Go for it!
So my little HP laptop is on its last leg. It's about 5 years old now, almost a lost cause. I was in the Apple store looking at the MacBooks. Everyone I know seems to be really happy with them, just wondering if anyone here at any personal experience.
thanks,
-nick
I <3 my Macbook. Never had problems with it. I upgraded my memory, b/c I got mine fairly early in the run when the base model (which I have) still had only 512 mb of memory. Only issue was when I screwed up upgrading the memory and went up to 2GB, but installed it wrong--my computer up and died four days later. All I had to do was click it in and everything was back. The keyboard can get a bit manky looking, b/c it's white, but apparently you can get a new wristplate or something--anyone else here know about that?
Time Machine is terrific for backing your stuff up, and there's nothing quite as functional and simple for PCs, at least to my knowledge.
If you play games, you can install Windows XP or Vista on your Macbook and dual boot. In theory you get native or close to native speed. In practice, Macbooks don't have dedicated video cards, so some games could be problematic. I play Civ IV, which requires a video card--I get a warning every time I open it, but I can still get full game play experience. YMMV, though, especially with first person shooters. (I don't dualboot, btw, but my girlfriend does, and she plays Sims on her laptop--I have Civ IV for Mac.)
Anyway, Macbooks are great computers--my girlfriend just got one, and she's really happy, too. There is a bit of a learning curve with switching from Windows, but MacOS is a more intuitive OS in a lot of ways. And, it's much less prone to viruses and spyware than PCs (although less so than it used to be), and really doesn't freeze up.
The only downside is the somewhat hefty price tag, but you get reliability for it, and the ability to really use it out of the box (the only thing I installed was Office).
