Re: Gosh don't you just love Apple!!! I mean ugh...so hard to keep it professional ha
I can get a dell XPS m17 laptop with 2x280M GTX's, 2x500gb HD's, Vista/Windows 7, and 8 GB of RAM (so practically a desktop replacement) for about 500 dollars more...I think that practically shits on apple.
The reason I love my Macbook soo much is because the chassis is made from a
single piece of aluminium. You have no idea how strong, solid and light it feels.
Additionally, the trackpad is fantastic. IT IS A THIRD OF THE BELOW-KEYBOARD SPACE. It is MASSIVE. And the multitouch gestures (such as two fingers for smoooth scrolling) are fantastic.
Yeah, for the same price that I payed for my Macbook I could have gotten a Dell laptop with (at least) twice the hard drive capacity, four times the RAM, a bigger screen and a slightly faster processor.
But I decided to opt for a Unibody Macbook. I don't need 8 GB of RAM (remember, you need 64bit Windows to address it all) and I definitely don't need more than 230 GB of storage on my device (an external hard drive for my complete video collection is fine). The only thing that I have ever regret (regret? regretted?) is the smaller horizontal resolution, and I only regret that when using Interface Builder (programming thing).
But in the end, I feel quite satisfied with what I bought, and that is all that really matters. I knew I was going to I buy a high end laptop from the very beginning. After all, you do get what you paid for.