infra_red_dude said:
yeah rite! all our decisions till today haf been foolish coz most of us hafn't bought the imac or the macbook or the mac pro or the ipod or are not planning to buy the iphone... and the list goes on and on and on.....for not using apple products! thats ridiculous man! u haf no right to term someone's purchase as intelligent or not. what mite be a good buy for me mite be a foolish buy for u and vice versa. its not correct to say it in public. if u think so then keep it to urself! if u haf something to say abt apple's product in comparison then point out its virtues in this context comparing wid the laptops Chirag has mentioned. dun pass comments like these! u sound like a "mac sales agent" why u say "So who are we to force it upon them."
No, the reason all your "decisions till today haf been foolish" is because when you compare Macs to computers from other companies, you compare just the hardware and the relative price. In this sort of a comparison, Apple's computers will almost always lose in the lower price segment, albeit by a small margin.
However, no one takes into account the most important factor which is, and always has been,
Mac OS X. As long as Macs are the only computers that run Mac OS X, they will always have the edge over normal computers. Always.
For example, my teacher just bought a laptop. He bought a laptop with lower specifications that had Vista Home Premium installed and was more expensive than a laptop that had higher specifications but had Windows XP Media Center installed. Why? Because he believes (and rightly so) that Windows Vista is a better operating system. He was ready to make the sacrifice of a little more money and a little performance to have the latest in technology.
However, this same person would not even consider Macs, even though the MacBook was well within his budget. If he would not have been my teacher, I would say he was stupid.
Most people do not realise that at the end of the day it is not the hardware that matters, it is the software that is going to be much more useful.
If you start a thread here and Mac users would just point out one advantage of Mac OS X in every post, it would easily cross a total of two hundred posts. Even today, after having used Mac OS X for more than eight months, I constantly discover astonishingly simple new features that have been there in the operating system by default all along.
Mac OS X is better, loads better, and it will always be.
Now, if we could steer back to the topic please and let the thread starter get on with his HP vs. Lenovo query.
