This setup gives you the best of both worlds minus the cost. The retail OSX will just cost you about 5000 bucks. Setting it up is another thing though.

The problem with MS and PC manufacturers is that they sell affordable laptops with substandard specs with Vista running on top. And they wonder why people complain that Vista is slow.

Look at it from this point of view:

Apple does not charge an exorbitant amount for a laptop that has very good specs. Apple is merely ensuring that at the price you get and pay for, you are getting value because it performs well enough for your tasks and does thus your computer will not slow you down.

Why should I pay for a brand new 40K PHP laptop with a generation old Core 2 Duo with only 1GB of RAM with Vista Premium running on top? That just doesn’t make sense. Everyone knows that Vista eats approximately 60% of RAM after it starts up.

At least when I buy a 71K PHP Aluminum MacBook, I am getting the newest Core 2 Duo processor with at least 2GB of RAM, iLife and a pretty looking computer that is sleek and solid – not that flimsy plastic! The OS performs as it should and does not get in the way of a user and it’s virtually a worry-free experience

Sales tax is charged for internet orders if the merchant where you ordered has a business presence or is registered in the state you are getting the item shipped to.

Dell likely has presence in all 50 states.

Buy from Amazon, they only charge in WA, ID and a couple other places.

Oh, and I’m a Mac user.

I don’t have any problems with fixing my own problems in my system. Mac are just not affordable for me. If money is not a problem, I’ll buy one. and I will not say because PC is crap,shit,virus-loaded,unstable or whatever.

If you’ve got money to burn they good for you, I just don’t really see why mac users are hostile towards such a simple ad… which states the a fact.

I’m sorry to offend Mac users but I can’t really get the wisdom why you need to purchase a 50k+ laptop when you can purchase a 30k laptop with powerful specs. If you’re looking for music or video editing capability, buy a software and upgrade the laptop instead of spending tons on Mac.

In which case, Im not cool enough for a Core 2 duo lappy, but just around cool enough for that purty HP 2140 you posted a few days back.

Netbooks will rule the world!
(Our your local starbucks, same difference)

Sooo… im not a mac person although I give apple a 5-star for their safari browser. I find it very easy to use compared to the buffed firefox. I love the aesthetic design of MAC note/netbooks but the OS is confusing for a windows guy.

I bought a Blue PC last year, which came with Windows Vista Starter Edition. Know what? I don’t use Vista. First thing I did was to partition the drive, allocate the bare minimum that Vista would allow for it, and use the rest as an Ubuntu (Linux Mint distro) partition.

I keep Windows for those programs that won’t run on anything else. But otherwise, my online life revolves around my Linux partition now – the iBook works as my writing/graphics workhorse. With the recession, Apple has priced itself out of my budget, so I’m glad I have the old thing, which never gave me a minute’s trouble.