Hi all,
during the last days I kind of reached a turning point. My Powerbook G4 is now 8 years old.. the display died a few weeks ago, the logicboard is defective in many ways and it's awfully slow. But it served many years, so I don't regret buying it at all.
Now the task to find a new laptop became the topic of the last days. Sure enough, my first clue: look at the new MBPs. Great machines, perhaps will again last for years and even though they are expensive - they will be worth the money. But, will they? It's common, espacially here, to find users moaning about the price, the hardware and everythingelse one can imagine. They always give some examples, I saw quite a few 13" laptops by other vendors getting compared.. but let's try a different approach this time.
This is the Macbook I'd buy:
MBP 15", 2.2GHz i7
4 GB RAM (will upgrade it myself to 8)
128 GB SSD (will be sold and replaced by the 240 GB Vertex 3)
HD anti-glare Screen
The price? Apple gives me around 12 percent on the whole deal if I buy the 2.3GHz option and buy it through an Apple on Campus-Store, but only less than 5% with the 2.2 GHz buying it for business. Sure, Apple on Campus is the best deal I'll get, but it still is expensive. For personal reasons I'd like to buy it over the business store, that would be nearly the same price without the better cpu.
I started to think about moving away from Apple. They are at last the same kind of mass-productioned Notebooks as those by other vendors, the quality is not that high as it used to be, imho. But as hard as I looked.. I didn't find one laptop to match the specifications. Not smaller then 14,6", not bigger than 15,6", not heavier than the macbook, more than 6 hours of battery life, at least the i7 2.2 quad, sata3, a decent trackpad (decent, not apple - there is none to compete with), at least 8 gb ram to be installed, a decent graficcard (I do not play games or use photoshop.. I only need it to drive 2 displays and play TES5 during November). I love the MagSafe adapter, and I know, the same as with the trackpad.. no chance elsewhere.. I'd have to live with it. If anybody got a businessclass machine with those specs, a decent build-quality within an acceptable pricerange.. please post it here.
If I left out anything, feel free to ask.
I do know, that this is a strange place for the question, but want to give it a try.
Thanks for reading and posting
during the last days I kind of reached a turning point. My Powerbook G4 is now 8 years old.. the display died a few weeks ago, the logicboard is defective in many ways and it's awfully slow. But it served many years, so I don't regret buying it at all.
Now the task to find a new laptop became the topic of the last days. Sure enough, my first clue: look at the new MBPs. Great machines, perhaps will again last for years and even though they are expensive - they will be worth the money. But, will they? It's common, espacially here, to find users moaning about the price, the hardware and everythingelse one can imagine. They always give some examples, I saw quite a few 13" laptops by other vendors getting compared.. but let's try a different approach this time.
This is the Macbook I'd buy:
MBP 15", 2.2GHz i7
4 GB RAM (will upgrade it myself to 8)
128 GB SSD (will be sold and replaced by the 240 GB Vertex 3)
HD anti-glare Screen
The price? Apple gives me around 12 percent on the whole deal if I buy the 2.3GHz option and buy it through an Apple on Campus-Store, but only less than 5% with the 2.2 GHz buying it for business. Sure, Apple on Campus is the best deal I'll get, but it still is expensive. For personal reasons I'd like to buy it over the business store, that would be nearly the same price without the better cpu.
I started to think about moving away from Apple. They are at last the same kind of mass-productioned Notebooks as those by other vendors, the quality is not that high as it used to be, imho. But as hard as I looked.. I didn't find one laptop to match the specifications. Not smaller then 14,6", not bigger than 15,6", not heavier than the macbook, more than 6 hours of battery life, at least the i7 2.2 quad, sata3, a decent trackpad (decent, not apple - there is none to compete with), at least 8 gb ram to be installed, a decent graficcard (I do not play games or use photoshop.. I only need it to drive 2 displays and play TES5 during November). I love the MagSafe adapter, and I know, the same as with the trackpad.. no chance elsewhere.. I'd have to live with it. If anybody got a businessclass machine with those specs, a decent build-quality within an acceptable pricerange.. please post it here.
If I left out anything, feel free to ask.
I do know, that this is a strange place for the question, but want to give it a try.
Thanks for reading and posting
