if you don't have a MacBook Pro, why are you still alive?

go away troll. stay in your mother's basement and pleasure yourself with your macbook air and leave us alone

Precalculus wrote:

Seriously if you're too broke to buy a good computer you should just /yourself already.

You do mean aside from the fact you can get a computer that is just as good without the 'Apple Tax' that doubles the price?

I don't have a mac because I am heterosexual.

I don't drive a Prius, I don't wear Vibram's and I don't have a Mac.

(this witty comeback made on a laptop)

I put Linux on my computer, so I pretty much got a Mac for free.

you mean the one that your parents helped you pay for?

I used to hate on Mac too, until I started using my wife's MacBook Pro. Then I decided to get one with a bonus check from work, and now it's really the only computer I use at home. The hardware is what really makes it. The battery does last 8 hours, the multitouch pad is really nice, the unibody construction makes it feel solid and "quality", and it just looks good. It also gets a big plus for the lit keyboard.

I do not wear vibrams or drive a hybrid by the way.

gazoo wrote:

I put Linux on my computer, so I pretty much got a Mac for free.

Bingo!

Ubuntu 10.04 here (Linux) and love it. There is a bigger learning curve than with a mac, but not much and I can run an old laptop like it's a brand new machine. It actually runs a little quicker than my buddy's newer macbook pro. I love the Ubuntu software center, tons of free software. It has it's drawbacks (you need to have a little computer geekness in you at times) but you can't be the price (FREE!) I installed it on my parents laptop (they aren't the most computer savvy) and they haven't had too many problems navigating around.

Precalculus wrote:

Seriously if you're too broke to buy a good computer you should just /yourself already.

We are here to make fun of pretentious douches like yourself. Thank you for helping us out of the doldrums of Saturday boredom.

I think very few people question the quality of Apple's products anymore, but I think you have to have a lot of disposable income to not question whether the performance advantages over relatively spec'd PCs make Apple products a wise purchase. They are cool, but I'd rather take a 4 day trip to another part of the country.

I have a Dell Latitude. 8 hour battery life and build solid. And it doesn't have the price of a Mac. It is 3.5 years old now and still running strong. For viruses and spyware, I use free stuff like Avast.

I could have paid a little extra and gotten a Lenova, with even better build quality and a lit keyboard, and it would still be less than a Mac.

Nothing against Macs, but if you want to pay more for style and the cool factor, that's an individual decision.

The cost of a MacBook is not the OS. So who cares that Ubuntu is free.

TMoney wrote:

Ubuntu 10.04 here (Linux) and love it. There is a bigger learning curve than with a mac, but not much and I can run an old laptop like it's a brand new machine. It actually runs a little quicker than my buddy's newer macbook pro. I love the Ubuntu software center, tons of free software. It has it's drawbacks (you need to have a little computer geekness in you at times) but you can't be the price (FREE!) I installed it on my parents laptop (they aren't the most computer savvy) and they haven't had too many problems navigating around.

Well for my parents the cost of a new laptop was FREE since I installed Ubuntu on a 4 year old machine and it performs WELL. Like I said, I have a friend with a new macbook, and it;s nice, but if you are surfing the net, using word, watching some video here and there, and email like most users, Why spend 1000+ bucks?

I love that people are willing to drop an extra grand on Macs which they then use to edit documents and check facebook.

Precalculus wrote:

If you don't have a MacBook Pro, why are you still alive? Seriously if you're too broke to buy a good computer you should just /yourself already.

It sounds like everyone else has chimed in with replies that are similar to what I would have said, so I will simply say "cheers"...

I'm a PC wrote: I don't have a mac because I am heterosexual.

You don't have a Mac because you don't have money. Your could be a white male, hetero, and poor. You either live, in your mom's basement, in a Trailer Park, or not alone.

Computer Guru wrote:

It sounds like everyone else has chimed in with replies that are similar to what I would have said, so I will simply say "cheers"...

You are not in a majority, Guru. You love of PCs, and hatred of Macs has been noted on this forum. You are not an objective observe. You are happy with what you have as a computer setup. You are very unhappy with anyone who doesn't see it your way.