MacBook Pro or Sony Vaio?

[L0s7man]

Hehe, I just realized that I might be way less biased than people here, simply because for me it isn't a choice between Mac and Windows...

Its either OS X or Linux; and I'm not talking Ubuntu crap; I'm talking Gentoo + Xmonad.

OS X is like pimped Linux. I'd love to stay with OS X because I can enjoy few perks effortlessly - nice font support for compiling my LaTeX documents, nice Unicode support so I can have my lambdas looking cute, etc.

I couldn't work on Windows; it requires doing things in a way that I simply find horrible (with clicking everywhere... yuck).

 

[lpolarityl]

MacBook Pro hands down. Eveything about a MacBook laptop (base model to the Pro's) is far superior to any other Windows alternative. Build quality, display, look and feel, the OS (OSX is fantastic), and lets not forget the very useful included applications. I don't think I'd ever buy a Windows laptop after having a MacBook.

Although the top of the line Vaio is very nice, its still not the same as buying an equally valued MacBook Pro, even if it is underpowered. There's just something about the overall quality on Apple products that screams " I really am worth the price you're about to pay", whereas a Windows based laptop screams " I'm going to be worth 3/4 my value the moment you pay, be filled with malware eventually, and probably have a dimmed screen, a couple busted keys and a sketchy audio port in a month or two. "

 

[L0s7man]

display? superior? are you serious?

macbooks had horrible displays for years; horrible, horrible, horrible.

13" MBP's display isn't superior to anything. There are dozens of laptops with way better displays. Vaio Z's 1600x900 "half-matte" (I'm calling it half-matte, because it isn't your average matte screen) is SUPERIOR. This display is awesome and the best I've seen in any laptop.

Oh and first aluminium Macbooks also had the same ***** displays 13" plastic macbook.

15" MBP's display on the other hand is good. You get fairly sensible resolution with the (almost)high-res option.

 

[TopHatPlus]

well i own a 15" high res 2010 mbp and it makes EVERY OTHER laptop look cheap as hell! the screen on this baby is so vibrant it almost makes your eyes water. I just looked at the some z series for giggle, and giggles is all there worth, they have there "signature" collection the one carbon z it like $4700, and the regular one with a 2.66 ghz i7 (the same as my processor) for $1900, i spent $2000 and got my 15" mbp, and i owned one of those old macbooks from 2007 the black one and its screen was better still then 90% of those garbage pc laptops selling today... not to mentions the sonys plastic shell and less then par battery life and thats just on the z anything lower and it was 3.5 hours.... might as well take a generator with you for portability... i am just disappointed so many people saying they are worth a look >_< johnny five said it very nicely. When you have a macbook pro on your lap you just know =D

 

[HLdan]

display? superior? are you serious?

macbooks had horrible displays for years; horrible, horrible, horrible.

13" MBP's display isn't superior to anything. There are dozens of laptops with way better displays. Vaio Z's 1600x900 "half-matte" (I'm calling it half-matte, because it isn't your average matte screen) is SUPERIOR. This display is awesome and the best I've seen in any laptop.

Yawwwwwwn.

 

[L0s7man]

well i own a 15" high res 2010 mbp and it makes EVERY OTHER laptop look cheap as hell! the screen on this baby is so vibrant it almost makes your eyes water. I just looked at the some z series for giggle, and giggles is all there worth, they have there "signature" collection the one carbon z it like $4700, and the regular one with a 2.66 ghz i7 (the same as my processor) for $1900, i spent $2000 and got my 15" mbp, and i owned one of those old macbooks from 2007 the black one and its screen was better still then 90% of those garbage pc laptops selling today... not to mentions the sonys plastic shell and less then par battery life and thats just on the z anything lower and it was 3.5 hours.... might as well take a generator with you for portability... i am just disappointed so many people saying they are worth a look >_< johnny five said it very nicely. When you have a macbook pro on your lap you just know =D

Sigh... you can't compare 15" MBP to 13" Vaio Z... different class of notebooks. I happily admit that 15" MBP is undoubtedly the best laptop in its class; however, I want thin and light; and MBP 13" just doesn't cut it. For about 1.55k GBP you can get 1600x900 screen, 4x64GB SSD Raid 0 and 6GB RAM and i7. Is that really expensive compared to outdated and overpriced 13" MBP with crappier screen?

(note, if Apple updates either MBP13" or Air, I'll be the first one to buy)

 

[HLdan]

Sigh... you can't compare 15" MBP to 13" Vaio Z... different class of notebooks. I happily admit that 15" MBP is undoubtedly the best laptop in its class; however, I want thin and light; and MBP 13" just doesn't cut it. For about 1.55k GBP you can get 1600x900 screen, 4x64GB SSD Raid 0 and 6GB RAM and i7. Is that really expensive compared to outdated and overpriced 13" MBP with crappier screen?

(note, if Apple updates either MBP13" or Air, I'll be the first one to buy)

I know first hand just by your post that you've never seen the 13" MBP screen. It's just a slight hair less than the 15" and you have to put them side by side to compare and it's still hard to detect. The Vaio Z has good vertical viewing angles, but horrible horizontal viewing angles. Unless you're looking at it spot on it has enormous colorshift when viewing it off center and I do know this first hand not to mention that weird so-called antiglare screen which is nothing but a glossy screen with a coating over it.

 

[L0s7man]

Oh, let me clarify: in my mind a low resolution screen is a crappy screen even though contrast/viewing angles might be good. With mighty 1280x800 13" MBP places itself in front of the pack of year 2000 laptops. World has moved on, heck, even Apple has moved on (1080p in 17", 1680xsomething in 15", heck even 640x960 in bloody iPhone) and MBP13" is still stuck with no option for a high-res screen.

I could forgive a lot. eSATA, USB3.0, i5/i7 - who cares? All I want is lots of space for writing my code in a 13" package.