I bought a macbook pro

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I bought a macbook pro

I hate you.

It's so damn sexy, dual booting with Windows 7, of course.

I bought a Asus G51-Vx . Dual booting Win 7  with Leopard 10.5.8 :)

Too fat and non-sexy/slim.

the microphone and camera are much better on the new macbook pro than on the older one.  The touchpad works really nice too.  

I'm waiting for Windows 7 to launch and getting a multitouch netbook though.  

Netbooks are pointless and a step back in portable computer design, why would you even want one?     

Instead of inovating by designing better cases and batteries laptop manufacturers are just making netbooks.  I'm not an apple guy, I would never buy an apple desktop, but when it comes to laptops they are just brilliant, they have designed their cases to be able to cram in high end laptop components very tightly, the 13" MBP is about 20% bigger than a netbook and has components that are actually worth a shit, it manages to be so much smaller than other laptops not by going with shit components but by simply not wasting any space in the case, most laptop cases have alot of dead air and plastic.  

The new battery design is also crazy, I'm getting around 8 hours on mine which is amazing considering a 2.53ghz core 2 duo, 4GB ram, Geforce 9400, and 300GB HDD, that's better than most netbooks that use components that are many times less powerful.

And let's not even mention the macbook air...

"Netbooks are pointless and a step back in portable computer design, why would you even want one?"

Because they're cheap, small (obviously) and (providing you pick and choose) very serviceable as secondary/on-the-go computers. I'm using one to update Flytrap (i.e. play Flash games, edit images, access the web and type stuff) at the mo, and while I wouldn't want to be lumped with it full-time it's a good stop gap. Macbook Pros are awesome, but they cost a fair bit.

They aren't that much more expensive, especially if you buy them at the right time.

13" Macbook Pro with the new OS X 10.6 is $1200, if you're a student you get $100 off and a free ipod touch.  If you're not a student either take an old college ID or just take a random friend/relative that is a student and say you're buying it for him, the transaction will still be in the name of the person who's paying for it.

I'm actually using the ipod touch, but if I wasn't it would be easy to sell it for $150-$200 on ebay, which would drive the overall price down to $900.

A 14" Dell Studio with similiar features (new OS [windows 7], backlit keyboard, geforce 9400m, etc) comes out at about $974 at dell.com, and that's after the $140 rebate they have going on right now.

Only problem is aesthetically the dell looks like shit compared to the MBP, it's big and clunky, and the battery life is 4 hours instead of 8.   Even without the ipod promotion going on it's still $1100 vs $974, and to get 8 hours of battery on the dell you need to buy a 2nd battery which is like another $100, so it's about the same anyway.

Anyway my point is, macbooks are only marginally more expensive than an equally equipped laptop.  Yeah you can get a piece of shit barebones dell laptop for $500, but... it's a piece of shit. 

I don't want a regular netbook.  I want a touchscreen and I want it to be able to fold up with the screen showing and stuff.  

I'm thinking about getting this one.
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/productt91.aspx?n=0
When Windows 7 comes out they are releasing the multitouch version.  It's $500.

Before I was thinking this one
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
Which would be $400 with the keyboard thing.
but I don't think that one is powerful enough.  I want to be able to play movies at the full resolution of the screen and whatnot and that doesn't even have a webcam built in.  


After I get it I'm going to get a USB GPS receiver, which are only like $30, and use it as a GPS.

I'll use it to check emails and browse the nets, also instant messaging and skype video calls.  Perhaps watch some movies on.  So I don't really need too much speed.  

I won't do much gaming on it except maybe StarCraft because it's the best game ever made and you're all nubs.

That Eee PC is whack, or something. But are you sure you really need something like that just for Skype, email, MSN and movies? A decent smartphone would offer the same functionality (other than the screen size, obviously) for much less.

The Acer Aspire One netbook I'm typing this on cost £300 (around $490), and for that you get 1 GB RAM, a 1.6 Ghz processor, 160 GB HD, three USB slots, a webcam and a 6-7 hour battery. I've got Dungeon Keeper 2 and Ground Control running on it. Good times :)

Edwin


That Eee PC is whack, or something. But are you sure you really need something like that just for Skype, email, MSN and movies? A decent smartphone would offer the same functionality (other than the screen size, obviously) for much less.

The Acer Aspire One netbook I'm typing this on cost £300 (around $490), and for that you get 1 GB RAM, a 1.6 Ghz processor, 160 GB HD, three USB slots, a webcam and a 6-7 hour battery. I've got Dungeon Keeper 2 and Ground Control running on it. Good times :)

I want to be able to do them all at once.  Video chat, instant messaging, and web browsing, and playing starcraft would suck pretty hard on a smart phone.

/parts waves of spam like Moses parting the Red Sea

Bit more clarification for you - http://games.kikizo.com/news/200909/kikizo-relaunching-in-november.asp

Only a few weeks to go...

If you don't assign a mod to delete all the spam, nothing you do here will amount to jack shit.

All in good time, mate. There's no point crusading against the spammers till we've stitched all the backend stuff together.

I agree it's getting pretty ridiculous in here though...

so what's the new name going to be?

Something much more transparent, basically :)

TELL US RAWR

NEIN.

How about you try to guess it? I'll give you a hint: three words.

KEN - Kikizo Entertainment Network