<p>Johnson thats pretty much it. That and people who will be booting into windows the majority of the time. </p>
<p>If someone prefers OSX then by all means they should get it. But if they are not particular to either or I would suggest a windows machine since the majority of the time, they would be saving a couple hundred bucks.</p>
<p>IBM Thinkpad. Businessmen all use this.</p>
<p>azsxdc, your one of the few who helped me…the rest just ranted about the price, im not talking about the price, im asking if its good for business or if i doesnt matter…and about the windows thing, why would some one what to always use that part? what is it that windows has that mac doesnt?</p>
<p>Windows is preferred b.c. there are a lot of programs that aren’t compatible with Apple. However, you can always mod the Apple and make some programs fit, but come on, why waste all that energy? As I said before, most businesspeople use IBM Thinkpads, Blackberrys, etc; You see relatively few of them using the Apple iPhone or Mac to conduct business (hilarious if you’re doing this imo haha).</p>
<p>the Thinkpad is so common because its very durable and sturdy - it was designed for people who will be carrying it around a lot, which wears out laptops relatively quickly. it also (i’m pretty sure) has holes in the keyboard for draining any drinks you might spill on it. being a Windows machine is an added bonus because most companies use that OS and there will always be a Windows version of any given business-related program.</p>
<p>as for the iPhone, i read this a long time ago but i think it hasn’t been assimilated into the business world simply because its more of a consumer product than a business one. this may not apply to the new one since i haven’t bothered to read about it.</p>
<p>and then again, you’re a student and i don’t think it will make much of a difference until after you’ve graduated, and then you’ll probably be due for a new computer anyway. if you like OSX so much that you’re willing to go through the extra hassle of running Parallels or rebooting into Windows, then go ahead and get a Mac, though at this point (if you get a Mac again) you’ll probably want to spend the extra money to get a Pro since it has much better construction.</p>
<p>Asus:
Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn T9300 2.5 GHz 6MB 800 FSB
3GB RAM DDR2 667 MHz SODIMM 2G+1G
Hard Drive: 250GB SATA 5400 rpm
Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi
Screen: 15.4” WXGA+ 1440x900 glossy
Price: (Currently) $1,299.00</p>
<p>Apple:
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM-2X1 GB
Hard Drive: 250GB SATA 5400 rpm
Optical Drive: SuperDrive 8X DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW
Screen: MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
Price (with student discount): $2,499.00</p>
<p>apples are too expensive</p>
<p>what’s the graphics card on the asus?</p>
<p>What’s an “Asus”?!? Never heard of that name before.</p>
<p>Anyways, if you’re just going to buy a MacBook because you think:</p>
<p>A) It looks “cute/cool”
B) It’s the “popular” thing to get
C) It’s supposedly super expensive so get it as a status symbol</p>
<p>Then you’re buying it for the wrong purpose. If you’re going to buy a Mac and not appreciate the superiority of Mac OS X, bundled iLife software, how “everything works”, and then the unparalled aesthetic design, then it’s going to be a complete waste of your money.</p>
<p>But yes, a MacBook should be plenty “good enough” for you. Myself, I got a MacBook Pro just because I wanted a larger screen size and am completely smitten by the aluminum design casing. As a business major myself, I had no problems. My mom has a white MacBook, switched from her ThinkPad and absolutely loves it. :)</p>
<p>88888888,</p>
<p>he’s using it for running simple apps, not gaming. Even if he was using it for gaming,he’d want a windows based computer.</p>
<p>A macbook has an integrated video card, as well. And an $1000+ price increase doesn’t justify a 8600m gt in a macbook pro, nor an OS that’s been over-hyped to hell and back.I’ll admit Vista has its issues,but you can always downgrade to XP; an extremely stable OS.</p>
<p>88888888, I’m not sure what the graphics card for that specific deal is… but you can buy a nVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 575MHz - 768MB SDRAM - PCI Express x16 for 500 bucks and the price of your laptop would still be like 700 dollars cheaper than the mac.</p>
<p>and diehldun I’m surprised that you haven’t heard of them considering one third of all motherboards in the world are made by them.</p>
<p>[Asus</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus]Asus”>Asus - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>And 88888888 the ASUS for 1390 comes with this video card… NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS, 512MB (DX10)</p>
<p>[ASUS</a> M50SV-A1 15in WXGA Notebook Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 3GB DDR2 Bluetooth V2.0+EDR HDMI-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com](<a href=“http://www.directron.com/m50sva1.html#caption]ASUS”>http://www.directron.com/m50sva1.html#caption)</p>
<p>That’s the link in case anyone was wondering.</p>
<p>yeah, you probably shouldn’t be giving advice about what laptops to buy or not to buy if you’re unfamiliar with a major manufacturer</p>
<p>I was being sarcastic but forget it. It’s just that I never once (NEVER) saw an Asus on campus; they’d either just be HPs, Macs, Dells, ThinkPads, a few Vaios (which surprised me, I thought there’d be more of them around). I guess each school is different.</p>
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<p>I’ve never seen a consumer with a Thinkpad, but that doesn’t keep them from still being the best laptop line known to man ;/</p>
<p>Yeah, that definitely surprised me too! In high school, the only time I ever saw ThinkPads were in my dad’s company. But in college, it seems like they’re everywhere (which is good, because I love ThinkPads as well) :)</p>
<p>macbook is definitely good enough. we all know that windows vista sucks and is unreliable, and windows xp has completed its cycle. macs are definitely awesome, and if you really will need those macros, just use neooffice or install windows xp, which you can find for free in your school’s library. i’m sure an update will be rolled out for office 2008, maybe with that you can use them.</p>
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That’s wrong. XP’s life cycle doesn’t end until support does. [Regular</a> support for XP will continue until July 2010. Extended support will continue until April 2014.](<a href=“Windows XP - Wikipedia”>Windows XP - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>by cycle, i didn’t mean the official support cycle. i just believe that it’s a shame we’re bound to use 2002’s technology and that microsoft leaves us no other chance because of vista.</p>
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Actually, XP has been significantly updated thrice since its release. The most recent update was 3 months ago. I’m using Leopard right now, and I see absolutely nothing that’s so amazing about it that I wouldn’t have in XP.</p>
<p>Not to mention the fact that [when</a> Microsoft showed a “new” operating system to a group of people, stating that it wasn’t Vista](<a href=“http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20]when”>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20), 90% of the people thought it good. Turns out it was actually Vista; it just didn’t look like it. A lot of the Vista hate just stems from its poor reputation. Many people hate Vista because they want to, not because there’s something concretely bad about it that they don’t like.</p>
<p>That’s not to say there aren’t problems with Vista; I wouldn’t use it myself. Then again, I would prefer not to use any version of Windows.</p>