Conclusions

A few months ago I was looking for a decent non-Windows laptop for 'business' use (desktops are for playing, if you ask me). I wanted to browse the net, read my mail and do the occasional programming on the road. I wanted to do that with reliability. I wanted to do that out-of-the-box or at least as hassle free as possible. My honest and experienced opinion is that the MacBook delivers me just that. Sure, it wasn't 100% hassle free plug-and-play, but what would be?

I believe I have had a good throughout look on OS X Tiger. It comes with a boatload of free iApps, and iProbably will never even open some of them, such as iChat, PhotoBooth or iWeb. Safari will probably be shadowed by Opera, even if Safari seems like a very good browser - at the very least comparable to Konqueror. But then again, there are some true pearls included, such as iTunes and Mail. The package is way more complete than any Windows installation I've seen to date. Overpriced or not - and I think definitely not - there is a metric crapload of worse ways in spending some 1000€.

I, if anyone, know it's hard to let go of old habits, or inconveinent to learn new tricks when the old stuff works just fine. But I encourage everyone to at least give a Mac a try, if available, and also give it a fair shot. Sure, it won't feel like a Windows or Linux, but it's not meant to do that either, is it? OS X, at the current state, is not a gaming platform, I give you that. But I see absolutely no reason why it couldn't be one - now with Intel processors and all. But for the rest of you, searching for a laptop to do 'productive stuff', I give two thumbs up for the Mac.

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