Your Apple Laptop - Attn: Jack

[ViPER1313]

Spoken like someone who doesn't own one. I could give a shit about the fancy packaging. I like their support (edit... love it). Time machine is a slice of heaven. The built in camera is great. Backlit keyboard is great. LED screen is also heaven. Small form factor with no loud ass fans is great. Front row is great. Spaces and expose are great. Hell.. back to time machine... if I had had a windows PC and it'd gotten stolen, I'd have been down from work for at least a couple of nights as I pieced my shitty winbloze machine back together. Try copy and pasting programs and their settings on win. Try restoring a user account from a backup on win. With time machine, I was back up in like an hour (unsupervised). I hit the ground running at work on monday morning. I officially *LOVE* Time Machine.

Machine turnaround for a hardware issue on a Mac vs Dell when I worked at CampusNet was about 3-5 days for the Mac, 2 days on the Dell.

Norton Ghost = Time Machine, I can buy it with the money I saved upgrading from OSX 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2 to whatever it is now. Who charges money for service packs? Just be thankful someone didn't yank your external drive as well.

You are arguing hardware. Nothing is stopping Dell/Toshiba/Gateway from releasing baller laptop screens/keyboards/mice/cameras. I / most PC manufacturers don't think the sweet packaging is worth the extra $600-$700. On the other hand, if that cool looking keyboard and 3lbs are really worth the extra $700 in your mind, go buy a Mac. If money was no contest I would..... then format the drive and install XP on it.