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What to get a Macbook or a Macbook Pro? I will not really be doing any photoshopping or anything like that. I probably will watch DVD's, cruise the internet, run the normal word processing, spreadsheets, etc and maybe some Matlab. What do you all think I should get?
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The MacBook.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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MacBook and MacBook Pro both have a capital B.
The plural form of DVD has no apostrophe. MATLAB is all caps. FYI. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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geehamonster, your needs/usage has MacBook written all over it. A total no-brainer, IMO. You'd be spending an extra gob for a lot of power and features you'll probably never put to use.
Trust me...I'll not make that same purchasing slip again (overbuying and paying twice more than I need for what I do). I learned an expensive lesson two-and-a-half years ago! It's a $1,299 iMac or MacBook from here out... |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Sorry Brad. I was just typing it up quickly because I was at work. I didn't mean to offend you.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Not offended.
If I was, I would have used one of these: I'm just trying to educate the world one post at a time. |
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Location: Near Indianapolis
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By the way, welcome to the 'Nova! |
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Ze MacBook.
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Oh. About the original question? MacBook. Definitely. |
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
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You didn't want those cornflakes anyway.
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I'm sure somebody did. As for the question, I'll echo everyone else. MacBook, definitely.
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MACBook Pr0! oh wait, yeah, just the mACbOOK.
-dont forget to pick up a leather iPod case |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Buenos Aires - Argentina
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The answer is simple... MBP if you have the money and if you are going to use it as a "pro" if not go to the black Macbook
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High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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why black macbook and not the midrange white one? Does he need to pay $200 for just 20GB of extra space? Thats not good advice..
Go with either the low end or midrange macbook. it should be more then enough. I am personally getting the low end macbook since its the best deal. portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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get the white MacBook and buy 3rd party RAM (512MB), buy an external 200GB HDD, all should cost the price of the black MacBook except with better specification.
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Yes, there is something wrong with pluralizing something with an apostrophe. Abbreviation or not, it's not grammatically correct. Your argument that it is correct due to a linguistic evolution is flawed, by that logic, 1337 speak should be perfectly acceptable as well by now.
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I recommend you read the Taligent Style Guide on this matter: Quote:
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I cannot believe how many grammar freaks there are on this forum.
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People who correct others' grammar in a snarky way are just out to prove how "smart" they think they are. I guarantee if I go through the archives, I can plenty of examples of both Brad and Chucker not following the correct rules of grammar --- differences between "who" and "whom" for example (which are thankfully evolving to become obsolete). But I doubt someone was obnoxious enough to devote a post to their mistaken grammar.
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Formerly “iceman009”
Join Date: Nov 2005
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am i in the right forums? did i bookmark it right. Jees luigi
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Location: Chicago
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I don't believe that anyone here is claiming to be perfect, I know I'm not because I'm nowhere near perfect. However, I do know that myself, Brad, Chucker, and others who advocate for the use of correct grammar are at least putting an effort toward it, which is more than can be said for some members here at AppleNova. The issue arises when people intentionally misuse grammar as is often the case on the internet these days. I have a big problem with people who just don't care and don't even try.
I also have a problem with people claiming that grammar mistakes are now acceptable because of an evolution of language. Yes, the english language has evolved to a point where it's barely a shadow of its former self, but that doesn't give us the right to butcher it to the point where it becomes nothing at all like its former self. There are certain aspects of grammar and language that must be maintained or we'll all turn into a pack of bumbling idiots who shout w00t! at each other as we pass on the street. Like I said, I'm not perfect, no one here is, but I know a lot of us who have a difficult time standing idly by as our language "evolves" into crap. I really don't think it's fair to yourself or to anyone else to just accept such blatant misuse of grammar and chalk it up to an evolution of language. Yes, the English language is constantly changing, that's fine, I know that we accept that. However, to allow it to suffer and die because, "that's the way the internet does it" is completely unacceptable to me. People should know better, there's 40 year old men making grammatical errors on the internet that would have them failing homework assignments that their 15 year old children are doing in school. Don't bother pointing out that the above written isn't grammatically perfect, I know that. At least I tried, at least it's readable, at least I'm not attempting to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Edit: See the above post for a perfect example of what I'm talking about. To say that it smacks of effort is a gigantic understatement. Come waste your time with me |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Would the more experienced Mac users here recommend buying the AppleCare protection plan along with the MacBook? At $200+ this seems like an incredible premium relative to the price.
(A little nervous now as I can't remember if there is a capital "C" in AppleCare... living dangerously. ) |
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Formerly “iceman009”
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well it is better to get AppleCare protection plan. And no i am not an experienced mac user. But i do have a protection plan which is different than the AppleCare, it covers accidental damages and all other hardware damages for less money (100 Euro for 3 years). It is from the apple store itself. But i am from Europe.
MacBook with Super Glue...seriously though |
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It's one thing not to know the correct capitalization of irregularly capitalized brand names and trademarks, unless someone types "MAC," but it's a problem when so many people make the same glaring mistakes that make educated people hate chatting online. Last edited by autodata : 2006-05-17 at 15:51. |
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