Mac Book Pro pricing streets ahead of PC laptops

[David Magahy]

There is a new game in town. Custom build a Dell or Acer laptop on their respective websites for your country... and prepare to be shocked by the cost of their laptops which closely match the specs of the new 15.4 inch Mac Book Pros.

I've just been playing this game on the Australian websites and find both Dell and Acer to be 25% plus more expensive, and this isn't including the value of the iLife products on the Mac. For a start both companies have few, if any, duo 2 cores above 2.0GHz clock speed. Add in bluetooth, larger than their standard hard drives, extra RAM, (I tried 2Mb to equal the standard Apple offering and then also made it up to 4Gb to equate to what I paid). WOW! Now we are the cheapies. Fire the results back to the PC sheeple next time you are talking to them.

BTW, the game should have a name, shouldn't it? Any thoughts? G-rated only of course!

[Martin_Kristiansen]

I played the game and am now the owner of a MacBook pro running XP. Very pleased with it. The reason I went the XP route is Adobe allows you to load photoshop on a laptop and desktop machine with one license and I have CS3 for PC on a home machine

[John_Vito]

Just confirming you findings!

Found the same thing last week and was very surprised.

[Peter_White]

Originally Posted by Martin_Kristiansen

I played the game and am now the owner of a MacBook pro running XP. Very pleased with it. The reason I went the XP route is Adobe allows you to load photoshop on a laptop and desktop machine with one license and I have CS3 for PC on a home machine

Should you ever decide to go all Mac, Adobe will send you the Mac version of CS3 for only the cost of shipping, about $10 I think. I've just ordered a Mac Pro with all the trimmings. The decision to switch from Windows to the Mac was a no brainer once I found out my huge investment in Adobe products was safe. I got all new Mac CS3 software, Web Premium, and Indesign, just for the shipping cost. I just have to destroy the Windows versions and send a letter to Adobe to that effect.

[Ed Gerson]

[quote=Peter_White;452463]Should you ever decide to go all Mac, Adobe will send you the Mac version of CS3 for only the cost of shipping, about $10 I think.

$10?? I have PS on a Mac and last year added a desktop PC,

Adobe would gladly sell me a new copy of PS for the PC for the full retail price just like they sold me a copy of PS for the Mac at full retail price.

[Noel_Carboni]

I'm not one to be negative generally, but I would not recommend a Dell laptop. I bought a high-end model for my son for something like $3500 a little over 4 years ago and it's had to have everything replaced at least once (the first was DOA in the box, then they had to replace the hard drive 3 times, twice the main board, 3 times the video display, you get the idea). Thank goodness I bought the 4 year "anything goes" protection plan. Now that the plan's just expired, I'm dreading the next failure.

Dell will have a lot of confidence rebuilding to do before their laptops are worth considering in my book.

Now their workstations on the other hand are excellent.

-Noel

[Noel_Carboni]

By the way, another option is to run one of the emulators on one's Mac, something like Parallels or VMWare. That gives you the ability to run Mac OSX and Windows apps simultaneously.

-Noel