Macbook-like laptop, but not a macbook.. (1 Viewer)

[Omie Jay]

The things i love about macbooks are that they have around 5hrs battery, theyre thin and sleek, light weight and so easily portable.

What i DONT like, however, is the OSX interface, the single click mouse and those extra buttons, command and whatever.

Is there such thing as a laptop that has the extremely long lasting battery, sleek design, light weight and portability of a macbook, but has a microsoft interface?

Preferably with cpu of around 2.4ghz dual core and at least 2 gigs ram, i wont be gaming so integrated graphics will be fine.

Does such a laptop exist?

 

[whatashotbyseve]

What is wrong with the OSX interface?

Single click mouse takes two days to get used to. You will not miss dual click.

You could always boot camp.

 

[Omie Jay]

yeah but ive just gotten used to vista and i dont get the whole file setup of macbooks, the clickage i can get used to but the entire setup will take me a while, and i'd rather stick with what im familiar with.

 

[jb_nc]

sony vaio however they are more expensive then macbooks and sony

maybe a dell 13" if you upgrade the battery? dunno. just get a macbook

 

[Omie Jay]

or hows about Dell Adamo?

not released yet, i wonder wat its battery's like, and price..

 

[Omie Jay]

um do u mean dualbooting?

because that would still have mac buttons and the mac style touchpad, 1click mouse..

 

[aussie-boy]

um do u mean dualbooting?

because that would still have mac buttons and the mac style touchpad, 1click mouse..

mac mouses have more than one button; same as the touchpad

 

[AsyLum]

Don't buy a mac, you're too fucking stupid to understand the unix filesystem.

Because the majority of users give a fuck about that shit, stop trying so hard you dipshit.

 

[Omie Jay]

Don't buy a mac, you're too fucking stupid to understand the unix filesystem.

correct, and i cbf'd learning new stuff...

Because the majority of users give a fuck about that shit

i dont give a fuck about that shit anyways.

 

[AsyLum]

You win at detecting sarcasm.

 

[whatashotbyseve]

um do u mean dualbooting?

because that would still have mac buttons and the mac style touchpad, 1click mouse..

You know Macs do accept Windows USB mouses (mice??) right?. So if you really couldn't wean yourself off dual click, you could use your current mouse.

 

[Omie Jay]

really? i didnt know that!

so the right click still acts as the 'options' function?

and still theres the osx interface im not used to, i tend to be really fast at using my computer, meaning i want good processor and ram and easy to use and familiar interface.

my purpose of this thread was to find out if there was any laptops that are as sleek and battery massive as the mac, yet are not macs.

there is the dell adamo my friend on msn told me, but thats not released yet.

 

[whatashotbyseve]

It will seriously take two days to get used to Leopard. Max. Maybe a week to find out its better features. Then you will wonder why you didn't switch earlier.

Why look for a Mac that looks like a Mac, acts like a Mac, but isn't a Mac when you could just have a Mac?

 

[Omie Jay]

i dont want it to act like a mac, i just want it to be thin and have 5hrs battery like a mac.

 

[justanotherposter]

or hows about Dell Adamo?

not released yet, i wonder wat its battery's like, and price..

Does the Adamo have an optical drive? If not then it will fail and rightly so.

 

[Omie Jay]

dunno, its not out yet

 

[withoutaface]

You can configure the mac touchpad to right click when you click in the bottom right corner. There are no 'extra' buttons, there's still just the three modifier keys as on a PC (option, command, control vs ctrl, windows, alt).

File setup? Your apps are contained in one folder. Your documents are contained in another. What more is there to understand?

EDIT: Obligatory "whatever you do, don't buy HP" warning. They will send you a laptop that doesn't meet the advertised specs then fuck you around for six months (and counting) to attempt to get a refund.