Comments on: Students Prefer PC Notebooks to Netbooks and Both to Apple http://blog.laptopmag.com/students-prefer-pc-notebooks-to-netbooks-and-both-to-apple News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josh http://blog.laptopmag.com/students-prefer-pc-notebooks-to-netbooks-and-both-to-apple/comment-page-1#comment-23581 Josh Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:05:45 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=19408#comment-23581 I completely agree with this article and it comes at no surprise given the economy's woes and the release of Windows 7. As a current MacBook owner purchased last year, ($850 refurbished mentioned in the article) - I really enjoy the computer and it's size and great battery life. However, if I was to purchase again -right now- in this economy and 7's release, I would easily pick a Dell Studio 14z or Dell Vostro 1320 or HP DV3 over any MacBook. There are great things about the "Mac side" of life,(E.g. Battery life, Time Machine, Expose, others) but it's flash support is horrible and Apple's poor driver support for Boot Camp. (Touch-to-click will never appear to be implemented for the trackpad.) Not to mention battery life is awful under Windows. Even so, I expect to keep this notebook for the next couple of years. Who knows, maybe this study won't make much of a difference and people will buy Apple notebooks, but until the economy improves -- I don't see it happening. I completely agree with this article and it comes at no surprise given the economy’s woes and the release of Windows 7. As a current MacBook owner purchased last year, ($850 refurbished mentioned in the article) – I really enjoy the computer and it’s size and great battery life. However, if I was to purchase again -right now- in this economy and 7′s release, I would easily pick a Dell Studio 14z or Dell Vostro 1320 or HP DV3 over any MacBook.

There are great things about the “Mac side” of life,(E.g. Battery life, Time Machine, Expose, others) but it’s flash support is horrible and Apple’s poor driver support for Boot Camp. (Touch-to-click will never appear to be implemented for the trackpad.) Not to mention battery life is awful under Windows.

Even so, I expect to keep this notebook for the next couple of years. Who knows, maybe this study won’t make much of a difference and people will buy Apple notebooks, but until the economy improves — I don’t see it happening.

]]> By: deejay http://blog.laptopmag.com/students-prefer-pc-notebooks-to-netbooks-and-both-to-apple/comment-page-1#comment-22885 deejay Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:56:47 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=19408#comment-22885 I went for the 250GB MacBook Pro and upgraded to 8GB of RAM a few weeks ago, as I work in graphic/web design and need something portable and powerful. It's definitely at the expensive end of the range but I find its worth it to run a system that's so easy to troubleshoot and performs excellently running the whole Adobe Suite and several thousand browser tabs. External HDs are so cheap these days that processing power came before HD size for me. I went for the 250GB MacBook Pro and upgraded to 8GB of RAM a few weeks ago, as I work in graphic/web design and need something portable and powerful. It’s definitely at the expensive end of the range but I find its worth it to run a system that’s so easy to troubleshoot and performs excellently running the whole Adobe Suite and several thousand browser tabs. External HDs are so cheap these days that processing power came before HD size for me.

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