Couldn't agree more. I'm using a previous gen MBP and I was fully prepared to sell it to get the latest one, but nope. Just not enough to persuade me so instead I'll most likely got for the MacBook. Problem is the OS Tax is getting bigger and is harder and harder to justify now esp when the misses has just spent £200 less than a Macbook on a Dell which is WAY better speced.
@AndyR "misses has just spent £200 less than a Macbook on a Dell which is WAY better speced."
Well I think that is & has always been the case. But on the plus side hopefully the machine will not get slower everyday for no apparent reason. Of course that's more to do with the OS than the Hardware. Bloody M$, why does my Q6600 run like a 486 after 6 months, I'm just fed up to the eyeballs of having to re-install M$ OS's. Or course there is Linux I suppose.
Funilly enough I was the opposite way around I upgraded from the previous white macbook to the current pro, and unfortuantely what swung it for me was the need for the firewire port for use in audio production. Anything without one is useless for me and USB just isn't an option, one for the money already invested in firewire and two as USB just isn't as reliable for audio.
Having said that it's been a good upgrade, I'm with you on the screen res, it should be higher but the quality of the screen is miles better than that of the macbook with deeper blacks and a much much better viewing angle than on the macbook. As mentioned the build quality is superb and I am really happy with it, just a shame it costs so much money. If they had kept firewire on the macbook no doubt that I would have bought one of those, and if they still had logic for the PC then I may not have bothered at all despite the awesomeness of OS X ;-)
I've never understood what people do to machines that causes them to take drastic measures by choosing to reinstall the OS. Are you using cranky old discs in your PC or something?
In all the years of owning PC's and supporting all my families PC's, I've only ever had to reinstall the OS once (technically speaking it wasn't an reinstall as I removed the disastrous WinME and replaced it with XP on my parents machine).
There's a huge hole in the market for a commerical O/S that tries to do the same thing as Windows (i.e. can be installed on any PC, work with just about all peripherals). Apple aren't competing on that front, and Linux just isn't polished enough, you end up in poorly documented text files far too often. I wonder why commercial Linux distributions have never really hit the sweetspot?
@Steve, people don't have to do anything to there PC's when M$ OS is installed, that was my point. My Vista install is now really starting to feel sluggish, and that's with a Q6600, 2 WD raptors in Raid etc. I'm actually a PC software developer, so it's not like I'm some computer newbie either, It might be because I install/remove lots of software, but that in itself should be no reason why the OS should get more sluggish. It might be because my HD's need a defrag, personally never really noticed a difference doing that. But if your telling me your XP/Vista etc is running like it did when first installed then I'd be mighty surprised.
Having worked in "IT Support" in the past there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that a Windows installation "degrades" with time. I have reached the point where I simply accept this as fact. Setting a day every year or so aside to reinstall Windows pays no end of benefit to the speed of my machine. I'm seriously considering the "move" to Mac, but to be honest the main reason for this is that I'm simply a bit bored of looking at Windows.
@ Keith - My machine is running just as well as when it was first put together, it seriously sounds like you don't know what you're doing when it comes to maintenance, you may be a software developer but seriously what programs do you use for security/cleaning? Loosing that much performance that quickly I doubt you have anything. And it's not like OSX is immune to being slowed down either.
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