Mac Laptop / PC Laptop?

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I was thinking that Mac laptops generally cost more than the equivalent Asus and defintely Dell laptops. I mean sure you pay for the design, build quality, materials and OS perhaps?

...anyway what im getting at is does it keep its value better? I know technology in general is on on-going thing thanks to Moore's law but do Apple laptops keep their value better than the PC equivalent or is this a bit of an ambiguous question? Serious question though if you know what im getting at! :confused:
 
You can get i7 mobile on PC laptops (eg Dell Studio 15) and you can't yet on Macbooks.

Therefore, at the moment PC laptops are better IMHO.

However, i'm pretty sure that macbooks hold their value well (relatively speaking) and they are usually very well made - so survive ownership well.
 
I've got a powerbook G4, 15", 1.67ghz, 1GB RAM.

It was bought just before I started uni, mid 2005. Just checked on the bay and it's still going for £300-400. I think thats pretty good going, it was top of the range at the time but i doubt a pc equivalent would be working or worth as much.

It still working great, everythings snappy, runs adobe CS4 okay, can handle large 300dpi A0 files in photoshop, gets on internet quickly and picks up networks none of my other devices can, it has a great screen and still looks cool:) that's all I need it to do really.

So... if you can afford it, go for it. They're not just a toy in a pretty box, and you're not just paying for that box. Treat it well and it will last well beyond what the specs might tell you it will...

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You know what the best bit is... The apple OS costs around £25 boxed so no you do not pay a **** load to limit the programs you can use
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well done, that would be the snow leopard upgrade you tool.
 
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yeh why i ask is that when i bought my laptop it was around £1500 and for the same price i cud have bought the exact equivalent macbook pro for around £100 more but because it had Apple OS and i needed Windows i had to decide to get the PC one because their was a real grey area with bootcamp etc at the time. Now a few years on im guessing that my laptop demands a lot less in 2nd hand resale than a Macbook pro which incidentally i am also probably looking to sell on someones behalf but cant help but think it will sell for more than mine... which might cost a bit more but doesnt have all the stuff like card reader etc


i use photoshop, autocad and 3ds max. so why wont they put the i7 in a macbook??? im sure they will but when?
 
I bought a macbook pro because it suits my needs as a student perfectly. I'd have looked at more seriously specced laptops if I wanted to play quite graphical games on it, but I don't so didn't bother lol. As someone else mentioned they are really well made but you do and will pay a premium for apple products.

To decide between a pure OS X machine and a windows one, you really need to have a good look at what you need a computer for and then weigh up the pro's and cons of either system.
 
i dont really game but the stuff i want to do on the laptop will require the same kind of spec as a gaming laptop :)

am i crazy for buying a mac and using Win 7 on it 99% of the time :D
 
k3wt said:
i dont really game but the stuff i want to do on the laptop will require the same kind of spec as a gaming laptop :)

am i crazy for buying a mac and using Win 7 on it 99% of the time :D
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What kind of stuff is that then?

Yes, you're crazy. It probably won't happen though, you'll convert to OSX:)
 
Personally, i'd get a Dell Studio 15, you can get an i7 720 @ 2.8GHz (well, turbo boosted up to 2.8GHz) with am ATI radeon 4570 and 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM for £679 which is a very good deal if you ask me.
 
as much as i would like to for the spec it packs but i just cant get over the way its put together. i had a dell laptop many years ago and it creaked, clicked and generally was a horrible piece of kit :(
 
From my personal experience with Dell laptops (admitedly only had the one) has been rather good. I got an Inspiron 9400 many moons ago. Lovely 1920x1200 screen, 2GB RAM, 7800 Go Graphics and a Core Duo. It did the job well and is very solidly built (god knows I've put it to the test).

Also, I upgraded the CPU, Wifi, HDD, RAM and OS this summer -so it feels like a whole new machine. If Dell still make em like this, i'll be buying from them again.
 
Macs hold their value better than PCs.

Partially because there's less change between versions (the one from 2 years ago isn't that much worse than the current one) and partly because they're so expensive new that there's a fairly healthy second hand market.
 
I've been looking at getting a new laptop my self as I miss my old MacBook, as said in one of the above posts the Dell Studio 15 laptops now have the i7 CPU's and compared to any MacBook they're dirt cheap.

Really depends weather you rely on OSX for your work and just because its what you prefer, I my self have always been a Windows guy and I love Windows 7. So looks like I'm going to get a Dell Studio 15" along with a nice cheap i7 upgrade for my PC in a few weeks.
 
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Really depends weather you rely on OSX for your work and just because its what you prefer, I my self have always been a Windows guy and I love Windows 7. So looks like I'm going to get a Dell Studio 15" along with a nice cheap i7 upgrade for my PC in a few weeks.
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Hackintosh? You could always install OSX on a PC.
Also, with regards to the post about Dell build quility, i've never had any problems with Dell (had a couple) and a friend of mine has the Studio 15 and its very good quality. Like Audigex says, not much changes in macs so the prices don't really go down but with Apple, they bring "brand new" products out every 4 months or so and nothing much changes.
 
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