[citation][nom]WarraWarra[/nom]LOL my old man 70+ years old has a Asus laptop with same cpu , ati 5870 and 2 500gb hd's + blu ray costing $1200 and you have a Apple MBP with nothing for $2500 ????Who is the fool now ?Dude this is $466 Atom not $2500 for a mobile i7 Intel cpu. What do you expect.This just proves Apple can build their $200.00 Mac Book Pro's for decent prices and then still charge $2300.00 for the glory of running Apple OSX bloatware that is not backwards compatible + Apple logo on that same Mac Book Pro.Sry I used to be a Apple fan back when Apple was tech leader with performance parts that looked like something nice.IE: The last Apple laptops that was build G4 Powerbooks that knocked my desktop socks off.So sorry that you are stuck with a 17" PDA i7 2.66ghz that you over payed for just to experience how broken Apple can be.Apple where is the nice decent Apple's you used to build like bondi blue or the cube or something with style and flair something that says Apple not the current pothead making crack in his bath tub at home in California Current Apple weak hardware you are selling now.Come on Apple stop being such lame ars* cowards and start building Apple again.[/citation]
You my friend are out of your mind.lol The G4 was slow as hell. AMD and Intel have been smoking those IBM chips for a long time. I had a G4 powerbook and while it ran fine, it ran fine because the OS was optimized for it and not because it was a smoking chip from a processing capacity standpoint. Can you buy a laptop with simular specs for less....sure, can I buy brand x fruit loops in a bag instead of in a box. Yep, taste the same. That is not the point. If you look at the reliability figures, if you look at the industrial engineering, if you look at the customer service, on top of the specs that is where the additional costs are. Some people can justify it, others can. The only other laptop brand out there that is on the level on those other things is the Lenovo Thinkpad. Built like a tank, lasts damn near forever and great support and service. I have used Toshiba, Dell, HP, Compaq (before they where bought), Sony, AST (I used to work for them auditing the laptops), and non of them come close to Thinkpad or MacBook Pro. Period... Spec for Spec Thinkpad and MBP are price very simular with Apple having more options so they can go higher in price (like 512gb SSD for example).
I will go down the line on the issues:
HP - Motherboard failure after motherboard failure. We would even get replacement motherboards in from the manufacturer that where DOA.
Sony - Not a professional laptop - Absolutely loaded with useless media apps that slow the entire system down. Was not to bad when I blew it away and loaded fresh but their customer service leaves allot to be desired.
Compaq - Oh the memory of a screen that would go black on you and the only way to get it back was to hold the corners and twist it. No lie.
Toshiba - Satellite was fairly solid actually. Buttons popped off though.
Dell - Failed DVDRW, Failed MB, Failed Harddrive, Buttons popped out. Customer service was good though and actually gave me a brand new laptop of my choosing so that was cool
AST - Depended on the laptop, one was decent but was a brick and the other failed so much I actually had to stop the production line .
Never had a issue with Thinkpad or my MBP. Not one and I beat the crap out of my systems for work and play. They are both built like tanks and have a motion sensor in them to detect a fall and immediately turn off the harddrive. My dog knocked my Macbook Pro off the couch and jammed my Verizon data card into the laptop destroying the assembly and knocking out all ports on that side of the laptop. Damn thing still worked like a champ. Took it into Apple Store and the ordered a new motherboard and had the laptop back to me by noon the next morning before I had to catch a flight.
Bottom line, you get what you pay for. Spec's don't tell the whole story.
kinda overlooked the most simple mention on that page...and that was "china" hahaa.....thx for pointing it out....
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