Armchair Expert
Vedran Corluka
I've always used windows but I'm thinking about switching to a MacBook. But its a hefty investment and was wondering if anyone has any opinions?
I've never really had much to do with Mac's but my girlfriend was complaining that hers wasn't working so it took a look at it. Turns out it was a late 2006 IMAC5,1 still running Tiger OSX #-o
Anyway, bought Snow Leopard for about 20 quid, downloaded the free updated, chucked an extra 4GB of ram in there and now its working like a charm.
The moral of the story is that I was extremely impressed with the robustness of the computer. Also, if you stay up to date with the OSX releases you can have a computer that last ages. Apparently support for SL is stopping soon (now that Mavericks is out) but I think that her computer will have done a good 10 years before its ready for the scrap heap.
I've been looking at buying a Macbook and the prices are a bit daunting. Also, the specs of the computers aren't that impressive (although they say with turbo boost the processor speed is doubled) and you could by a windows laptop with similar spec for about 500 quid, rather than fork out 1200 on a macbook pro. I've also seen that MacBook Air doesnt have a CD/DVD drive, although I suppose thats not so important these days.
What do you guys think? Do macs justify the extra spend through build and design? You can bump up the Ram and GHZ when you order the computer, but then your looking at about 1500 for a laptop
Any advice/opinions greatly received!
I've never really had much to do with Mac's but my girlfriend was complaining that hers wasn't working so it took a look at it. Turns out it was a late 2006 IMAC5,1 still running Tiger OSX #-o
Anyway, bought Snow Leopard for about 20 quid, downloaded the free updated, chucked an extra 4GB of ram in there and now its working like a charm.
The moral of the story is that I was extremely impressed with the robustness of the computer. Also, if you stay up to date with the OSX releases you can have a computer that last ages. Apparently support for SL is stopping soon (now that Mavericks is out) but I think that her computer will have done a good 10 years before its ready for the scrap heap.
I've been looking at buying a Macbook and the prices are a bit daunting. Also, the specs of the computers aren't that impressive (although they say with turbo boost the processor speed is doubled) and you could by a windows laptop with similar spec for about 500 quid, rather than fork out 1200 on a macbook pro. I've also seen that MacBook Air doesnt have a CD/DVD drive, although I suppose thats not so important these days.
What do you guys think? Do macs justify the extra spend through build and design? You can bump up the Ram and GHZ when you order the computer, but then your looking at about 1500 for a laptop
Any advice/opinions greatly received!