Originally Posted by
JerseyVics
lots of Apple supporters here... my HP DV4000 is on its way out and while I'm not exactly in the market for a new laptop I will be forced to buy one sooner rather than later.
I have been considering a Macbook, but not sure if I can be without all the Windows features/programs I'm used to... what is the convincing factor to most to go Apple and justify the price difference over a comparable laptop?
Just to reiterate. I run VMWare Fusion on all of my Macs and run a Windows OS on that. The performance is great and it lets me have the best of both worlds. I use the Mac OS for most things, but for the odd program that I dont like in the Mac version, I just start Fusion and run it in there in Windows. I typically put it in full screen mode and have use the Mac windowing system behind it. So I have a PC in one of my screens and click on the screen icon and can zoom back to the Mac screens. Also, I find the Mac tools (free) for accessing Linux/Unix/Solaris servers to be very nice.
Macs are basically real computers, a Unix variant, with a really great windowing environment/user interface, and extremely good build quality.