How wold you know the reason people buy these laptops? You say that 13" is too small? Do you know what the most popular laptops are now? Netbooks. You cannot just say how you feel and back it up with nothing.
Netbooks aren't (typical) notebooks. 15-inch notebooks are (usually) the standard now-a-days. Fact is, many people want a bigger screen and there is
no logical reason for Apple to not have a consumer laptop that is 15 inches (or 16).
Why would Apple replace it with something that is more than twice as slow? You are all about specs. Well specs mean speed. LOL. You want it to be slower?
Because more devices use USB.
The Macbook Pro 17" battery lasts 5 YEARS.
Unless it gets hot or blows up or fudges up somehow, then you have to replace it.
You have not yet stated evidence (not from a manufacturer) that shows battery life of a 17" that approaches the MBP. BTW, who wants a makeshift battery that sticks out the back of the computer.
Well, for the price of a MacBook Pro, you can get a 12-cell battery with a notebook that will increase its lifespan by like 5 hours. Of course, it does "stick out of the back of the computer" but who wants a battery that can't even be removed?
Read it again. The battery life on average is double for OS X.
But we are talking about hardware, not the OS. The MacBook had a worse battery life for Vista
The tech specs I showed were for the X300 not T500. BTW the T500 that you pointed out has worse specs. The only thing that is superior is the processor and it is more expensive machine at $2300. The MBP has a larger hard drive, better graphics card, lighter, same amount of 2gb ddr3, and is less expensive. The reason that the thinkpad has longer battery life is because the reviewer opted for a 9-cell instead of the 6-cell that it came with. I could just get another battery for the MBP for $129 and have the same battery life with better specs at a cheaper price. The battery also doesn't stick out of the back of the machine like a sore thumb.
You are right about those specs, but there are many different Thinkpad models - including a $1000 version with 2 gigs of DDR3 RAM, Radeon 256MB graphics, a 2.4GHz IC2D for the same price as a MacBook.
$129? lol, a 9-cell upgrade for the Thinkpad is only $70 extra and is still $500 cheaper than a comparable MacBook.
DDR3 RAM does not acount for a 2.5x increase in graphics performance in crysis. It has been well known for some time that apple customizes the graphics cards they put in their machines. Chances are that is the reason for the leap in performance. When you control hardware and software, it gives you a greater edge. You just pointed out out the T500 which does not have superior specs, but rather inferior, and is more expensive.
GDDR3 (graphics memory), not DDR3 RAM.
You just pointed out out the T500 which does not have superior specs, but rather inferior, and is more expensive. But Lenovo does have great build quality though! LOL
Lenovo is far better than Apple at hardware.
You're making me dizzy. You just said in a previous post that Apple had lousy support. You point out lousy support but show no evidence.
Read these forums.
You cannot say that OS X is great and then complain about the 4850 (which was an OS X issue). If you had OS X on a Dell with a 4850, you would have had the same issue. There was still no mention of the problems of Vista initially having problems with Nvidia cards or the issues with laptops not being "Vista capable" when it said so on the box. The report I mentioned may not suit you. You can look at any report of support of the last 10 years and Apple would be at the top. This report comes as no surprise or shock to anyone.
Vista is a failure, no one uses Vista unless they are forced to and then they switch back to XP (and soon 7 anyways).
It's when you spend $2500 on a notebook that is worth $1500 at the most, you try to rationalize it and say you are super satisfied.
