I'm a student, should I buy MacBook?
Hey everyone, I'm a student and my needs are a good decent laptop that don't make alot of noise and should be very stable so my documents are safe.
Question: Should I buy MacBook (1.83GHz, 1GIG RAM, 80GB HD)?
Sorry, it's hard to read what is really going on because I see some people do have some problems. I'm kinda hoping that I will hear something nice and good about MacBook, because it does look good the laptop and Mac OS X itself and I'm very tired of old Windows (PC) so...
Hey there! I'm a university student and worked from about 20 till I was / am 25 years old with Windows PCs and Notebooks. I'm still using a desktop PC but as a mobile solution I bought a MacBook three months ago. It's super. The office applications work great (for me: Word and Powerpoint are most important for university) and I've also cut a movie for my sisters school class .
There is this 'fan problem' (which you'll find in discussions around here) but it's still silent enough for lectures and other kinds at school or university. But if you want to watch a DVD during class, the 'insert mechanism' is a little bit loud .
Of course as a 'new-mac-user' you have to get used to the OS but after a short period of time trying and working with it you'll love it!
It IS and looks good... I can totally recommend it!
MacBook (2.0GHz, 1GB, 80GB) Mac OS X (10.4.7) MacBlack : )
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