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Can I use a Macbook for my main computer?
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I'm 15 and my MacBook has been my main computer since November 2007. It's still running as good as it did when I took it out of the box. I use my MacBook for around, on average, 3-4 hours a day...rarely lags, and it's always ready for action. 
While this thread is already long enough, I'll add my quick 2¢.
My 2 main computers are listed in my sig below, but in terms of hours per week, my MacBook gets far more use than the Mac Pro. So, in a sense, my MacBook is my main computer and my Mac Pro is my secondary machine.
I use it out and about often, attached to a second (21") display at work, and frequently attached to an Apple 20" Cinema at home.
My 2 main computers are listed in my sig below, but in terms of hours per week, my MacBook gets far more use than the Mac Pro. So, in a sense, my MacBook is my main computer and my Mac Pro is my secondary machine.
I use it out and about often, attached to a second (21") display at work, and frequently attached to an Apple 20" Cinema at home.
3-4 hrs per day, sometimes longer, and most of it on its 13" screen. At work I'll often plug in a 21" display and use both when preparing Keynote presentations.
These days with my current work at least 5 hours a day and it is never switched off. It is plugged into an external 20' wide screen monitor which auto-powers down if I am away.
You can most definitely use a Macbook as your one and only computer. I have done so for three years now and it is great. Before then I had a windows laptop that I used and my only computer. Laptops are able to handle anything and everything that a desktop can.
I even played WoW for 10 hours a day for a whole year and my guy never failed on me. Aside from that, they can even handle pro applications like Adobe Suite amongst other programs.
I even played WoW for 10 hours a day for a whole year and my guy never failed on me. Aside from that, they can even handle pro applications like Adobe Suite amongst other programs.
I hate to admit, the MacBook sees me more than my iMac does, definitely can use it as a main computer.
I do still call the iMac my "main computer"
I do still call the iMac my "main computer"
I use mine for anywhere from 10-14 hours per day or more.
I'm usually online in the morning before I hop in the shower, checking on my email.
Travels with me to my client and is in use all day, often in dual-screen mode to an external HP L1906 (it sucks, but it's what the client provided). As an aside, I am almost always running a WinXP VM (in Fusion) during this time.
In the evening I am online for another hour or three doing various other client work, running my business, or playing a game.
6+ hours a day. Usually Adium, Firefox, Photoshop, iTunes, uTorrent, Teeworlds, Word, often all at once. Also Pro Tools runs particularly well on this machine. Perfect as a main computer if you don't need to use 3D intensive programs.
I have used a MacBook (Rev A black and now 2.4 alu) as my primary machine for around 7 months. Before that I used a PowerMac 2GHz. I switched to the MacBook because the PowerMac was too noisy and hot in my room.
I haven't had any problems using the MacBook as my main machine. I plug it into a 20" ACD while I'm at my desk.
We have around 60 MacBook's being used by staff in the Faculty I work and they've all been just dandy.
I haven't had any problems using the MacBook as my main machine. I plug it into a 20" ACD while I'm at my desk.
We have around 60 MacBook's being used by staff in the Faculty I work and they've all been just dandy.