Getting myself a new laptop strictly for work - What about a macbook?
 

I've been a Windows user all my life but I think I would like to try a Mac. I work for a big ISP in Iceland, and all the mac users rave about their computers like brainwashed zombies... so this stuff gotta be good right?

I got one recently and love it. Make sure you get at least 1gig of RAM and checkout out Parallels Desktop, making it easy for you to run WinXP on your Macbook.

http://parallels.com/

http://parallels.com/files/upload/desktop_1.gif

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same situation as you, never used a mac in my life, but i'm a freebsd fan and i figure why not have a desktop os that also works as a great development server. picked up a macbook and i dig it.

I know the mac haters will be in here before long, but I love 'em.

Get a mac, You'll hate it for a week and love it for the rest of your life after that.

Get a mac, You'll hate it for a week and love it for the rest of your life after that.

Yeah, I love to pay for overpriced hardware that isnt compatiable with anything.

bought a macbook two days ago. I really like it!

I've got macbook pro.. it's hot shit.. never had a mac before, just got it when they went intel. Absolutely love it.

get a macbook! :thumbsup

Get an Alien notebook :)
http://www.smart-shop.com/demoshop/i...ien_notebook_2

and for the record I've spent all night tinkering and installing windows (again!) on my sisters broken Windows PC.

Isn't alienware a bit overpriced?

They're never high in the rankings in consumer reports. I'd stick with more reputable brands such as Lenovo/IBM and Toshiba or Apple(ugh) which always rank at the top of laptop brand ratings for quality and customer service.

sony sony sony sony sony sony sony!

lmfao.. I owned that exact laptop.. and its a pile of junk.

nice and fast but once it breaks.. good fucking luck, I spent months getting it fixed and sold to buy myself a macbook.

lmfao.. I owned that exact laptop.. and its a pile of junk.

nice and fast but once it breaks.. good fucking luck, I spent months getting it fixed and sold to buy myself a macbook.

lmfao.. I owned that exact laptop.. and its a pile of junk.

nice and fast but once it breaks.. good fucking luck, I spent months getting it fixed and sold to buy myself a macbook.

wtf i hit the submit button only once.

the macbook looks better and better, awesome replies you guys.

Once I sell my old latptop, I'll be buying a Macbook. I'll be running Bootcamp so I use XP on it as well.

I love my mac and I'm not letting go

Mac sucks... you can't run all your winxp aplications. it's a pain in the ass.

That's not true anymore.

WTH are you talking about. Do a LITTLE research before you make a statement like that. You show your ignorance.

If you load bootcamp on a macbook pro, and windows xp sp2, then your running windows. That means anything and everything that you would normally run on any other windows machine run on the macbook.... simple as that. You do understand that right? Your BOOTING to windows XP, NOT running it on top of OSX. When you do this, you also better have all your regular antivirus and spyware apps running, because your machine at that point IS a windows XP machine. Hats off to Apple for not only giving us the choice to run OSX or Windows XP, But giving us a FREE tool to do it and provideing ALL the drivers in simple self creating CD to make the features of the Macbook pro work with XP without having to hunt all over the net for them. Tell me another company that has made it so simple.

Oh and check the thread I created about my experiance with my new Macbook pro ...

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=623452

hmmm, i love to have a macbook, but i would settle for my ibm and dell for the moment... :thumbsup

it's PC for me all the way

I think the next unit I get will be either a Sony or an IBM. I hate Dell, Compaq, Gateway and MACs.

That is so true!

You have to unlearn all the bad habits you learnt as a windows users which you think are standard.

macbooks are nice for work purposes