Reply to: macbook air 13" vs. vaio 16"

[BdP]

How about you be a deaf-mute with no fingers for a bit?

YOU can FINGER me ANYTIME (LOL!) Anytime, you sexy beast.

[d000hg]

I'll be who you want me to be, Big Boy ....

How about you be a deaf-mute with no fingers for a bit?

[BdP]

Are you kandr?

I'll be who you want me to be, Big Boy ....

[d000hg]

Are you kandr?

[BdP]

Crikey! not had much fun with the macs have you my experience ha been the exact opposite of yours.

You are probably only using yours for kids stuff, like colouring in.

[Moscow Mule]

Do Mac laptops take standard laptop batteries?

There is no such thing as a standard laptop battery. Each company puts them in their own package. Apple have taken to putting the cells throughout the machine rather than having a removable battery.

Yes!

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Crikey! not had much fun with the macs have you my experience ha been the exact opposite of yours.

[BdP]

Once you've had Mac you'll never go back.

Incorrect. I would never buy one again.

[BdP]

Sorry BdP but the new Air doesn't have a hard drive. It's SSD all the way, chips directly on the mainboard.

I would recommend running Windows on your shiny new Mac, either through Parallels or dual-booting through Bootcamp.

It does have a motherboard, though.... They are overrated pants.

[scooterscot]

Once you've had Mac you'll never go back.

I've replaced the battery on my Macbook pro about a year ago, they are only good for around 1000 charges.

You'll not find the OS slowing down anything like a windows machine but if you are attacking the drive lot then keep of a copy disc warrior to hand...

Parallels is good however I recommend giving Crossover a try also, quicker and takes up less space, and you do not need to have a copy of windows as Crossover runs the exe directly.

[d000hg]

Sorry BdP but the new Air doesn't have a hard drive. It's SSD all the way, chips directly on the mainboard.

I would recommend running Windows on your shiny new Mac, either through Parallels or dual-booting through Bootcamp.

[BdP]

Switch to the dark side - you won't regret it.
Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac...

Yes!

And be prepared for a battery recall, because it may cause a fire. A motherboard recall - probably for the same thing. The hard drive to pack up - twice. The DVD/RW drive to do nothing of the sort. To pay out 60 quid for a MAC account, or all of the iLife stuff complains that you do not have a "mobile.me" account. The core dumps, the expensive software, the expense of just running the thing.

Seriously, if you are going to buy one of these overhyped POS, then create an order on the apple site, give a phone number , but do not submit. If you get a call within a few days from their Irish call centre, offering a discount, then beware, because a major upgrade to the one you are about to buy is a month or so away and they want to get rid of 'old' stock.

Oh, and their arrogant "customer service", and their smug 'genius bars'.

Please, don't do it. If you want a unix workstation, convert your existing x86 laptop to Linux.

Oh, and never, never, never attempt to install Oracle on the non server version of max OSX.

Avoid

[BigTime]

Mac it is then. It's your fault if I hate it.

[Dearnla]

Switch to the dark side - you won't regret it.
Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac...

[Support Monkey]

Been using Vaios for years and never had any problem

you must be the only one, seriously I am sure there may be good ones out there but everyone i deal with and anyone else who i have known who had one have always complained about them (build quality, problems, customer service, expensive to repair), for the price i think there poor its definately a case of paying for the name

[fckvwls]

Wife had a vaio that literally fell apart in front of her eyes so I second the poor build quality comment. Currently have a top of the range acer and it's very good for the money I paid.