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I need to get a new computer for school. Are Macbooks worth the money?
Macbook computers hardly ever get infected with viruses; they used to be virus free.
Hackers are more than making up for that fact.
The Macbook has excellent customer service and support.
All Apple products do.
The computer is a lovely piece of engineering.
If aesthetics matter that much to you, pay less for a laptop and get a pretty skin for
it.
You’re getting under my skin. Macbooks are the go to laptop for the creative class.
They don’t put the SPARC processors in the computers anymore; that is one headache since
it makes it harder to do design graphics and music.
You don’t have to spend as much time configuring Apple computers as Microsoft ones.
It comes with lots of pre-installed software and you have fewer options when you want to
upgrade or install different apps.
They’re incredibly convenient.
Is that convenience worth an extra $800 for a PC? That’s more than some lower end computers
cost.
The retina scanner is a cool security feature.
Hope it works if you wear colored contacts or have pink eye. And someone, somewhere,
is already working on a hack straight out of the Minority Report movie.
Oh, gosh, not gouging out my eyes for a computer!
Or just a fake eyeball or plastic retina.
Where would they get my retina pattern?
Since Apple, Google and Microsoft share everything with the NSA, they could hack the NSA database
to get it.
I’m pretty sure the NSA database is secure.
Fine, get into the Internet backbone and get the data as it is sent to Apple or from Apple
to the NSA.
What’s your solution then?
Cheap laptops with Unix on them, replaced as necessary. And I can run Apple software
in a virtual machine if necessary.
Why not a Microsoft laptop?
The lower cost isn’t worth the pain of Windows 8. I’d have a Macbook before dealing with
that disaster.