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~REALiTY

~REALiTY

~REALiTY

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Hi Guys,

I built the spec of my PC below quite a few months back and i have found that i dont play any games anymore more things going on in life, going out etc and just no time.

I am considering selling my PC and buying myself a PS3 which will play all my blu rays and allow me to game when i can :) but with the money left over i will put that towards a MBP 13" but i cant seem to get out of the PC way of thinking and looking at the specs/resolution it runs and think its far to much money for something so trivial :S compared to the spec in my sig which costs me around the same or less.

Anyone try and convince me otherwise? :)
 
Im kind of in the same boat. I never said Id use Mac, but now it just seems to make sense.
I used to game a lot but now I rarely have time to, even on my PS3. All I do is surf, use Lightroom and Office, and I want all that in something functional and lightweight. Makes perfect sense to me....plus you can still use Windows :D
 
INdeed! thats exactly where i am, i video/photo edit but im thinking like a PC haha! i cant think of spending £1000 for the hardware that is in the laptop i might just be being silly!
 
I wasn't brave enough to buy a new mac but picked up a used Macbook Pro this week from MM.
Have been using it all of today and am already won over. I spend nearly 90% of the time on my rig listening to music, watching youtube and sitting on these forums, also must confess to never having overclocked the current CPU & GPU... :eek: It's an utter waste, even when I do play games it's mostly Minecraft. :|

I'd given my sister an old G4 with Tiger last year and was impressed with it, everything seemed fairly easy and it's been extremely reliable so far. I'm pretty convinced I'll be ditching the gaming rig and running with this from now on, the 360 can pick up any gaming needs.
This thing isn't nearly as powerful as my PC but it's fast enough, how often do you use the full power of your current rig?

Some things seem complicated with the OS change but Google is always there with the answer.
 
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INdeed! thats exactly where i am, i video/photo edit but im thinking like a PC haha! i cant think of spending £1000 for the hardware that is in the laptop i might just be being silly!
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Lol... Its exactly the same place where a lot of people are. I used to love games, but nowadays with full time job (55 hrs a week) and career, wife, two kids, DIY and garden, studying for OU, like where the heck do yet get time to spend hours playing games ! ???

That's why I moved to macbook 13 two years ago. Still have the "main" PC - in my sig - but rarely use it other than as a dual boot server and for the odd moment here and there of Flight Sim when Mrs watching Eastenders and kids in bed. But could do without it easily.

Mac is just great - you will never look back. In fact I am thinking of buying a MBP Pro 15 and also a iMac when they are refreshed. So much smoother computing experience than PC's. Much less frustrating and less hourglass-ing and kludging up after two months.

It's a revelation IMO....
 
Lets face it guys although the specs you are stating cost you the same as the laptop and they are obviously better.... it would cost you a great deal more to have those specs in a laptop.

Saying that though you do pay more for apple products and get less for you money in terms of spec HOWEVER you get a great deal more in build quality, OS, etc...
 
If you want maximum bang per buck - and that's not necessarily a bad thing to want - then you're not going to get it with a Mac. The bottom line is if you want one you just have to grit your teeth and accept that the equivalent PC at the same price is going to blow it away. I've given up on Mac desktops because there's just no value there for me. If you need something portable though the MBPs are great, but if it's just going to be sat on the desk with you wishing you had something more powerful then you might as well get another PC and keep the change.
 
Well tbh, im getting a PS3 to run my Blu Rays and my gaming needs, so if i get opne it will be used to surf the net edit and go onthese forums, i want something that just works :)
 
Iv a fairly powerful desktop PC but yet I still spend much more time using my 11" macbook air. The macbook pros and airs are great machines if you after portability and top build quality.
 
Had both a mac mini and a macbook at one time. The mini blew the gpu just out of warranty, the macbook I sold on here around christmas. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about to be honest. Gone back to solely using Windows and occasionally Ubuntu.

This 'never go back' nonsense is just marketing ********.
 
joey1211 said:
Had both a mac mini and a macbook at one time. The mini blew the gpu just out of warranty, the macbook I sold on here around christmas. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about to be honest. Gone back to solely using Windows and occasionally Ubuntu.

This 'never go back' nonsense is just marketing ********.
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The first time I've ever seen that kind of quote in 3 years of Mac ownage/usage.

First time for everything, I suppose.
 
theheyes said:
If you want maximum bang per buck - and that's not necessarily a bad thing to want - then you're not going to get it with a Mac. The bottom line is if you want one you just have to grit your teeth and accept that the equivalent PC at the same price is going to blow it away. I've given up on Mac desktops because there's just no value there for me. If you need something portable though the MBPs are great, but if it's just going to be sat on the desk with you wishing you had something more powerful then you might as well get another PC and keep the change.
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I agree with that. If I was going for a desktop I would spend under 1k and get something pretty decent as well as a nice 24" monitor, but I cant find any laptops with the build quality, power and portability that the MBP offers.
 
It's worth buying just for the warranty alone tbh. I'm just trying to get someone's Toshiba laptop replaced on warranty, and fair enough for the price I could buy a new replacement for less than one Mac, but it's genuinely an absolute nightmare. If this was my MBP I'd have wondered into a Mac store by now and likely got a new one on replacement!
 
Adrianr said:
It's worth buying just for the warranty alone tbh. I'm just trying to get someone's Toshiba laptop replaced on warranty, and fair enough for the price I could buy a new replacement for less than one Mac, but it's genuinely an absolute nightmare. If this was my MBP I'd have wondered into a Mac store by now and likely got a new one on replacement!
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read past posts on here and you will see how its not always so easy with apple. especially when your not paying extra for the care/phone support. and on the other hand dell came to my house and fitted a new motherboard while i waited...

im in the gang of not really caring what OS i use , both OSX and windows7 are very alike each other and both are great to use. the only reason i use one or another is because of certain programs i need only running on one

the macbooks are very nice hardware but then so are the top end sony's/dells/lenovos etc. its a hard choice to make
 
"andy" said:
read past posts on here and you will see how its not always so easy with apple. especially when your not paying extra for the care/phone support. and on the other hand dell came to my house and fitted a new motherboard while i waited...

im in the gang of not really caring what OS i use , both OSX and windows7 are very alike each other and both are great to use. the only reason i use one or another is because of certain programs i need only running on one

the macbooks are very nice hardware but then so are the top end sony's/dells/lenovos etc. its a hard choice to make
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Ah that's a shame. Any problems I or any friends have had have usually been met with either a new replacement (Missus must have had about 4 new iPhones from them for things I'd normally just put up with), or a pretty speedy repair service. I have heard Dells warranty is very good though, shame they don't make anything I wan't to buy!

Regarding the OP It's obviously hard to say if you'll find what you're looking for with a PS3 and a Mac, just don't think because you don't use it for gaming that it's not also better at everything else. I still have a custom desktop box because when all is said and done, it's still better than anything I can get from Apple for less than about 2.5K, and I've had it for nearly 3 years! But I use Apple laptops because I think they make better laptops. You don't have to 'belong' to one or the other :)
 
I bought a macbook pro (core i5) in September 2010, I upgraded it myself with a 80GB intel SSD. Its a really good machine, its rubbish for gaming, but for work it was absolutely fantastic.

However, I realised there wasn't much I could do on OSX that I couldnt do on windows, plus I could dabble in some gaming when I had the chance on my main windows machine. I gave my Macbook Pro to my brother and have now switched back to my windows 7 machine.
 
~REALiTY said:
Hi Guys,

I built the spec of my PC below quite a few months back and i have found that i dont play any games anymore more things going on in life, going out etc and just no time.

I am considering selling my PC and buying myself a PS3 which will play all my blu rays and allow me to game when i can :) but with the money left over i will put that towards a MBP 13" but i cant seem to get out of the PC way of thinking and looking at the specs/resolution it runs and think its far to much money for something so trivial :S compared to the spec in my sig which costs me around the same or less.

Anyone try and convince me otherwise? :)
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Same story here... as ive gotolder ive realised that all I now want to do with a machine is photo/video editing, HD movie watching, browsing, and some very light (usually RTS) gaming.

The new Macbook Pro 15" looks awesome with the SB i7 2.2ghz, ATI 6750m, sexy unibody shell and 7hr battery life. WHile it is undoubtedly pricey, it's also a machine that will do all of the above tasks with ease for a few years to come... the SB CPU is way more powerful than my current desktop, and the 6750, while it may show its age in a year or two, is no real slouch either http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6750M.43958.0.html

I'm trying to find reasons to get a cheaper Windows 7 laptop with a beefy GPU but none come to mind... the Windows laptop would be bigger, heavier, louder, and have a 2 hour battery life.

The Mac just seems to make sense and ticks my boxes.
 
I went from self build Pc to an iMac, then have gone back to a self build Pc.

Their was somethign I couldnt just get on with in the OSX way of things..im not sure what it was, tho I think it was deffo jsut me being used to a Windows enviroment, both have their failures and shortcummings, but deffo each have their strengths...I like both OSX and Win7, id happily use either now.
 
I have a quad core PC with 8gb RAM and a mid range graphics card hooked up to a 30" TFT. I also have a mid 2009 MBP 13 with 2gb RAM. I don't game much now and recently my PC's hard drive failed. I haven't bothered ordering a new drive yet and for the last few weeks I've been using my MBP as my main machine hooked up to my 30" TFT, with an external keyboard and mouse.

Yes it's marginally slower (especially some sites that use flash). But for most things I've really not noticed a difference. And it's silent. Completely and utterly silent. It's a joy to use.

I'll probably go back to my main machine when I can be bothered to order a new HDD. But for something designed to be a laptop, with only a 2.16ghz (I think) dual core CPU and 2gb RAM I'm amazed how well this thing is coping as a main machine running a 2560x1200 resolution. I love it.
 
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