# Bought a macbook pro... suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 20, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bought-a-macbook-pro-suggestions/42136 "2008-01-20T08:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bought-a-macbook-pro-suggestions/42136/35 "2008-01-24T12:27:16Z")
> [@Djs87](#): > > Less effort to keep it clean, because theres less spyware/viruses out there written for it CURRENTLY (not for long hopefully). Like the other guy said, wait until the market starts to shift. I cant wait. Really. If I see another stupid pc vs mac commercial, Ill probably stab somebody. Ill never buy anything apple just because of that. Even if the macs were superior, which obviously they are not, I still wouldn’t buy one. With that being said, a buddy of mine knows a mac owner. I know…its a stretch. (just goes to show you that not many people want to spend $2500 just to be trendy, when they can get a better pc for $1200. I got a dell laptop with a 2.2ghz t7500, 2 gb ddr2 667, 160gb 7200rpm hd, 8600m gt, w/ vista ultimate 64 bit and will play games better than your mac, I promise) BUT ANYWAY, the mac started getting problems with it, so he took it to a mac repair guy. Now when I heard that my first reaction was “WHAT? THERE IS SUCH A PLACE? HOW CAN YOU FIX PERFECTION!?” The guy took a look at the laptop, and with the expression on his face, you would have thought the world was coming to an end. Needless to say he couldn’t fix it. Thats all the details I got on it tho, Ill ask him exactly what the issue was later, but its just hilarious to me. It made my day…my week…my month. > > Now it might be a pain to have to take your computer to somebody to get it fixed, and pay them a few bucks. But when you figure just how much more $ a mac costs, as opposed to a comparable specs laptop/pc, its just a joke. Id rather spend $1000+ less, to have to tinker with it once and awhile. And really, if you get problems with your computer, you obviously just have poor internet surfing habits, or fucked something up with a driver (which are easy to install). If your old PC had hardware trouble, that has nothing at all to do with it being a pc. Macs run off the same hardware, just a different OS. I think what you are missing is that the Mac is superior as far as security goes, its not perfect, and has vulnerabilities, but it is better. besides, what do you know about Operating Systems that makes you qualified to make a statement like that? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bought-a-macbook-pro-suggestions/42136)._