay the extra $1000-2000 more for a notebook than a desktop that would play any game I might want to put on it.</p><p></p><p>My decision to buy a Mac was only marginally based on the OS (like maybe 5%). It was almost purely a hardware decision. For me the first thing to spend your money on is the fastest processor you can afford. Over the years I've been buying computers, I've found that the slower the processor, the shorter the quality of your computing experience on a given machine and therefore the life expectancy. 2nd is video card and 3rd is RAM.</p><p></p><p>At all the price points, Apple just flat out puts higher end processors in their machines than any other off the shelf manufacturer. I have yet to find being able to go into a local store and find a PC with a 2.0 Core2Duo at the $1250 price point. They all seem to short the user on what is to me the key component and put in larger hard drives, more Ram or better video memory nowadays. They can get away with this easier today because of the numbering system Intel is using which gives the end user no idea of how fast the CPU is unless they've done their homework first. And with the slower CPU, they <strong>will</strong> have their customers buying new machines sooner rather than later to run that new piece of software they just must have.</p><p></p><p>And one other thing to note with video cards, if the specific model of card is not listed, it is almost invariably the Intel 950. No matter how much VRam they give you with this chipset, many of the 3D games are just not going to run on it.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Just noticed have had mine for 3 months today, no regrets, and for me this says a lot. Signed up here same day I brought mine home. My few disappointments I believe I would have had with any notebook. And OS X makes up for some of these just because I don't have to be running a virus scanner, don't have to keep Spybot's TeaTimer running full time, don't have to do a full scan once a week with Spybot and AdAware, don't have to worry about defragging the drive, have not noticed a slow down (could not say this 3 months into a fresh install of any version of windows without my continual tweaking, ahh tweaking, this really is one thing I miss about not having windows on here, I could always find something new to tweak in windows to help give it a boost, just not much tweaking available with OS X, but then I guess that means I get to actually use it instead)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 354248, member: 24160"] I am a PC guy. Had never had a laptop before, primarily due to being a hardcore gamer and just unwilling to pay the extra $1000-2000 more for a notebook than a desktop that would play any game I might want to put on it. My decision to buy a Mac was only marginally based on the OS (like maybe 5%). It was almost purely a hardware decision. For me the first thing to spend your money on is the fastest processor you can afford. Over the years I've been buying computers, I've found that the slower the processor, the shorter the quality of your computing experience on a given machine and therefore the life expectancy. 2nd is video card and 3rd is RAM. At all the price points, Apple just flat out puts higher end processors in their machines than any other off the shelf manufacturer. I have yet to find being able to go into a local store and find a PC with a 2.0 Core2Duo at the $1250 price point. They all seem to short the user on what is to me the key component and put in larger hard drives, more Ram or better video memory nowadays. They can get away with this easier today because of the numbering system Intel is using which gives the end user no idea of how fast the CPU is unless they've done their homework first. And with the slower CPU, they [B]will[/B] have their customers buying new machines sooner rather than later to run that new piece of software they just must have. And one other thing to note with video cards, if the specific model of card is not listed, it is almost invariably the Intel 950. No matter how much VRam they give you with this chipset, many of the 3D games are just not going to run on it. Edit: Just noticed have had mine for 3 months today, no regrets, and for me this says a lot. Signed up here same day I brought mine home. My few disappointments I believe I would have had with any notebook. And OS X makes up for some of these just because I don't have to be running a virus scanner, don't have to keep Spybot's TeaTimer running full time, don't have to do a full scan once a week with Spybot and AdAware, don't have to worry about defragging the drive, have not noticed a slow down (could not say this 3 months into a fresh install of any version of windows without my continual tweaking, ahh tweaking, this really is one thing I miss about not having windows on here, I could always find something new to tweak in windows to help give it a boost, just not much tweaking available with OS X, but then I guess that means I get to actually use it instead) [/QUOTE]
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