Why I would drop Apple:
Apple currently has 2 notebooks: MacBook and MacBook Pro
MacBook isn't an option to game devs as it has Intel GMA with shared RAM only. Thats nice for office and common work while you are on move and you want something small and unexpensive. That notebook after all is quite good.
But if you want 3D performance you need MacBook Pro and thats the one I definitely do not suggest to any of my friends anymore after 2 "mac ians" had their head washed.
the quality is lower than Asus, but they cost (at least here) 1,5x times as much and that even to me as Student who has around 20% off.
When Apple gets some usefull designers and manufacturers again, that don't think that upper mid end graphics is possible with 2cm thick notebooks, they might be a choice again.
I can't suggest a notebook that is 50+ degree celcius on the top side and even hoter on the bottom, as this is inacceptable and gives you some insight on how the components are most likely going to work out in the near future -> burnt.
Thats what the recent reports on instant shutdowns and crashes showed quite good.
Apple might do a great job with iMac and their "desktop" Mac and office notebook. But their "multimedia power entry" is extremely overpriced crap. (my compal Duo T2500, 2GB RAM, 7600Go 256MB and 15,4" @1680x1050 cost me 1600$ where a similar speced macbook pro costs me 2500$ and that at a lower quality with only 1 year waranty instead of 3. So I think I don't need to clarify why the MB Pro are not acceptable in their current state. Even alienware has the better prices and that although they are definitely winners of "highest price" normally ^^)
Apple currently has 2 notebooks: MacBook and MacBook Pro
MacBook isn't an option to game devs as it has Intel GMA with shared RAM only. Thats nice for office and common work while you are on move and you want something small and unexpensive. That notebook after all is quite good.
But if you want 3D performance you need MacBook Pro and thats the one I definitely do not suggest to any of my friends anymore after 2 "mac ians" had their head washed.
the quality is lower than Asus, but they cost (at least here) 1,5x times as much and that even to me as Student who has around 20% off.
When Apple gets some usefull designers and manufacturers again, that don't think that upper mid end graphics is possible with 2cm thick notebooks, they might be a choice again.
I can't suggest a notebook that is 50+ degree celcius on the top side and even hoter on the bottom, as this is inacceptable and gives you some insight on how the components are most likely going to work out in the near future -> burnt.
Thats what the recent reports on instant shutdowns and crashes showed quite good.
Apple might do a great job with iMac and their "desktop" Mac and office notebook. But their "multimedia power entry" is extremely overpriced crap. (my compal Duo T2500, 2GB RAM, 7600Go 256MB and 15,4" @1680x1050 cost me 1600$ where a similar speced macbook pro costs me 2500$ and that at a lower quality with only 1 year waranty instead of 3. So I think I don't need to clarify why the MB Pro are not acceptable in their current state. Even alienware has the better prices and that although they are definitely winners of "highest price" normally ^^)