I bought my first laptop about 8 months ago, after having used IBM and Sony laptops in the past (work-provided). I decided to listen to my heart more than my pocket and bought myself a (black) MacBook. Oh, wow! I have never been happier. Fast machine that doesn't get nearly as hot as the Sony Vaio did.
The screen isn't all that big, but fine for what I do in my own time. The hardware and software are both rock-solid, and aesthetically pleasing. I now have a slick Desktop plus the power of UNIX underneath. Having been a NeXTSTEP fan many years ago, I was very excited to see and use it re-incarnated as Mac OS, and the upgrade to Leopard recently went fairly smooth. I'm itching to see if I can boot and run Ubuntu on it as well, but for now I'm really quite happy using Mac OS at home. I've never needed to put Apple's support to the test, since nothing has ever broken (yet, touch wood). I suspect that support might be better here in Ireland than in South Africa, though. > Unfortunately, some of the damages to my laptop were self-inflicted. For > example, a few weeks after getting my Dell, I stepped on the power cable > and almost jerked the laptop off the table. My mother-in-law stepped on my power cable 2 nights ago with the laptop on top of our bookshelf - quite a distance to fall... no problemo: the magnetically-attached power chord just slipped off gently - no need to call Apple support :) Apple pays a lot of attention to fine details like this, and Steve Jobs is usually in favour of slick, simple interfaces, as witnessed in the design of the remote control and other Apple products. Other commodity products just feel clunky and cheap by comparison. Yes, Apples can be expensive, but if you look at the entire package, I think it's worth it. Johan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
