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I'll agree with you there. The MacBooks are a definite step down in quality from the old Powerbooks and probably from the new MacBook Pros as well. I guess Apple had to make sacrifices to hit that price point. It's one of the reasons I ended up with a Toshiba laptop. Not that it's amazing or anything but at the lower price point there's not much of a difference and with the addition of having to buy XP so I could run Mobius (at the time there was no Mac port) it ended up looking like a drop in quality from the Pros and a higher overall cost. The Macbook we have is doing well, but it's my wife's and doesn't get much wear and tear. I think that's what it was designed to be: cute, easy to use but not a serious computer for someone who's using it for live music. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Warren Sirota<wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I don't know if I'd call Macs any more delicate than your average off >> the self "let's build it with what ever components are the cheapest >> this week" PC. I had Macs at a job for 8 years and it was a running >> joke with the IT guys that I had gone the longest in the company >> without needing them for anything. Everyone else was on a Dell. > > that was my experience with my previous PowerBook G4 Titanium or >whatever it > was, but not my MacBook. It will be going in shortly for it's 2nd > motherboard replacement, due to a failing usb port (first was a failing >fw > port). I'm tough on my ports, I admit, but all laptops seem to have a >design > flaw there - if any of the ports go, it takes a new mb to repair. > > applecare is the saving grace, tho. I think that all laptops need >insurance, > primarily because of this port thing, but in my experience, the applecare > service goes so far beyond anything you'll find from a windows vendor's > outsource network that it's a whole different class of service. plus you >can > call them with any mac question whatsoever and they'll usually answer it, > and be nice to you in the process. > > > > -- > Warren > http://www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=6679 > http://www.warrensirota.com >