<p>Actually I believe that recently, there has been an ongoing debate about the legal-enforceability of EULAs commonly found on software. Therefore, how much apple can lock the OSX to their own branded hardware through the EULA prohibitions is very much up in the air. In fact, Psystar, a manufacturer of non-apple OEM machines with OSX pre-installed is currently facing a lawsuit from apple for that very same reason I believe (unless the case has already been settled and I’m just behind the times). </p>
<p>As for a chinese worker needing to feed his family, that’s not necessarily true. Most of the workers in electronic factories in Guangdong Province (where most of them are located) are migrant workers, which means that they leave their villages in agricultural areas and go to a more developed area to seek better opportunities and wages. While those wages are important as remittances, they are often not the sole means of support for their families back home, rather a supplemental income to better their lives (build a new, better house, get modern appliances, etc.). This phenomenon bears resemblance to Cuban-American remittances to relatives in Cuba in that those relatives aren’t necessarily starving in the absence of the remittances but the money makes their lives more comfortable.</p>
You can easily kill someone, even if it is illegal to.
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You are just a fountain of ignorance, aren’t you? There is an enormous difference between penal law and a EULA. Next time, try learning about a topic before commenting on it, so that you don’t make blatantly incorrect statements.</p>
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Or you have provided that Chinese worker, who would not otherwise have had a job, with the money required to feed his family.
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I thought you didn’t care about those Chinese people, and preferred your ``American made’’ Mac to ThinkPads manfactured in China.</p>
<p>price drop? I don’t think that’s very likely given Apple’s history of being reluctant to drop prices on new products</p>
<p>Upgrade? Possible, Intel often release new chips/chipsets during the summer. However it takes time for new technology to make it into notebooks, it’s far more likely that Apple will update to newer technology in the fall</p>
<p>Discount? Definitely, Apple might run a free printer/iPod promotion for back to school around late summer.</p>
<p>Apple never drops their prices. They only refresh their products with newer versions, so you can never get a really cheap product from them, unless you buy it from a 3rd party who has stock left over of an old version.</p>
<p>Apple has been known to drop prices, case in point, the lower end version of the macbook has dropped in price from the previous generation. Also, the price of the iPod Touch has also dropped. The most infamous example would probably be the original iPhone as many can remember. However, it is fair to say that once a product generation has been introduced, the only likely chance of its price coming down would be when the next gen is being introduced (the 1st gen iPhone was a rare exception and a mistake that Apple probably wouldn’t want to repeat).</p>
<p>I would never buy overpriced apple crap computers. Nubs that buy macbooks just because of the apple name brand are so annoying.
Apple and their proprietary crap…</p>
<p>Get a windows laptop for almost half the price with similiar specs.</p>
<p>Since you want to spend $2000… I have the perfect laptop for you</p>
<p>It has a strong GPU for your multimedia purposes , it also has a quad core cpu which will be generally faster than a dual core in most tasks even though it has a lower clock frequency. Besides, more applications will take advantage of quad core so you will be more future proof.</p>
<p>Get a Mac if you’ve always used a Mac; same for PCs. It’s too hard to change (unless you change from a PC to a Mac, the easy direction, if you have to change).</p>
<p>Well depending on what kind of shape your in, that 9lb will feel light. I carry around a 14.1" laptop that weighs about 5lbs and it feels like paper honestly.</p>
<p>But it depends on your preferences I guess.</p>
<p>Heres another Lappy with more powerful specs than the macbook but cheaper $1699.99</p>
<p>18.4’’ wide screen for a laptop - seriously? i would go for a macbook if you really want to buy an apple computer, now with the latest revisions the difference between a macbook and a macbook pro has greatly decreased, plus they’re much cheaper.</p>
<p>If you’ll be writing papers on it, how well a full page fits might be a factor; do the extra 100 pixels help enough? $1000 is a lot more (white vs. aluminum), but if price is not a factor, and if size and weight are not important, you’ll probably wish you got the big one. The Air is in between in price, about half the weight of the Pro, but only 800 pixels high.</p>
<p>I have a MBP (previous style), and chose it over the MB purely for cosmetic reasons. As the MBP/MB lines have merged to the extent that the two are visually almost identical save for physically larger dimensions, I would STRONGLY recommend getting a MB now.</p>
<p>Before, there was no question the MBP design was far superior than the MB and for that I recommended the MBP (personally I find the new MB styling striking, and the new MBP awkwardly large). Now, my next computer will be a MB, not MBP or MBA.</p>