why so much hate for macbooks?

[QUOTE="ULYSSES2004"]have a good day sir?? lol i love how you speak... i was relying on an article?? have you not understood i am talking about my own experience?? you must be more ignorant than i originally thought... i guess i should just let you be... good day to you too sir, and please do say hello to George Banks if you see him... taraaaa lolMakari

I have an older Intel Mac Mini I use for internet and MS Office plus I like having other OSes besides Windows. It's an okay computer although not really something to brag about.

Beats me why people here hate Macs (not just MacBooks) in general. You'd think it one ate their firstborn or something. Of course, there's also the snooty Mac zealots whose noses are stuck so high up. I guess the two groups cancel each other out. One zealot to another.

jun_aka_pekto

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Good portable gaming laptops don't really exist. If you want to play the latest games, you'll have to buy a big desktop replacer that you don't want to carry around and isn't as powerful as a desktop - yet costs more. If you want portability, you'll have to settle for a small screen and low end hardware - and still pay a fortune. The best choice in my opinion is to buy a DS. It's cheap, is extremely portable, has great battery and has a great library of games. The second best choice is to buy a netbook or some other small and inexpensive laptop, and play classic titles from the 90s. Unless of course, you have $2000 laying around for a top of the line Toshiba.sSubZerOo

My friend got a gaming laptop for $900.. Asus.. 360m Nvidia card.. Powerful processor.. At least 4 gigs of ram if memory serves.. Also a 17.6" screen.. Now with this thing he can play games like Crysis amazingly well at high settings.. So no your incorrect there.. You can get a really good laptop for around $900 to $1400.. Not $2000..

Beats me why people here hate Macs (not just MacBooks) in general.

jun_aka_pekto

People hate popular things that are overrated by fans. Simple as that. And people don't necessarily hate MacBooks, most people here just simply agree that they're a poor choice if you have any intention to game.

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Beats me why people here hate Macs (not just MacBooks) in general.

KHAndAnime

People hate popular things that are overrated by fans. Simple as that. And people don't necessarily hate MacBooks, most people here just simply agree that they're a poor choice if you have any intention to game.

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Beats me why people here hate Macs (not just MacBooks) in general.

ULYSSES2004

People hate popular things that are overrated by fans. Simple as that. And people don't necessarily hate MacBooks, most people here just simply agree that they're a poor choice if you have any intention to game.

No portability? My friend brings his ASUS laptop everywhere he goes. Its a poor choice for gaming because its GPU is weak. His ASUS laptop will run circles around your Mac.

Macs are vastly overpriced and just as equally overrated. I do hate Macs. Its aimed towards idiots and Apple fanatics, just like iPods. Sorry but paying far more for far less just isn't my thing.

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People hate popular things that are overrated by fans. Simple as that. And people don't necessarily hate MacBooks, most people here just simply agree that they're a poor choice if you have any intention to game.

ChubbyGuy40

No portability? My friend brings his ASUS laptop everywhere he goes. Its a poor choice for gaming because its GPU is weak. His ASUS laptop will run circles around your Mac.

Macs are vastly overpriced and just as equally overrated. I do hate Macs. Its aimed towards idiots and Apple fanatics, just like iPods. Sorry but paying far more for far less just isn't my thing.

so a 17 inch gaming laptop is better?? with no portability why not just get a desktop?? i still do not understand why it is a poor choice if you want to game... i game on my mac whit no problems... just get bootcamp and you can play all the games you want and have the portability and quality of a mac... ULYSSES2004

See, but you're comparing very different things. You say 17 inch is too big and you should get a smaller mac. But there's another choice.

How about for the price of that smaller mac you get an equally small non-mac and save hundreds of dollars, and still get better performance and/or battery life? You're bringing your subjective preferences about build quality into the discussion, but that takes no one nowhere, because not everyone will have your taste. All we can discuss is objective facts like processor speed, battery mileage (through quantitative mAh comparisons, not personal experiences), etc.

Most people wouldn't be willing to pay $500 for a backlit logo and a case made of aluminium if they were given the choice between two otherwise equal laptops. The thing is, Apple's marketing strategy is very effective, and that makes people buy their expensive items regardless of its inherent poor value, and still be happy about their choice.

I take my hat off for Apple, and in no way do I hate them (as you keep suggesting), I just value my hard-earned money and want to get the most out of it.

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[QUOTE="ULYSSES2004"] so a 17 inch gaming laptop is better?? with no portability why not just get a desktop?? i still do not understand why it is a poor choice if you want to game... i game on my mac whit no problems... just get bootcamp and you can play all the games you want and have the portability and quality of a mac... ULYSSES2004

No portability? My friend brings his ASUS laptop everywhere he goes. Its a poor choice for gaming because its GPU is weak. His ASUS laptop will run circles around your Mac.

Macs are vastly overpriced and just as equally overrated. I do hate Macs. Its aimed towards idiots and Apple fanatics, just like iPods. Sorry but paying far more for far less just isn't my thing.

[QUOTE="Makari"][QUOTE="ULYSSES2004"]have a good day sir?? lol i love how you speak... i was relying on an article?? have you not understood i am talking about my own experience?? you must be more ignorant than i originally thought... i guess i should just let you be... good day to you too sir, and please do say hello to George Banks if you see him... taraaaa lolULYSSES2004

so (the acer i mentioned) has the same processor (if 15" MBP, more powerful if 13"), a more powerful graphics card, is *lighter* (if 15" MBP), has about an hour or two less battery life - which is attributable to OSX vs. Win7, the 15" MBP we use has about the same battery life under Windows. the touchpad/keyboard aren't as nice on the acer (honestly, only thinkpads hang in the keyboard realm, and that's subjective), and the rest of the design's a wash to me - i like both a lot. and the acer costs $400 or so less (if 13" base model C2D, $1200 less if 15" w/ same i5).

you pretty clearly implied that there are only a couple options that kind of sucked, while you obviously never noticed options like this that *did* hit all the checkboxes for what you listed you were looking for. hence, incomplete personal experience. it's like only visiting Iowa and then stating that all of North America is flat. you just missed some stuff.

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[QUOTE="ULYSSES2004"] so a 17 inch gaming laptop is better?? with no portability why not just get a desktop?? i still do not understand why it is a poor choice if you want to game... i game on my mac whit no problems... just get bootcamp and you can play all the games you want and have the portability and quality of a mac... ULYSSES2004

No portability? My friend brings his ASUS laptop everywhere he goes. Its a poor choice for gaming because its GPU is weak. His ASUS laptop will run circles around your Mac.

Macs are vastly overpriced and just as equally overrated. I do hate Macs. Its aimed towards idiots and Apple fanatics, just like iPods. Sorry but paying far more for far less just isn't my thing.

Around 2-3 hours gaming. Turn down the brightness and you can control the amount of power it receives I believe. Great for our LAN parties though/

Yes you are paying more for less. Less compatibility and less power. There really is no good advantage. This quality you speak of, what is it? Judging their other products, I doubt theres any real quality to be had here that can't be had for much less. Don't say "BUT TEH BOOTCAMP" cause that destroys the reason of buying a Mac.

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[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Good portable gaming laptops don't really exist. If you want to play the latest games, you'll have to buy a big desktop replacer that you don't want to carry around and isn't as powerful as a desktop - yet costs more. If you want portability, you'll have to settle for a small screen and low end hardware - and still pay a fortune. The best choice in my opinion is to buy a DS. It's cheap, is extremely portable, has great battery and has a great library of games. The second best choice is to buy a netbook or some other small and inexpensive laptop, and play classic titles from the 90s. Unless of course, you have $2000 laying around for a top of the line Toshiba.ULYSSES2004

My friend got a gaming laptop for $900.. Asus.. 360m Nvidia card.. Powerful processor.. At least 4 gigs of ram if memory serves.. Also a 17.6" screen.. Now with this thing he can play games like Crysis amazingly well at high settings.. So no your incorrect there.. You can get a really good laptop for around $900 to $1400.. Not $2000..

Because you can't move a desk top around? .. Furthermore please tell me what macbook you have, whats its hardware stats and how much did it cost.. I don't understand because whenever I use a laptop, I am next to outlet.. And serioulsy tell me the stats I could use a good giggle of your supposed 13" macbook playing Crysis well.

You're comparing Macs with pretty terrible computers. Alienware is a joke.

PCs have a LOT more change to have crappy ones, because there are so many of them out there. The only thing that runs OS X is a Mac, making Apple the only one that makes them.

There are plenty of quality laptops that are cheaper and out-preform a macbook. And out-preform isn't simply faster, out-preform as in, good battery life, good keyboard, all that jazz.

And dude, you totally shattered your credibility when you out right stated yourself that you had little knowledge in the matter, and when you were called out of it, denied it. Oh yeah, also that whole saying that people hate on macs because they can't afford it. Pretty terrible, too. And like ChubbyGuy40 pointed out above, one of your main arguments is that you can use Boot Camp, which kind of defeats the purpose of a mac.

why i dislike like macs, you pay 1k for 400 dollars of hard ware, i would probley buy a macbook but i can't justify 500 dollars for an os

overpriced, underpowered, denting, overheating, false claims of OS security, glossy screen, no touchpad buttons, bad keyboard (imo), non-removable battery, inferior Foxconn parts, and OS X is really really really bad (again, imo).