Why should I buy Mac?
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I have a macbook, biggest waste of my money ever! Just buy a £300 laptop, does the same job.
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Because at the end of the day it does the same job, just like a £500 or a £50,000 car. the difference is user experience and the way you get there.
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Avoid Acer like the plague. I have had experience with them at work and they are poorly built and the support from Acer is dire.
Anyway Acer is value for money compared to Apple in the same way as a Casio watch is better value fro money than a Breitling.
Both tell the time.
So Acer seems to be out of the question. Shame a few of them looked pretty decent that I was looking at. At the moment it seems to be between Mac and Sony. Does that seem like a decent choice? Any problems with Sony that people know of?
Boring advice here before I give my opwn opinion. Go to an Apple shop and give it a go.
I used to be all PC and never gave MAcs a second thought mainly due to software availability on Macs. BUt now most popular software is compatible on Mac and PC. Anything thats not, you probably have a PC, if not theres bootcamp.
What prompted me to to first look at buying a mac was build quailty. My cousin bought a Macbook pro and I bought a ASUS laptop around the same time. It was a very high spec laptop then(the ASUS). 4 years later, his looks almost brand new, and mine lots of quality issues and just feels so much older than his.
Of course this is just my own experience, they'll be ASUS owners who will be still using their laptops after so many years and it'll be fine and they'll be Mac owners who have had quality issues.
I got my first Macbook (the first 13' unibody ones) last year. And the feel of quality, its just way beyond anything I looked at. I was looking at Sony laptops before Z series before. To be honest maybe the videos of the whole manufacturing process and the tutorial videos on the apple site sold it to me. Sucker? Maybe.. But I've not regretted buying it.
The OS seems to be very slick. Where with Windows, you know after a few years its just going to be doing something in the background which eats up all your resources.
I use my mac a lot and I still use my PC. If you already have a PC, I would suggest trying a Mac.
Apologies for the long reply.
But I hope it helps you in your decision.
EDIT: Macbook screen, picture quality & brightness seemed way above any other laptop also. The trackpad gestures thing actuallly makes using a mouse seem less effective.
I used to be all PC and never gave MAcs a second thought mainly due to software availability on Macs. BUt now most popular software is compatible on Mac and PC. Anything thats not, you probably have a PC, if not theres bootcamp.
What prompted me to to first look at buying a mac was build quailty. My cousin bought a Macbook pro and I bought a ASUS laptop around the same time. It was a very high spec laptop then(the ASUS). 4 years later, his looks almost brand new, and mine lots of quality issues and just feels so much older than his.
Of course this is just my own experience, they'll be ASUS owners who will be still using their laptops after so many years and it'll be fine and they'll be Mac owners who have had quality issues.
I got my first Macbook (the first 13' unibody ones) last year. And the feel of quality, its just way beyond anything I looked at. I was looking at Sony laptops before Z series before. To be honest maybe the videos of the whole manufacturing process and the tutorial videos on the apple site sold it to me. Sucker? Maybe.. But I've not regretted buying it.
The OS seems to be very slick. Where with Windows, you know after a few years its just going to be doing something in the background which eats up all your resources.
I use my mac a lot and I still use my PC. If you already have a PC, I would suggest trying a Mac.
Apologies for the long reply.
But I hope it helps you in your decision.
EDIT: Macbook screen, picture quality & brightness seemed way above any other laptop also. The trackpad gestures thing actuallly makes using a mouse seem less effective.
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I have owned two Sony laptops (one cost over £2000) and both have had the build quality of a Kia Pride. Sony's support is next to useless. On the plus side they tend to be nice, powerful laptops.
I have a 13" MacBook Pro at work and a MacBook at home and the build quality is very high and my MacBook has performed without missing a beat for three years now (and I only did a re-install to go from Tiger to Leopard) and still feels fresh.
The new 13" MacBook Pro is a beast of a laptop.
Anyway you pays your money you takes your choice. I'd go for the Apple but that's not to say that an equally priced Sony won't be the laptop for you.
Agreed, Acer build quality is pretty terrible and their customer service people aren't too helpful either. Took them something like 6 weeks to repair (replace actually) my netbook that went faulty 4 days after I bought it. I'd have expected them to just send me a new one straight away considering it was so new.
If you're looking at the MacBook Pro 13" but want a PC equivalent, give the Dell Studio XPS 13 a look too. It's probably as near as you can get in PC terms, the battery life isn't as good but they're built well, look very nice and the specs are fairly impressive for the money.