This is why Apple Laptops are better than PC Laptops

[chaosbunny]

Ugh it must suck so much to work for 8 hours on 1680x 1050 on 15". I can feel my eyes starting to hurt just by imagining it...

 

[booksacool1]

I got myself a dell inspiron 9300.
Yes I know, a dell...
But I needed it for games.
Anyway it gets 4h sharp batterylife on min settings, pretty good for a 17" laptop.
However, It has none of the design of apples 17" pb.
Even though it has a 2ghz pm, 256mb 6800go, 1920*1200 resolution etc, apples 17" stands out much more.
I guess apple sees more then just the hardware, which is what makes them apple.
Personally I don't know any local mac LAN's, so I'm restricted, but if I could, I would use a mac (provided it used something far above mobility 9700).

 

[moonislune]

Please don't brag about Vaios

You have apparently never checked out Sony Vaio systems... T series runs for like 9 hours... You just didn't look very hard and found one of the cheap pc systems; plenty of pc systems will get more battery life than your powerbook.

Edit: spelled apparently wrong, lol

Vaios look nice but there's nothing under the hood except poor engineering and horrible technical support. Those things are Apple wannabes.

 

[wongulous]

This thread just needs to die because so many of the arguments from either side are skewed, opinionated, illogical, or just plain annoying. I'm so embarrassed.

 

[BGil]

For instance, the only Dell laptop that doesn't have integrated graphics and with a better GPU (and PCI-express isn't going to mean squat in general use) than the PowerBook is the XPS. It is twice the weight of the PB and its battery lasts an hour, and is more expensive.

Here's a list of Dell's without integrated graphics
Dell Precision M20 and M70 (Starting at 4.88 lbs2 and 1.35"(h) x 12.28"(w) x 10.32"(d))
4+ hours of battery life
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=16961
Latitude D810
Latitude D610
Inspiron 9300
Dell XPS M170
Inspiron 600m
Inspiron 6000

All of them are cheaper than Powerbooks, most of them are much faster, and some have better battery life.

 

[rosalindavenue]

IMO the best thing about OSX laptops is the speed with which they wake from sleep. I can open my ibook and be working while a PC laptop is grinding away for 45-60 seconds. (and it only still finds the wireless LAN if you are lucky). I realize that this is more of an XP v. OSX issue than a hardware issue, but it is the reason the PC laptop in my house is covered with dust and the ibook is used multiple times every day.

 

[nbs2]

The main point of this thread is why buy a laptop if it's not meant for over 4 or 4+ hours of portability. It's just not a laptop then.

If that's the point (which I'm not sure it is), then you get the battery burning laptop because it is a lot easier to get through law school with a lappy (apologies to the paper users I know), and bad is better than nothing. For a year, I relied on my Vaio that destroyed batteries - both the original and the replacement stopped holding charges after a year - and shlepped the adapter everywhere. It was a pain to shut down, but it became easier after that stopped working too.