PC laptop or Mac Air?

[Porridge]

wee bit sharp

My only complaint.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

When I bought my old macbook from a third party vender they installed extra RAM. It was bad and "killed" the laptop. I got a brand new one from Apple so it does NOT void your warranty if they are an authorized dealer.

 

[edlinmccosker]

I drowned my macbook.

 

[Imdanny]

I drowned my macbook.

On purpose?

 

[Octavia]

The old Macbooks and new Macbook Pros are totally customizable. DH had 8 gigs of RAM in his old one even though it supposedly can only recognize 4 (he did something to make the computer recognize it) and he also changed the hardrive. When he bought a new Pro, he popped in the hardrive from his old Macbook and it worked straight away. Apparently that wouldn't happen with a PC. The best part is that tinkering doesn't void the warranty! Apple won't support the after market parts, but the warranty still stands on everything else. Definitely not the case with Sony.

He once snapped the sim card holder in an iphone he bought secondhand on craigslist in Canada. The warranty had just expired, but he brought it in to an apple store in the UK to see if they could do anything and they replaced it on the spot! In contrast, Sony wouldn't fix my laptop that was still covered under warranty because the ink on my original receipt was too faded for them to read. I bought it from a Sony store and they had a record of my purchase, but they won't honor the warranty without a receipt.

Basically if you want a PC of comparable quality to a Mac with great customer service, you'll have to buy something like a ThinkPad. In the end, you're looking at paying the same, or maybe more. The $350 Best Buy special is not comparable to a Macbook regardless of the similarity in specs.

Not entirely true about the bolded -- Thinkpads are not made by IBM anymore, they're made by Lenovo, and the quality sucks. I got one for law school and, while I admit it's gotten a ton of use and I haven't always been super-careful with it, the machine is literally falling apart. The hard drive crashed a couple years ago (was under warranty so it was replaced, but it was a huge debacle); the glue that holds the plastic rim around the screen leaks out all over the screen and has allowed air bubbles to get in around the edges; the springs between the keyboard and lid section just failed so the lid flaps around (out of warranty now, so I made a DIY lid support)...I would not recommend a Thinkpad. And customer service hasn't been great during my numerous contacts with them, either. I totally agree about the price, though, I still get angry when I think about how much I paid for this POS.

In the past, I've always been a diehard PC person, but my next computer will definitely be a Mac. No question.

 

[chemgirl]

The old Macbooks and new Macbook Pros are totally customizable. DH had 8 gigs of RAM in his old one even though it supposedly can only recognize 4 (he did something to make the computer recognize it) and he also changed the hardrive. When he bought a new Pro, he popped in the hardrive from his old Macbook and it worked straight away. Apparently that wouldn't happen with a PC. The best part is that tinkering doesn't void the warranty! Apple won't support the after market parts, but the warranty still stands on everything else. Definitely not the case with Sony.

He once snapped the sim card holder in an iphone he bought secondhand on craigslist in Canada. The warranty had just expired, but he brought it in to an apple store in the UK to see if they could do anything and they replaced it on the spot! In contrast, Sony wouldn't fix my laptop that was still covered under warranty because the ink on my original receipt was too faded for them to read. I bought it from a Sony store and they had a record of my purchase, but they won't honor the warranty without a receipt.

Basically if you want a PC of comparable quality to a Mac with great customer service, you'll have to buy something like a ThinkPad. In the end, you're looking at paying the same, or maybe more. The $350 Best Buy special is not comparable to a Macbook regardless of the similarity in specs.

Not entirely true about the bolded -- Thinkpads are not made by IBM anymore, they're made by Lenovo, and the quality sucks. I got one for law school and, while I admit it's gotten a ton of use and I haven't always been super-careful with it, the machine is literally falling apart. The hard drive crashed a couple years ago (was under warranty so it was replaced, but it was a huge debacle); the glue that holds the plastic rim around the screen leaks out all over the screen and has allowed air bubbles to get in around the edges; the springs between the keyboard and lid section just failed so the lid flaps around (out of warranty now, so I made a DIY lid support)...I would not recommend a Thinkpad. And customer service hasn't been great during my numerous contacts with them, either. I totally agree about the price, though, I still get angry when I think about how much I paid for this POS.

In the past, I've always been a diehard PC person, but my next computer will definitely be a Mac. No question.

Good to know. I knew about them being made by Lenovo, but I had heard good things. The old Thinkpads are tanks (well in my experience) so I was hoping they kept up the quality. They didn't exactly come down in price so its disappointing to hear that the quality changed.

I guess my point was that you can't buy an HP/Dell/Acer/Asus/etc and expect it to hold up like a Mac, but when people complain about the price of a Mac that's exactly what they're doing.