Comments on: The laptop is pretty much dead – I need a MacBook Pro!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:22:06 +0000

If anyone out there is thinking of sending Raul a Macbook Pro, I think you should send him two, so that he can give one to his good friend Beth. =)

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:43:40 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro and naturally I love it. My husband has my old PowerBook, and it’s starting to fade. I was VERY hard on it before I gave it to him. Anyway, he needs to be Mactel to run newer softwares. He wants the black MacBook. They are pretty sweet. Extremely portable at that size.

Welcome to the club!

By: crunchycarpets

crunchycarpets — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:33:47 +0000

Oh I know..I spent an hour or more at Best Buy last night basically fondling the Macs. The massive desktop giant screen of love was sweet…and Adam was in love with the Airbook…ooh man.

And I am a PC user..but for Movie maker alone I would buy one of them.

By: Ryan Cousineau

Ryan Cousineau — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:04:12 +0000

Look at the Mac Books one more time. As nice as the Pro models are, excepting the larger screen size, the performance gaps are very small. Yes, the better graphics card might help (a little) with GIS stuff, but it’s rare indeed that essentially 2D apps are performance-limited by graphics cards of any design.

If nothing else, I’d commend to you a stop at the UBC bookstore or the Apple Store to load Arcview on both machines and test it out.

The sweet spot, in my opinion, would be buying a Mac Book, and then (when you can afford it) get a big outboard monitor for GIS madness. The other advantage is you have a reasonable expectation that your salary will rise over the next two years, so it will be easy to justify an early upgrade to the Mac Whatever at that point.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:10:36 +0000

Raul you would still use an e-machine laptop after you’ve had 4 failures with it?

I’ve worked on e-machines (and sold them) and I would never recommend anyone to get one of those. Though I’m in the same boat as you (more or less) I want a Macbook but don’t have the cash to drop on one. Though my want is more of a ‘looks’ sort of one. I’ve used Macs since my LCIII (68k mac @ 25Mhz!!) and only reason that has stopped me from going back to Mac is that a) Windows based PCs are MUCH cheaper lol c) because of their market share parts are much more readily available and c) how would I game on a Mac when the games don’t come out for the MacOS or are delayed a bit longer than the Windows version?

Why do you want a MacBook Pro? Why not a regular Macbook? ($3000 compared to about $1100?)

If you sign up for PayPal (don’t think you need a credit card to accept payments/donations) but they could then click on a link with a specified donation value or enter their own value and send money to you that too. Image $1 a person for 1000 people? lol you’d get there in no time!
Though if you’re looking to monetize your blog you’ll have a much easier time doing it by self-hosting WordPress ($6/month bluefur hosting can be done!).

By: Tawcan

Tawcan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:58:18 +0000

Or you just need to find yourself a secret admirer and get her to send you a macbook pro hehe.

I’ve been wanting a laptop for over 2 years now. Still stuck on a desktop. Since I hate Vista with a passion looks like I’ll be going down to the Mac path as well…unless I become even nerdier and jump on the Linux bandwagon.