I was in the market for a laptop with a long battery life. I was seriously considering, a mac because they look cool are well built and have the desired battory life. Having never used a mac before I had no idea how much they cost, so I went in to the local Mac shop and enquired. The lowest price I could get was 900 quid _with_ a educational discount. I was truly shocked (and spent the rest of the day wondering why anybody would get one). Out of interest, I enquired how much it would cost with a two gig ram upgrade, a bag and a copy of word. The answer was well over a grand. I then went in to curries.digital and asked if they had a laptop with a 4+ hour battery and they laughed and said "only when they are switched off". So then I read the registers review of netbooks, and realised that I do not need to do video editing or 3d graphics rendering and alike I only write word documents and surf the web. So I plumpted for a netbook. Which is over three times cheaper than the mac, does not have a bloated copy of windows on it does just what I want. I seriously think MS and Apple have to get there act together, bigger and faster is no longer better.
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2 grand you have to be kidding
I was in the market for a laptop with a long battery life. I was seriously considering, a mac because they look cool are well built and have the desired battory life. Having never used a mac before I had no idea how much they cost, so I went in to the local Mac shop and enquired. The lowest price I could get was 900 quid _with_ a educational discount. I was truly shocked (and spent the rest of the day wondering why anybody would get one). Out of interest, I enquired how much it would cost with a two gig ram upgrade, a bag and a copy of word. The answer was well over a grand. I then went in to curries.digital and asked if they had a laptop with a 4+ hour battery and they laughed and said "only when they are switched off". So then I read the registers review of netbooks, and realised that I do not need to do video editing or 3d graphics rendering and alike I only write word documents and surf the web. So I plumpted for a netbook. Which is over three times cheaper than the mac, does not have a bloated copy of windows on it does just what I want. I seriously think MS and Apple have to get there act together, bigger and faster is no longer better.