Mac's are for

its all down to personal preference, I wouldnt buy a Mac as they are way to expensive for what you get, the same with Sony's.

never believe quoted battery life especially if you are going to play DVDs on the battery.

Tosh/Dell/HP/Compaqs you cannot go wrong with any of these (ok you can there are always bad ones).

If you are travelling alot with a laptop then dont spend more that £600 with 3 year warranty its just not worth it.

Er what's one of them Jay?

Mole - I regularly get the quoted 9 hours on long flights out of the Sony, if I start playing Dvds then battery life goes down to about 5-5.5 hours. I see on the Sony website that some of the new T series notpads come with built in 3g............................... if the charges to my iPhone are anything to go by that is one way of webbrowsing overseas that is best avoided.................... bill before 3g= £21 a month.. after 3g and with websurfing/email on 3g in Spain/France/Egypt/Sri Lanka/Singapore/Taiwan/Hong Kong/China/North Europe I manged to donate £385 to O2's coffers in December! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Wed Jan 28 2009 4:49pm. Edited 1 time in total

Just a bit of SW mate ordered mine today

Mole i was thinking the same as you till i got one never looked back RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
SL55 AMG
760Li Alpina
BMW 535D M Sport
BMW X6 XDrive35D
BMW 320D Coupe M Sport
And A Van For Rex!

WINNER - 2008's Idler Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Comedian Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Funniest Incident

I love boobies i love boobies i love boobies cuz i'm a big kid now! (Come on everybody sing with me you know the words!)

My little Sony has never missed a beat - but the big brother laptop version I had before hated travelling in my briefcase and had to go back to them several times for attention. Maybe the fact that I have a Sony carrying case for the current one has helped protect it. I use it at home as well, in preference to my PC. I'm using the little one now. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Tim there is always this new small Sony?

http://vaio.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct.ac...8032875598 RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
SL55 AMG
760Li Alpina
BMW 535D M Sport
BMW X6 XDrive35D
BMW 320D Coupe M Sport
And A Van For Rex!

WINNER - 2008's Idler Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Comedian Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Funniest Incident

I love boobies i love boobies i love boobies cuz i'm a big kid now! (Come on everybody sing with me you know the words!)

Jay I tried the earlier version of one of those as a trial and it's too small, the keys are small and while the screen is beautifully clear it gives you eyestrain trying to read documents on it.
Just looked at the Mac Air thing - it only has 1 USB port, no card readers or anything, how can anybody live without at least 2 USB ports and an XD/SD card reader built in these days?
Also while it looks a beautiful piece of kit it's Laptop size not note book. It's AWFULLY expensive for a laptop. I'll have to go into the Glasgow Appleshop and have a look at one though................... tomorrows time-wasting project! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

they do look cool the sub notebooks I just object to the cost of them.

Jay I have no objects to Mac notebooks and the Air is a piece of work, its just my job and everything I do requires a Windows platform plus I would be hung drawn and quartered if anyone found out I had a Mac, had to keep my iPod hidden

when buying any computer kit it comes down to what it needs to do an how much it costs, if you can aford buy your next laptop notebook etal with solid state drives as about 90% of all failures I see are with HDD failures.

TheMole wrote:

they do look cool the sub notebooks I just object to the cost of them.

Jay I have no objects to Mac notebooks and the Air is a piece of work, its just my job and everything I do requires a Windows platform plus I would be hung drawn and quartered if anyone found out I had a Mac, had to keep my iPod hidden

when buying any computer kit it comes down to what it needs to do an how much it costs, if you can aford buy your next laptop notebook etal with solid state drives as about 90% of all failures I see are with HDD failures.

Haven't you heard that the best laptop to run windows (xp and vista for what's its worth) is a Macbook (what ever version) ???  Range Rover Vogue ‘17 TDV6

Gone: Range Rover Vogue '11 4.4TDV8, Range Rover Sport ‘59, Range Rover Sport ‘56

Mate i was gonna get the new Macbook just cuz it looks good didn't need it

But when i started to look in to it it was just the same as the old one spec was the same same size not much in if for the price so i just got the old one RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
SL55 AMG
760Li Alpina
BMW 535D M Sport
BMW X6 XDrive35D
BMW 320D Coupe M Sport
And A Van For Rex!

WINNER - 2008's Idler Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Comedian Of The Year
WINNER - 2008's Funniest Incident

I love boobies i love boobies i love boobies cuz i'm a big kid now! (Come on everybody sing with me you know the words!)

I use an iMAC and its the business but also wanted a portable PC. I bought an Aspire 1 from Acer and its great value for money (WiFi, excellent screen, light etc) and no issues with reliability to date.

Jimmy_75000 wrote:

Haven't you heard that the best laptop to run windows (xp and vista for what's its worth) is a Macbook (what ever version) ???

nope Im partially deaf so I turn me hearing aids of and then its blah blah blah blah alert alert alert blah!

lol!!!  Range Rover Vogue ‘17 TDV6

Gone: Range Rover Vogue '11 4.4TDV8, Range Rover Sport ‘59, Range Rover Sport ‘56

how about this sub notebook...

http://www.saverstore.com/productinfo/prod...mp;tid=218

IMHO The Macbook air is a superb laptop.......everything just works so well with zero drama

Why is it IT types hate Macs, could it be because they just work! You buy one you switch it and you start using it. Buy a PC and its load this, load that, do this , do that I thought it was all hype until I bought one! Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate