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MOBILEPOLICE
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Hi i will be buying a new laptop for christmas but i am torn between a macbook and a ordinary plain windows laptop.Not sure which one to buy any suggestions or help?
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vladn02
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laptop
laptop
more versatile towards gaming and performance.
macbooks are really specific to the use of it... internet and image editing lol no gaming, barely and software support,
aside from macware ( use for 21 days then you have to buy it )
mac is crap imo, but obviously everyone has theirs.
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MOBILEPOLICE
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thanks for your reply.many people have recommended me that i buy a macbook the software is more stable and less likely to crash than a windows machine and is also less likely to get any virus attacks.i also prefer the look of macbooks compared to windows laptops. |
Cycovision
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Depends on what you want to do with it 
If you're only ever going to use it for surfing, email, music, movies and photography (like a lot of PC users do) then a mac would be your best bet. I'm not saying that macs CAN'T do anything else, of course they can. But that's what they are set up for out-of-the-box.
The security issues with PCs are widely exaggerated these days. The major threat nowadays is phishing scams, which all computer users are susceptible to regardless of the operating system they run. A fully updated PC with an antivirus and firewall application is perfectly safe providing you use it sensibly.
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paul101
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@cyco aren't macbooks more expensive? | || | windows laptop is your best option imo
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Red_Rach
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Macbooks are brilliant, and its easy to run windows software on them, plus you can install windows on them. But Laptops are much cheaper.
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Cycovision
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@paul
No, not in real terms. They cost about the same as a good quality mid-spec PC laptop.
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suhlman
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whatever you do: use linux...mainly for the distros' funny names but also faster etc...
do not buy vista...too much stillllllllllllllll doesn't work right with vista imho |
gregface
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if you get a macbook with 2 gigs RAM you should consider using virtual machines of windows and linux, this means you can have all your operating systems on one machine, and they link with one another superbly, infact you can have windows windows in OSX.
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shyam335
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You can have mac in a laptop as well 
I see no point in spending extra on a macbook.. |
haynesycop
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I think the question is why are you even considering a PC? a Mac is clearly the way you want to go!
I use an iMac and it rocks!
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paul101
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On 2007-11-29 18:34:35, gregface wrote:
if you get a macbook with 2 gigs RAM you should consider using virtual machines of windows and linux, this means you can have all your operating systems on one machine, and they link with one another superbly, infact you can have windows windows in OSX.
why not dual boot your macbook with vista?
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NightBlade
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On 2007-11-29 15:38:42, MOBILEPOLICE wrote:
thanks for your reply.many people have recommended me that i buy a macbook the software is more stable and less likely to crash than a windows machine.
That, my friend, isn't so true anymore.
[ This Message was edited by: NightBlade on 2007-11-29 19:26 ] |
arien617
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I know I'd go for Mac over Windows...
(Crosses fingers for iMac )
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WelshTom
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Macbook any day. Stable system, great software, works out of the box & boot camp - so you can still run XP or vista just as well as on any other machine (including gaming - which people constantly slag apple machines off for!). I moved to apple a year ago for personal use but still use windows everyday at work and to be honest there is no competition - given the choice I would use apple 100% of the time.
Any questions just ask.
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