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Originally Posted by tonoy
Hey there folks,
I need help in choosing a new laptop for myself. I am leaning towards a macbook pro. But I am seeing mixed review.While I do like the new design but I wouldn't want something that is not great when it comes to portability. What would you guys recommend?
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I can be honest with you and give you two sides of the coin, when going for a macbook pro, they are extremely overpriced, and are not worth the money, let me put it to you this way, A top of the range macbook pro with 2.7ghz Core i7 costs around about 4.2k in AUDs, not sure what you get in GBP or USD. But that is hideously over priced and comes with only 512gb of Flash Storage(Fancy word for SSD), now the SSD itself costs 500-600 dollars plus the apple branding, theres about 16gb of DDR3 DIMM RAM, which to be honest costs around about 200 AUDs here down under, the GPU is give or take 400 Dollars, but I doubt you will be gaming on the mac, the rest are usually on the build design and quality. Thats one side of the coin
The Hardware:
let's say you spill coffee or juice on the macbook, your keyboard is instantly gone, the keyboard is soldered onto the motherboard/logic board, so thats 2000 AUD of replacement parts right their, trust me, my macbook pro was spilt with just 100ml of water and it cost us 1.6k to just get it repaired,on the otherhand a HP,Lenovo,Dell and several other companies do not solder their motherboards and keyboards togethere, thus it is much cheaper to repair if you go with another brand such as apple, however keep in mind you are literally screwed after the warranty period, if anything hard ware related occurs on the mobo or logic board, as they are extremely hard to replace.
The OS:
Windows hands down wins, functionality and availability absolutely trumps apples OSX/MacOS, almost 95percent of all apps are designed for use on Windows PC and are later ported over to the mac, good luck getting anything other than office suite to run on macbook pro, unless you have years of experience on the UNIX based OS, or you're a godsend with WINE, I would steer clear of mac, good luck playing any games on it aswell if you choose to.One down side of windows is the amount of virus/trojan/malware/ransomware/bloatware/spyware.... that exists, even then it is easily avoidable if you don`t click on any shifty ****, or have a decent AV installed(windows Defender Is the best though, then I `d rate bitdefender very highly).....Don`t forget theres a ton load of cracked apps/warez on windows too.
Design: Apple wins hands down no questions asked
Recommendation:
Work: Go with ASUS, Gigabyte, these guys build computer parts, they know what they`re doing, purchasing an ASUS or even GIGABYTE machine will last you a very long time
MY personal Recommendation would be the Gigabyte p34g, comes with a
2K display, the latest architecture i7, and a very beefy MGPU, to handle any editing/videoing/gaming tasks that you may choose to do, also has a 1TB SSD, so booting will take around about 10 seconds, copying/moving files will take approx 1-2 minutes (30gb File). Pretty Thin as well.
Gigabyte P34G V7
Priced at 1000-1500AUD
Check Out the ROG G751, it`s intial purpose is for gaming, but its built really well, its light and can handle any task you throw at it with 16gb of ram and 512 SSD plus 1tb HDD
PRO TIP: You probably thinking of going for Dell, HP,Lenovo, ASUS
PLEASE DO NOT GO FOR HP, their PAvilion series is very prone to over heating, they get extremely hot, extremely quickly.
Dell is fine, but personally, I like to shy away from the big 4 brands, Lenovo is dead,ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI are very good laptop manufacturers