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  • #31
    Originally posted by Last Conformist
    It's an Apple product => it's underpowered, and will be bought by alot of icky humanist types. I'm gonna keep my distance.
    Did you even read the OP? Oh well, go back to your ugly nerd-street cred PC.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Verto


      Did you even read the OP? Oh well, go back to your ugly nerd-street cred PC.
      I'm neither a nerd nor a PC fanboi - I just hate Apple.

      I did read the OP. As for the underpowered charge, I think KH summed it up pretty well:
      Ahh.

      So now I can own an Intel-based laptop and only pay a 700$ premium for the privilege of running MacOS in a pretty white case?

      As for the icky humanists, I take it you've not seen the humanist half of the campus here.
      Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

      It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
      The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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      • #33
        I don't see where you get this "700$ premium", except if you compare the "MacBook", built for professionals, to a consumer-level, budget laptop from Toshiba or something. Check out IBM/Lenovo laptops, and you will find 1999+$ price tags as well.

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        • #34
          Please, MacBooks and PowerBooks arent for professionals.

          A professional laptop is, for example, a T60p...with a FireGL video card. And the reason even regular T60s have a premium are the premium features, like shock-absorbing chassis and integrated WWAN (Cell-phone based internet), biometric security, etc.
          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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          • #35
            Asher, I do not like your counter-argument, and thus I do not accept it.

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            • #36
              When I'm going to back to college in a couple of months, I'm stuck having to buy a $1k PPC Powerbook because their IT are not sure how the Intel based Macs are going to work with the PPC.

              But what bothers me is the entire school still uses WEP encryption (with a password they assign to you direct from Webster himself).
              I drink to one other, and may that other be he, to drink to another, and may that other be me!

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              • #37
                I suspect they mean design professionals. Theres a big difference between, say, IT professionals with no sex life, and a whore who doesn't know how to type.
                "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
                "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Verto
                  Asher, I do not like your counter-argument, and thus I do not accept it.
                  You have an obsolete architecture in your computer@! HAH!
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                  Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Whaleboy
                    I suspect they mean design professionals. Theres a big difference between, say, IT professionals with no sex life, and a whore who doesn't know how to type.
                    PowerBooks are the weakest laptops of the past 3 years. It baffles my mind how anyone can say their market is professionals.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #40
                      Weak in what way?
                      "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
                      "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                      • #41
                        Performance, features, battery life...
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #42
                          As if this was news.

                          I imagine Apple will sell a ton of MacBooks, since a lot of people have been waiting to upgrade for over a year.

                          Boring Macworld otherwise: just improvements to the consumer multimedia apps.
                          Only feebs vote.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Asher
                            Please, MacBooks and PowerBooks arent for professionals.

                            A professional laptop is, for example, a T60p...with a FireGL video card. And the reason even regular T60s have a premium are the premium features, like shock-absorbing chassis and integrated WWAN (Cell-phone based internet), biometric security, etc.
                            I was considering getting a laptop this summer and looked at the T60p...is the standard 512 RAM really enough?
                            "Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
                            "At least there were some thoughts went into Apocalypse." - Urban Ranger
                            "Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
                            "In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd

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                            • #44
                              Depends one what you want to do with the box, I suppose, but I'd definitely looking at getting more RAM than that. Heck, it's what my ancient compaq laptop has.
                              Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                              It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                              The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                              • #45
                                RAM is expandable...IIRC the T60p can have 2GB of RAM installed.
                                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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