No, the $16GB of RAM is a massive rip-off. It should NEVER be priced so highly. This author has no idea what he's talking about at all - the article is filled with incorrect info.

LOL, this author has NO idea what he's talking about. Such a thing does not exist.

Agreed!

Agreed!

I'm sorry, but 9400RPM HDD? What? Such a thing doesn't even exist. And if you think maxing out the CPU will make much of a difference in a laptop model, especially from the tiny jump from 2.3GHz to 2.7GHz, you're sadly mistaken. There will be virtually no difference in gaming performance, and when it comes to…

Whoops, forgot you mentioned the trackpad (I hate all trackpads anyways - I'm a full-sized mouse user). However, I'm talking nothing more than internal hardware. The real meat-and-potatoes. Aesthetics mean nothing to me whatsoever, and outer gimmicky things are even less important. Just the technical specifications…

I can agree with this.

I wasn't trying to match that model - and to me the webcam, mic, trackpad, and weight are meaningless. Superior versions of these can be found on comparable ASUS products.

Here is that Clevo laptop:

No, the unibody construction and other physical choices makes Apple laptops MUCH more annoying to open-up and tinker with. Plus, they often have limitations like not-upgradable RAM.

Well my knowledge of coding and web design is minimal - I was just referencing what others with much more knowledge on these topics than I have said.

I don't agree with the assertion that Apple products are of some superior quality - IMO, ASUS, Samsung, Sony, and Clevo are on-par, if not better-than, Apple products in quality.

That's subjective. I really do not like OS X or Apple at all.

No you can get Windows for $99. But that's clearly higher than the OS X prices you mentioned. Then again, as mentioned in this thread, Apple hardware MORE than makes up for this price difference. By a LOT.

My mistake - but I swear I saw it being sold for $169...? Yet when I went to Apple's website, it said $19.99? Does that require an OS already installed before it? Combined price in such a case might be higher then, perhaps?

I don't agree with your assessment of Windows 7, haha. But Ubuntu is fantastic - I've had a lifetime of exposure to Linux distros, and that is a really nice one. And yeah, Windows was always shabby with battery life and low performance hardware.

Honestly not sure. In the end, there was enough truth in the article for it to make my point, haha.

Hmm, I've heard otherwise from some very serious web designers. Even read a scathing article online from one guy on a major site about why he hates OS X, and he definitely seemed to know his stuff very well.

Actually I thought it was fairly unbiased - the same website has an article with a list of reasons to favor OS X.

I don't agree, but to each his/her own.