I use my netbook.

and didnt pay $2000+ dollars for a facebook/note taking machine

why can't they do the same for the phones :/ battery dies so quick.

"MBP" as you call it:
2.4ghz i5
4gb ddr3 1333mhz
500gb hdd
13" screen
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$1399

Toshiba:
2.4ghz i5
4gb ddr3 1333mhz
500gb hdd
15" screen
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$669

HALF the cost, same hardware, larger screen.
You can easily buy a high capacity battery, carry bag, mouse and A WHOLE ******* DESKTOP PC for the difference in cost, for what is essentially the same computer.
Quit talking out of your arse.

As a Mac and Windows user for the better part of 5 years, I can say they both have advantages and disadvantages.

Mac
Debatable, but personally I see OSX as the best operating system - it is UNIX with a cute UI. It is impractical (read: SHITHOUSE) for development and professional gaming, however, it excels with creative based tasks such as graphic design and web design - the OS is designed for aesthetics and it complements these tasks.

As for the hardware, lets face it, you're paying for the brand - Apple is a software company, they use other companies hardware, stick it all in a bunch of very good looking aluminium and put an Apple logo on it. Upset over this? **** off, that is capitalism and business at its best. If it weren't for "markup", our capitalist society wouldn't exist...

If you don't like it, don't pay for it - simple as that.

Windows

In its 500th iteration and still riddled with issues - not to mention the MS sys admin's attitude towards problems that always shits me: "You should all use windows, you shouldn't be allowed to use Mac or an iPhone!"

All in all, I love Windows for gaming and development, Windows 7 is clean, crisp and gets the job done. I also like the fact that there are no license agreements restricting what hardware it can be used on lol (OSX: the reason it "just works" is because Apple don't have to account for every different type of hardware available).

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OP: Install Windows 7 using the Bootcamp Utility (Applications/Utilities/Bootcamp.app) and play your Windows game that way.

In answer to your question, no, there are no applications that can port game engines on the fly.

Markup as much as 300% on old gear.

Right.

It's slightly painful to see clueless gits buy them thinking they're getting a premium computer.

But then, it's not my money so why should I care if people keep feeding the dragon.

Quite the ******ed fanboi aren't you?
It's hard to take your post seriously when there's so much wrong with it, but then again this is the usual apple fan bullshit.

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He makes logical arguments... did a Mac rape your mum in front of you or something?

No he just likes to shutdown idiots.

He needs a staff role

Fairly sure I also said to take other things into account other than internal hardware. But oh well, focus on one aspect.

What, like "general engineering"?

Like battery life, performance for weight, and yes engineering of the product. Currently, Macbook Pros are the only laptops I have seen where you can lift the lid with one finger and don't have to hold down the rest of it. Just simple shit like that. Anyone can chuck some hardware in a shitty plastic case with a shit screen and be cheaper.

You mean how ultrabooks are common now? Battery life is meaninglessly close between macos and windows notebooks? Then you have how no macbook or laptop will stand up to the same punishment or last longer on average than one another?

You mean how equal they are in all those areas, right? Isn't that what you mean? Right? You mean how price is the one thing that objectively separates them right? That's what you meant right? Cause you couldn't possibly mean that apple are better at all those things and everything costing at least twice the price sometimes way ******* more compensates for a logo right? Because that would make you stupid.

I can't even make sense of your opening sentence. So I will go with no...

I am saying, for what I needed my laptop for (4 years old and still going strong mind you) those were the factors I used to decide what I would buy. I also needed something light for the performance (this ruled out most companies), with a dedicated GPU and 2.4GHz dual core processor in 2008 for under 2.5 kg was damn good. It suited my needs perfectly and better than others could, that's why I bought it.

I did not buy it because of their branding, logo or any of that other shit. I bought it because I genuinely believed it to be the better product for what I needed. Yes, there are stupid people that will go out and buy it because it looks pretty and only use it for Facebook; your point? Different laptops are aimed at different users, some buy them for different reasons. If the product satisfies these reasons, it is a good product in their eyes. That's all that matters.

"I didn't read your post, let me repeat what I just said."

That's essentially what you just wrote.

Ultrabooks (slim, light weight notebooks) are common, battery life is comparable and so is build quality - therefore apple's higher prices are completely avoidable even if your needs are met by an apple notebook, because there is a much cheaper alternative that offers the exact same qualities with a better OS, and if you really want mac OS you can just install it on your ******* cheaper notebook, can't you?