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I'm in the market for a new laptop.
I’ll be using it for web, skype, email, some word and excel, movie, music pictures, back up my blackberry and sync my ipod. A lot of the work that I do now days is in the cloud so wifi is clearly important 3G not so much. I want to get something that will last and I will require some informal international support. Oh nothing bigger then 13inch.

Now during my investigation I keep coming back to the same thing. MacBook Pro. I’m a PC guy born and raised but I just don’t see any negative in paying a little more and getting a Macbook Pro. When I’m overseas it will be really easy to just walk in to any apple store if I need help.

I just can’t think of any negatives in getting a Macbook. And a PC well … I can find a config I REALLY like not to mention I would only ever get a Dell, HP or Thinkpad.

PS IF I REALLY REALLY want windows I can dual boot on the mac.
 
I'm not sure how much storage you need but I had a lot of fun when I was setting up an 11" macbook air for someone.
 
I would strongly recommend a Macbook. I personally wouldn't go for the Pro, I think the extra cash is not really warranted. The vanilla 13" Macbook is more than adequate.

One thing I always tell people interested in mac is that it just works. Out of the box, it just works. No BS. Open the lid and within 2 seconds you are working. Build quality is also superior to other laptops.

As you mentioned you could dual boot, but I seriously doubt you would want to do that after running OSX. :)
 
based on your post I gather that you are pretty clued up and would also recommend a macbook, given what you plan on using it for.
 
And if you decide to go with a PC, stick with a Dell in terms of warranty support and build quality.
 
i'm a pc guy, and went i first started working on a macbook pro, it took some getting use to. i actually believe that the less pc savvy you are, the easier you convert to mac. me knowing how everything works in windows made doing things in mac a bit of an agony. mac hardware is tops, as far as laptops go, just buy one and be happy. buying the same specs in pc is usually heavier and bulkier and more power hungry. if you do find something as sleek as the mac with the same specs, you often pay more. I just battle to be as quick on a mac as i am on a pc, mainly due to years of pc experience i think. your usage intentions seem pretty light though, so you should be fine.
 
My MBP is a blessing to work with. I do video production and create dvd menu's using the iLife suite. You can multitask and she keeps on going. Got my eye on the 27" quad core iMac.
 
All PC-born :) guys pass this temptation! But Mac is still just the same PC with another system. And SO another that all your experience become ash. Do you wanna feel like a stupid blonde? Do you want to spend hours looking for necessary program? Do you want to buy same HW sh*t at double price? Do you want to wait years while "Mr. Apple" will throw you piece of "progress"? Do you want to feel mouth water when your friends play games unavailable to you? Do you want to fix your hardware monthes, because it "specially for Mac"? Whoa! In this case MAC IS FOR YOU! :))))))
 
dotVIBE said:
i'm a pc guy, and went i first started working on a macbook pro, it took some getting use to. i actually believe that the less pc savvy you are, the easier you convert to mac. me knowing how everything works in windows made doing things in mac a bit of an agony. mac hardware is tops, as far as laptops go, just buy one and be happy. buying the same specs in pc is usually heavier and bulkier and more power hungry. if you do find something as sleek as the mac with the same specs, you often pay more. I just battle to be as quick on a mac as i am on a pc, mainly due to years of pc experience i think. your usage intentions seem pretty light though, so you should be fine.
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So are you saying, the more you know, the harder it is for you to learn?
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Or the more intelligent you are, the harder it is for you to figure a simple thing out?

I like your logic. Lol if you can't figure mac out, you should really consider what you have been doing the last several years.

I love my macbook.

The size, multi-touch touchpad, keyboard, screen and battery (get 7 hours sometimes) are brilliant.

It is ideal for photo's, as it comes with iPhoto by default.

For the office applications, you would have to buy iWork or Microsoft Office mac. And you can run any windows app in a parallels desktop 6 windows installation, without having to reboot... my win7 in parallels gets the same WEI score as when dual booted, excluding the graphics which are weaker.
 
Vincent_Thorn said:
All PC-born :) guys pass this temptation! But Mac is still just the same PC with another system. And SO another that all your experience become ash. Do you wanna feel like a stupid blonde? Do you want to spend hours looking for necessary program? Do you want to buy same HW sh*t at double price? Do you want to wait years while "Mr. Apple" will throw you piece of "progress"? Do you want to feel mouth water when your friends play games unavailable to you? Do you want to fix your hardware monthes, because it "specially for Mac"? Whoa! In this case MAC IS FOR YOU! :))))))
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I think this is my post of the day... I'm not sure what the hell is going on in it, but I'm adding "PC-born" to my set as a piece of progress before my experience become ash... Just as soon as I fix my hardware monthes.

Seriously 'tho, and IMO, my switch to Mac was one of the best computing decisions I have ever made. My MBP 13" was another. howcoza, It does sound like you have basically made the decision to switch already and I'd be prepared to bet you won't regret it.
 
MacBook Air is perfect for you. would suggest you go check out both the 13 and the 11 inch models. Get the 128 gig SSD and ask for 4 gigs ram.
 
xera said:
So are you saying, the more you know, the harder it is for you to learn?
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Or the more intelligent you are, the harder it is for you to figure a simple thing out?

I like your logic. Lol if you can't figure mac out, you should really consider what you have been doing the last several years.
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I believe you misunderstand what I'm trying to say. the Mac interface is relatively intuitive, and for starter users pretty easy to understand and figure out. more so than windows in my opinion. On the other hand, when someone like me try to change the ports the smtp server needs to use to send mail for example, it's pretty frustrating. I can do it in 2 seconds on a pc, on the mac it took me a few minutes to figure it out. how about opening a jpg directly into photoshop? on windows i rightclick and click <open in photoshop>. do you have any idea how long it took me to figure out a way to do that on the mac? clicking <file> - <open> and then browsing to each and every file aint no kinda fun when you work with lots of files.

small things like that. they add up. it's frustrating. i'm sure one gets the hang of it after a while, but simple things like plugging in a ntfs formatted drive and the mac not picking it up gets to you at first. that's why i say, if you are very used to working with a pc, the changeover might be tough, but the hardware probably makes it worth it.
 
dotVIBE said:
I believe you misunderstand what I'm trying to say. the Mac interface is relatively intuitive, and for starter users pretty easy to understand and figure out. more so than windows in my opinion. On the other hand, when someone like me try to change the ports the smtp server needs to use to send mail for example, it's pretty frustrating. I can do it in 2 seconds on a pc, on the mac it took me a few minutes to figure it out. how about opening a jpg directly into photoshop? on windows i rightclick and click <open in photoshop>. do you have any idea how long it took me to figure out a way to do that on the mac? clicking <file> - <open> and then browsing to each and every file aint no kinda fun when you work with lots of files.

small things like that. they add up. it's frustrating. i'm sure one gets the hang of it after a while, but simple things like plugging in a ntfs formatted drive and the mac not picking it up gets to you at first. that's why i say, if you are very used to working with a pc, the changeover might be tough, but the hardware probably makes it worth it.
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I hear what you saying. Changing things like file associations is quite easy though once you know how. I think once you realize it's a completely different OS, then it could make things much easier (of course you still have to learn). But its like switching between an automatic and manual car. You have to change your mindset. But with practice it becomes natural, or the change happens subconsciously.
 
Agree with dotvibe. I for instance find working with office frustrating as not all the keyboard shortcuts are the same as the windows equivalents. And given I still use windows office at work it remains a problem.
 
tell me about it, copy paste, & undo etc shortcuts should be universal!!
 
How about the F2 function to edit a cell in the windows version. Still don't know what the mac equivalent is.
 
dotVIBE said:
tell me about it, copy paste, & undo etc shortcuts should be universal!!
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One of the things I like about orifice and other Linux apps is that they have recognized there is no point in changing some things which people are likely familiar with
 
Keystrokes... It may take a while but once you get the hang of keystrokes on a Mac you're set...

You're looking for copy, paste and undo, all I think is command+c, command+ v and command+z... I know its been a while but I have to really think about what I'm doing when I'm on a PC now. Funny how that goes...

EDIT: Just had a look and that's pretty much the same for PC 'cept its control+c, control+v and control+z... Looks like I forgot that too.
 
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As a veteran Windows user it took me about six months to get fully comfortable with OSX but now it's like a fluent second language and I can say I'm really glad I took the plunge.
 
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