I'm shopping for a new laptop

But I'm concerned with the proprietary aspect of the software
Most of if not all of the business software are windows based.and the supplemental software that is there for iOS  just doesn't ease my concerns 
I really have to have excel, word, outlook, work effectively not just apps that make it similar to appease me, with a ambiguous imply that it might happen later
Lets face it Mac is a sizable investment, another thing I find disappointing  is that  allele got rid of the 17 in screen , as I'm getting older an need a larger viewing range
The question is are they going to address these items if not I'm going to move on and go for HP very shortly
I don't need retina display not hat important and not worth the cost
Shmors

Since your older like me and didn't get one of the last 17" MacBook Pro's with Snow Leopard, and also you likely won't like the new generations of the Mac operating system that Apple keeps releasing on a annual basis now.
My suggestion is to get yourself a nice 17" anti-glare laptop from a PC vendor preferably with Windows 7 as that will be supported until 2020.
Windows 8 will be a sudden shock, as also is the OS X Lions that come on all new Mac's now.
Even though there is OfficeMac, the fonts and features are not the same as on Windows so sharing files with PC users is going to be a pain and there is ALWAYS that one piece of software you need that isn't on OS X and only on Windows, so it's like all we Mac users have to wind up running Windows eventually anyway.
So we are screwed basically and it's best just to stick with what you know.
As a Mac user for over 20 years, I've found Apple's products lately to be undesirable, childish and gimmicky, so I'm running Windows 7 on mine until it's dead or Johnny Iv'es rescues us from goofball iOSfication.

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