With the recent passing of my desktop computer and the diminishing health of both of our laptops, its becoming clear that my wife and I are going to need to get a new computer soon. That said, I'm at a loss as to what I should become serious about purchasing. I love Apple computers. I'm typing this up on a true soldier, my old iBook from well before Apple could spell Intel. I also love the macbook pro I use for office work.
But I feel its coming down to principle. You know the recent news. Apple has made a bunch of big moves recently to say "Screw you world, do things our way". Examples. There are the changes to the iPhone/iPad developer stuff making it illegal to make iPhone/iPad any other way than the official Apple way. And there's the news today that they denied an app from the App Store that used multi-touch to browse photos stating that only official apps are allowed to do that. Those are just two brief example. Come on Apple, these are just silly.
So what do I do? Jobs, I think your laptops are great. I want one with reliable hardware and good battery life. I've also already invested in Logic for my recording software and don't really feel like investing in another product. That said, you're a jerk.
Alternatively we could go ahead and get a Windows based laptop that costs a lot less. There are a lot of options and I'm sure we could find one at a decent price. However you get what you pay for. My HP desktop lasted less than 2 years with less than frequent use. My wife's laptop has been having power and screen issues for quite a while now and its about as old as my laptop.
Where to go from here?
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Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 7. Utterly reliable, great performance and hardware that simply doesn't break.
If you are going to spend the money on an apple, then why not get something ten times more powerful and get a custom-built laptop. From what I have read they are crazy reliable but also allow for ultimate personalization. I am thinking a nice 18.4" screen, dual 1 gig video cards, an I7 980 (that’s right 6 physical cores, 6 virtual cores) and 8 gig of DDR3 triple core memory. Oh and do not forget the near instant data access of triple SSD's in a raid 5 System.
Now that is a laptop, expensive and ridiculous, but at least my point is made... almost anything is possible.
I hear your points and if I was getting a non-apple laptop it would probably be in one of these two areas. HP just sucks and I'd have to put our for a reliable Dell (aka an Alienware monster). But again I'm hesitant because of my Logic purchase. Its the DAW that I decided best fit my needs and its the one that I've grown accustomed to. Of course that's Apple only software and won't run on Windows. Maybe the search begins again? I really don't want to use that crappy Tracktion software that came with the Mackie.
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