Quote Originally Posted by slaxxx View Post
I'm really not trying to be pedantic here or argue everything you're saying, buuuuuuut...

1) Windows does not cost $350 unless you don't know about the OEM pricing. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...rating+Systems Take your pick.

2) The thread was about buying an iMac, then you separately said it costs $3700 to run Windows on a Mac. You can even run Windows on a Mac Mini, so you are talking ~ $160 on top of the $600 or so a Mac Mini costs. No one will ever argue that Macs are cheap- they are a niche product for a certain type of consumer. But you can run Windows on a Mac for much less than $3700.

3) That being said, is the $1350 Vaio using Santa Rosa and has identical hardware to the Macbook Pro (especially the GPU)? It may, I don't know- so I'm not saying you're wrong about that off the bat.

4) There was no OS X update this morning, and I just checked now to confirm. Windows updates nearly every week though.

Anyway, I was really just trying to convince Lee to give it a fair shot, not convince someone who tried it and didn't like it. Not everyone has to like the same products. I just wish I had gone back to Mac sooner and not spent 6 years on Windows.

Did you read my original post? I think you need to go back and read the original post.

I said it would cost ME around 3700 to get it the way I wanted. Which turned out to be around 3500 to get it the way I wanted 17" macbook pro.

I said my mac software wanted to update this morning, itunes and quicktime and that the MacOS is always wanting updated as well. I have an imac here at the house. It wants updated just as much as Microsoft.

Finally I didn't try to convince him to do shit, I just answered what he asked about. This was the last paragraph in my original post.
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"If you just want one to play around with, then go for it, but I want an all in one solution and the Mac couldn't do that for me in the way I wanted it to do, so I bought a Sony laptop and have had a few ever since then and love them.

The type of computer, os, etc., really depends what you plan on using it for. So figure out your needs and then see if it matches up with what you plan on doing with it.

I hope this helps! Just my opinion of course!"
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You need to go back and read my original post. You've forgotten a lot of it!