Bummer - went to the Apple shop after lunch ...

[OwlHoot]

Spot the poor boy who can't afford the best quality hardware.

Chortle - A few months ago I bought an Alienware M17X , with all top-spec parts, for over £3K. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, cowboy!

(Must admit I had a fair bit of trouble with it, when one of the disks went AWOL. But Dell sent someone round to replace the disk.)

[AtW]

(Must admit I had a fair bit of trouble with it, when one of the disks went AWOL. But Dell sent someone round to replace the disk.)

That was sasguru.

HTH

[doodab]

That was sasguru.

HTH

Sasguru is Dell boy?

[shaunbhoy]

Sasguru is a Dull boy

FTFY

[DaveB]

It cost £1500, which even for Apple can't be a cheapie can it ?

Macbooks start at £867, you'd struggle to spec that up to £1500 unless you went for all the optional software as well. A fully specced Macbook will still only set you back a shade over £1000.

Pro's start at £999 and you can easily spec it well beyond £1500.

All depends on how old it was. A few years old and yes, you could have spent £1500 on a standard Macbook but they cut the range right back and now it's the budget Mac laptop and Pro's are the premium models with all the optional extras.

[scooterscot]

In contrast I bought my first Apple because I'd got sick of Windows, and Linux was still having difficulties with laptop support.

I was definitely impressed with the way that performance got better with each release of OS X - a direct contrast to bloatware stories elsewhere.

And OS X gave me a chance to learn Unix at my own pace. I also found that I didn't need to keep buying extra software to do stuff. When I was using Windows at home, there always seemed to be something extra I needed to buy.

WHS - This is about the same way I fell into using OS X, the hardware was not really all that much an interest to me at the time.

Productivity using OS X for day to day tasks is considerably noticeable

[Moscow Mule]

Why would you buy an ultra-thin netbook for video editing or DVD ripping?

Which was my point...