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i ordered a new macbook pro a couple days ago. honestly, as far as laptops go(which are much harder to build yourself then desktops) apple makes a very good product. a little expensive, yea, but so are high end Sony and Alienware laptops. You are not only buying a machine, you are buying into an echo system(OS), support, warranty, etc.
my main desktop machine runs windows 7, and honestly i feel a lot more productive on my mac, due to the way the OS is setup. which is why i opted to re-up on osx over windows. i can easily make up the cost difference, in productivity. i find that windows slows down and needs reinstalls and defragging(etc, etc) a lot more often then my mac. my macbook pro has lasted my four years now, without issue, and is still a pretty strong machine. no windows laptop ive owned compares, and ive had some very high end windows laptops in the past. as a developer, the very large developer community on OSX also makes for a lot of nice tools. as well as i can run a lot of unix commands on my mac, this makes computing/developing easier, unless of course i need to write code for windows.
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