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!@#$%^&*() said:
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Just hope it holds together and you never have any issues, because if it breaks you get to buy a new one. They build them so poorly that even Apple refuses outright to try to fix them now. Idiots glue everything, cause you know, screws are ugly..
 
Apple Care is pretty good and worth it if you are spending that much on a laptop anyways.
 
silent-circuit said:
Just hope it holds together and you never have any issues, because if it breaks you get to buy a new one. They build them so poorly that even Apple refuses outright to try to fix them now. Idiots glue everything, cause you know, screws are ugly..
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Yea, you just made that up.
 
!@#$%^&*() said:
Yea, you just made that up.
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No, I didn't. Look at a teardown, the battery is glued in and the display housing / display / cover glass / etc is all glued together. Apple will not repair the display portion of the machine, they just take the whole top off and replace it as a unit. This means what should be a $100-200 repair for a new panel and glass becomes a $600+ repair, and I'm not making these numbers up either -- that's based on my experience with a 11" MacBook Air with a broken screen.

Also, I based my "screws are ugly" comment on an interview with one of Apple's designers. They said something to that effect when asked why they were moving away from screws to industrial adhesives despite considerable backlash from the tech community.

compslckr said:
Apple Care is pretty good and worth it if you are spending that much on a laptop anyways.
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No, Apple Care is not that good, it's actually terrible. Any damage to the screen from any source will be deemed "accidental" and not covered. I'm speaking from personal experience here, with a MacBook Air. I also paid for AppleCare, and the damage occurred within the first year of ownership, so it wasn't even used. The machine is a paperweight now and they've refused to even give me the cost of the warranty back, so I'm out around $1300 with nothing to show for it.

A pin-point crack was caused by a grain of sand or some other not readily visible bit of dirt on the wrist rest pressing in to the screen when closed. I'm speculating here as I never actually saw the source of the damage, just noticed the result the next time I opened the machine. There's no gap between the wrist rest and screen, or little rubber bumpers either, unlike... oh, I don't know, every other laptop on the market. Again, idiocy.

Eventually the crack expanded and got so bad the display became unusable. About a month later the machine refused to boot, just white screen, and it hadn't even left my desk during that time -- used with an external display for obvious reasons. When I brought it in to be repaired (told them to ignore the screen, just deal with the other issue) they told me all the water damage indicators had been set off and refused to service it. It was never even near water.


In summary, this is why I will never buy another Apple product, and cannot in good conscience recommend them to anyone. The products, while pretty, are poorly designed, and the company, while they apparently make regular exceptions to policy for many customers, do not for all, and exceptions don't make up for bad policy.
 
If I can move my VM from PC to Mac this might work. Do VMware Workstation and Fusion 5 work seamlessly?

Is Mac really the only option? What happened to workstation grade laptops?
 
There are many high-res laptops coming out with Windows 8. I believe the Lenovo Yoga is one, for example. I am assuming you're referring to 1600x900 or higher?
 
prtzlboy said:
There are many high-res laptops coming out with Windows 8. I believe the Lenovo Yoga is one, for example. I am assuming you're referring to 1600x900 or higher?
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I'd like 1920x1200, at least. But the new Samsung Series 9 is looking very attractive at 2,560 x1,440...

junky said:
so no gaming at all?
you mean high end laptops?
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I have a desktop system to game on. Just looking for a mobile system to work on when out of the office. Problem is I need to actullually work on it, and the current batch of low res laptops are wonderful for gaming and watching movies, but I can't get any work done on them.
 
screen size?

For example:
1. for 13.X" you have the Asus UX32A with excellent screen and powerful enough for office work:
http:///czjc5h2

2. for 15.6" there are some, including the T530:
http:///lenovoT530 - the price has gone up now, but you can wait for coupons
I5-3210M and good 1080p screen.

3. oh, I forgot - the HP dv6z-7000 (now dv6z-7200)
http:///dv6z-7200, very good matte 1080p screen option. This is a new line and still no coupon are available, but you could get the dv6z-7000 with 1080p screen and A10-4600M + backlit keyboard for 700$ now and then.

thoughts?
 
not quite 1920x1200

but the hp envy 15 is very nice with the 1080 screen
Just picked up the envy 15 3047nr , i7 , switchable graphics , 8 gb of ram, 1tb hdd , really smooth laptop with nice build quality . It has been handling my vmware work quite nicely so far after enabling virtualization in the bios.
 
ASUS' second gen 13" UX ultrabook has a better IPS display than anything Apple's put out, outside of the new retina 13"/15" models... Those two are also both near two grand whereas the ASUS is just over a grand, granted they're much higher res whereas the IPS display ASUS uses is "just" 1920x1080.

To make anything higher than that usable at the same size you'd need to interment some of the scaling and software tricks Apple's resorted to with their retina line tho. In general Apple's displays do put to shame the vast majority of the dreck PC manufacturers put out, but there's some gems out there and there's a lot more post-Win 8 models coming out with decent 1080p IPS displays.

I was sold on the UX32 Zenbook but decided to wait for Haswell and stick it out with my old netbook a while longer, my tablet's seeing way more use anyway (though I might swap it for a smaller 7" that better complements a larger tablet).
 
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