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That Amazon link is not a UK model as when they state it comes with UK plug it's a give away it's an import otherwise why need to mention it. The UK model can be had on the refurb store same spec for £1059 and i'd rather pay the extra for UK keyboard and not have a foreign model.
You know what, nuts to it; I can get a Surface Book for the same money, and then she has a tablet as well.
The Microsoft store is the best price by miles plus they are throwing in the xbox s fifa 17 bundle which will sell for £200 if you don't want it so makes the price very attractive. Must resist!!!
or pay through your **** for nothing special. I'm guessing your the resident apple worshiper then?
Jack is the resident Apple troll.
My MSI laptop is over a year old and destroys any Macbook piece of tat with 24GB of RAM, 4k 15.6", 4GB Nvidia GTX980M, SSD raid support etc and guess what Jack...
Are you our new Apple hater? That would be cool as the last one just quit.
I have not quit Jack and you have not won anything here, you are still an ultra Apple troll.
I have better things to be doing than whipping you about here.
You should have taken my advice and taken a hike to cupertino as Apple are down on sales across the entire board, as long as people like you exist they can entirely justify charging £2,500 for a useless Macbook laptop however.
Last edited by toffee_pie; 30 October 2016 at 11:16 PM.
Troll, yup, confirmed and previous bans to prove it. Apple troll, not at all.
I tell it how I see it and as a real world user surrounded by other happy users, I don't see why I can't be happy with my choices, and if I invite others to join me in this horrible act of being happy with Apple products that's not usually an issue.
Well, not until someone like you comes along, and it happens all the time, you've had a laugh with your mates down the pub about how good your Android is, how good your gaming laptop is and you think if you spout the same old **** you've read somewhere else you'll find an online friend here. You're an Anti-Apple troll who can't grasp the fact that you've been reeled in, still are being reeled in.
All you need to do is relax, go about your business and you'll be fine, if you keep butting in telling me and others we're idiots you'll only get a face full of custard pie, stop believing what you read on the Internet and enjoy your choices.
I think that's going to be my recommendation - it's got USB-C, 2 x USB-A, and SD card. It's missing the HDMI port, but that it probably the least annoying to manage as she can just leave a USB-C-to-HDMI cable plugged into the TV and have a reasonably unchanged user experience.
She like the idea of touch screen too, so the i7, QHD screen and £100 off voucher code will be just over £1,100.
I just knocked together a spec on the 'Lemur' equivalent to the entry-level 13" MBP and it came in at just over $1,000 - nearly $500 cheaper than the entry level MBP.
The big differences were only a 1080p screen on the Lemur, but it does have 7th gen Intel CPUs. The Lemur is less attractive to look at, but has more ports and can be upgraded.
I have been using Ubuntu as my daily driver OS for the last year, and while there are things about how it operates you do need to understand, this is little different to any of the major OS's, and past the learning curve it's Just Another Laptop in day-to-day usage. It's not hold-your-hand and lead-you-by-the-nose consumer-friendly enough that I'd recommend one to my Mum yet, but it's not far off, and for the 'power user' class that the MBP is ostensibly aimed at, I doubt they'd find the switch too difficult.
I just knocked together a spec on the 'Lemur' equivalent to the entry-level 13" MBP and it came in at just over $1,000 - nearly $500 cheaper than the entry level MBP.
The big differences were only a 1080p screen on the Lemur, but it does have 7th gen Intel CPUs. The Lemur is less attractive to look at, but has more ports and can be upgraded.
I have been using Ubuntu as my daily driver OS for the last year, and while there are things about how it operates you do need to understand, this is little different to any of the major OS's, and past the learning curve it's Just Another Laptop in day-to-day usage. It's not hold-your-hand and lead-you-by-the-nose consumer-friendly enough that I'd recommend one to my Mum yet, but it's not far off, and for the 'power user' class that the MBP is ostensibly aimed at, I doubt they'd find the switch too difficult.
I used to use Ubuntu but have now moved over to Mint Linux, its seems a little more snappier and responsive and prefer the Cinnamon UI over Unity. I've also installed Chrome(ium) OS on my very old Thinkpad T60 and given that to the kids. It's given the aging hardware new lease of life and the kids find it pretty quick and easy to use.
Really happy to hear Chromium is working out, I tried it when it was first released and that was a bit too soon. Might give it a go on this iMac when support dies.
I used CloudReady flavour of Chrome OS from www.neverware.com. It's free and it will continue to receive support/updates. It's near enough as Google's Chrome OS as you can get and runs pretty good even on an old T60 laptop from 2006 with 2GB RAM. You can get all the apps that are available from Google Web Store.
First off its US based figures and its based on a single company needs. What they used as a specification for purchases wont become public so you will never know.
Other thing that hasn't been mentioned is the ability to upgrade machines. Its alot easier with a pc than a mac. We tend to end up buying machines with specific motherboards but basic other components to give us the flexibility we need. By the time you play with discounts and number if units purchased via agreements works out alot cheaper that way.
We also use custom written software and involved in development of others, macs fall down big time when it comes to that.
But that's all kinda going off topic from the original point.
As a long, long(!) time Scoobynet lurker, it's funny to see a new hater come along and have a dig at Apple, as many have before
Did you know that Apple this year took over 100% of mobile revenue, how is that possible, the mind boggles. No doubt they'll spend it dreaming up more adaptors.
With four USB C sockets you could connect 4 Samsung Note 7's to the MacBook that's the most incendiary devices ever connected to a laptop, I don't think I'll ever need four sockets but fair play to Apple for pushing boundaries.
Did you know that Apple this year took over 100% of mobile revenue, how is that possible, the mind boggles. No doubt they'll spend it dreaming up more adaptors.
With four USB C sockets you could connect 4 Samsung Note 7's to the MacBook that's the most incendiary devices ever connected to a laptop, I don't think I'll ever need four sockets but fair play to Apple for pushing boundaries.
Wow. 4 usb hubs. At least fanboys know they are getting value for money lol
Too bad it can hardly run solitaire
Last edited by toffee_pie; 05 November 2016 at 06:10 PM.
Another fact you'll love. The MacBooks have an independent version of WatchOS running on its own hardware, isn't that great? Think of the possibilities.
You don't come across as the brightest spark but if you can read you would have seen plenty more posters ridiculing fanboys.
I count two, one's the resident **** and then there's you Number 2. Another did fancy being in your gang but saw sense. The rest of us are here laughing at the tripe you spout from your custard covered face.
I've been working on a MacBook Air this morning, lovely little thing, no Ethernet socket though. I'm going to miss Ethernet sockets I'm sure.
30 October 2016, 11:05 AM
