From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 9:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?
I have just bought my second mac, a 2.4ghz Unibody 13" MacBook. I absolutely love it - its fast, stunning to look at, both the OS and the actual build of the thing, its light, it has very good battery life. More importantly, it does everything that I need it to do, and does it well. I *like* the fact that the OS is closed to the hardware - it means you don't have any issues with compatibility or anything like that. Spec up a Dell laptop to the same as my Macboook and Ill bet there is bugger all price difference between the two. And I know which one I would prefer. The 2.4Ghz model costs 1125 pounds on the Apple UK site (with 250GB disk and 2GB of RAM) I went to the Dell website and you can get a top of the line XPS M1330 for 847 pounds (with 2x RAM and HDD), and for 50 pounds more you can get built in 3G. Now, the styling of the Macbook might be to your liking - that's entirely up to you. But a decent non-cheapie Dell costs about 300 pounds less than a decent Macbook. Cheers Ken OTOH, I have just sold a Sony Vaio laptop to a new client for £2800. Madness. Sony you are paying for a brand - not a laptop. My wife has a top of the line (at the time) SZ48. Gorgeous looking thing. Has two video cards too - years before Apple had that (and just a toggle switch). Not the world's greatest performing laptop though. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
