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I've been using a macbook (white) for 1,5 year now. Same setup as the one that's advertised, but different graphics card (Intel GMA X3100).
Personally, I'm very happy that I've switched to Mac. It's a lot easier to work with, you don't have to worry about viruses and it looks awesome. I see lots of people are saying you can get a cheaper and better laptop if you compose it yourself. That is probably true, but if you're gonna start doing that you should be sure you know what you're doing. Buying a Mac on the other hand is the perfect example of a "plug & play" product.
When it comes to adapting to mac, I think it's easier to go from a Windows pc to a macbook, than the other way around. Every time I use Windows now I get frustrated ;]
I use MS Office for Mac and I also have a Windows partition. That means that when booting the computer, I can choose to work with Mac and Windows. Mac is excellent but at school we sometimes use freeware, designed by small companies, and they usually don't have a mac variety.
I don't know who said having a Windows partition slows down your computer, but that's bs. The only thing you lose is a couple of gb's of your hard drive. If you'd use PARALLELS (meaning you open Windows whilst operating on the mac os) then your computer will be slowed down by the high RAM usage (running 2 OS's at the same time).
But overall I think it's a good deal (ik ben juist nog naar Fnac geweest, daar stond hij aan ~990€). I don't really like the new look but that's personal. Also, I think they've changed the computer's ports for the worse. I like using Garageband and using both my music input (guitar) and output (speakers) channel. Now those 2 have been combined. Put since I'm guessing you won't be using Garageband it isn't a problem for you.
PS Xillax, Apple has always marketed their products as "fun to work with", which is true btw, but they got iWork too and other srs bsn programs.
This Macbook in the ad is not the newest macbook with the new look but the 1 generation older macbook with the old design. You know it because of the 2.13GHz processor and you can check it here http://www.everymac....ex-macbook.html.
I prefer the old look but it doesn't have the nice glass trackpad with the multi-touch gestures and the unibody design. Also this model comes with Leopard when the new OS from Apple is Snow Leopard. I too run Leopard on my iMac but I'm thinking of upgrading it to Snow Leopard since it only costs 30e.
You can buy yourself Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 and it costs 105e or Apple iWork for 80e that has the counterpart of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. I had the iWork trial and it was very nice to use, you'll get it too if you buy the Macbook. If you already have a Microsoft Office license for Windows I suggest you to install it on your Boot Camp (Windows) partition like I did and use that. Sure you need a Windows license too. Also there are free options like Openoffice and NeoOffice that work on a Mac and can replace Microsoft Office. Generally talking about the software for Mac you will be able to find all Windows counterparts that usually feel even better than the ones you're replacing but if you do CAD you're out of luck. I don't think you do since you didn't mention it so no worries.
if you install Windows on the Macbook along with OS X you will be able to play SOF2 MP Test easily with it and some of the newer games with lower settings. Here are some benchmarks done with that 9400m gfx http://www.notebookc...-G.11949.0.html. You'll be able to play some Windows-only games on OS X with Crossover but it costs a little and the performance is not as good as running the game natively on Windows.
Anyway, the Macbook in the ad is reasonably priced and I think it is a good deal for 699e. I would buy it too if I was looking for a low-cost laptop.
P.S. Once you switch to OS X I don't think you will miss Windows just like Charles told.
Thank you both for the advise. If I have bought it, I will come to you Charles so you can install Windows on it cuz I'm a complete computer noob. xD
