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AlunJ |
posted on 17th Mar 09 at 16:23 |
quote: only downside is I couldn't find anywhere on the website where they said they would send somebody for it, so i've had to take it in myself, I may kick up a fuss and see if they will refund train fare. | |
John |
posted on 17th Mar 09 at 16:21 |
Do you have to take it back or will they send somebody out as well? | |
AlunJ |
posted on 17th Mar 09 at 16:19 |
I did love my macbook.... love the operating system and its a rather nice looking piece of kit but I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with it, had to return it to the apple store for a new hard drive, having had it a week the same thing has happened again so I've got to trapze back over to bristol again :( considering i've only had it a few months i'm a little annoyed - but I will say the customer service is 2nd to none | |
Cosmo |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 17:30 |
Have had a PowerPC (not that Intel shite) iMac for a while now, took me a few months to really get used to the operating system over windows, but now I have I wouldnt go back. | |
Butler |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 17:27 |
I love my macbook, as a system itself its always been second to none. I have however cracked the fascia a few times due to a flaw in the old style macbook, and my battery has died which I have yet to replace. | |
Sam |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 17:00 |
I have an old G4 as my workhorse machine, it will never win any performance competitions (1Gb RAM, G4 400MHz CPU) but for work purposes it's excellent and does things quicker than my 2Gb Vista laptop! | |
Balling |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 09:01 |
quote: :lol: People have been saying that for the last 5 years (probably even longer) and I'm still to see evidence supporting this theory. You'd think the virus' would start to slowly build up, but to this day there's not one virus capable of infecting OS X on its own! There is, ofcourse, mallware, but you still have to install this your self and give it access to your system. As for reliability, I run Adobe Creative Suite on a windows machine at work and on a MacBook Pro at home. Spec of the Mac is slightly worse than that of the PC and experience a VAST improvement in speed and endurance when I work on the laptop. Firewire? I've never once used it and tbh hardly any external hardware supports it. | |
dannymccann |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 07:21 |
quote: You see I dont understand this? I have had Windows for as long as I can remember. It very rarely ever ever crashes (to put a number on it 5 times a year I have to use the reset button), this is XP and Vista. Virus infections, again, I get about 1 or 2 a year, and have had no data lost or stolen as a result. I do visit some, somewhat, dodgy sites where there is potential for all sorts of shit, but nothing ever happens, so I dont know why some people suffer so badly from it, its more people's stupidity than vulnerable software, IMO :) | |
jacko198 |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 01:14 |
If it was for music and internet, the mac would have been ideal! I love the remote control with mine, so i can watch dvd's and scroll through music off itunes etc lying on my bed with it on my desk :p quote: Missed out on one major thing about the newer models - No firewire. Which is a serious drawback. Apple realized the huge price difference between the top spec macbook, and the macbook pro, and noticed people wernt seeing the point of the macbook pro. So they bloody took firewire off it, to get more macbook pro sales! :mad: | |
Matt H |
posted on 16th Mar 09 at 00:21 |
Ahh balls to it I've bought a normal lappa now :lol: | |
jamied |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 21:25 |
my dad has the 24" imac, its ok for internet and itunes etc but apart from that I cant see anything special | |
ed |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 21:23 |
quote:There's not much Unix left in OSX these days, and the software isn't really what's inside them. The comment was in relation to the hardware. | |
Andrew |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 20:57 |
Mac's are now becoming affordable in camparionship with a Windows PC. | |
Balling |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 20:34 |
Black MacBook is an old model and not beeing made anymore. I would recommend buying an aluminium unibody MacBook. Much more value for money and newer hardware. | |
dannymccann |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 20:19 |
Not very good for playing games on I am led to believe, but then really, what laptop is? If I had the money to spare I would probably try one but I wouldnt swap my XP/Vista desktop for anything from Apple :) | |
ed |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 18:37 |
They're fine if you're doing general web browsing and word processing. This who 'it just works' stuff is a load of bollocks when you get to doing real things like large image editing and video editing. They do fuck up and crash like any other PC. | |
Matt H |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 18:26 |
What exactly is better though? | |
jacko198 |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 18:25 |
IMO yes. I have had countless pc's and laptops. Got a macbook with my course last year, and i have got to say, im not looking back! | |
Joe |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 17:24 |
In my opinion yes its worth the extra. | |
Matt H |
posted on 15th Mar 09 at 17:17 |
Looking at a new laptop, have been for ages. Mine is fooked! |