None of those are true, except that the magnetic power cord connector truly is sweet. I get 4-5 hours of battery time, the wireless range is good, the Macbook Pro is quieter than the Lenovo, it gets as hot as any other laptop, and saying the Macbook Pro has the same "hard drive problems everybody else has" is a pointless argument.
My MB consistently gets a wifi signal in an office building where all the Lenovos seem to need an Ethernet tether once they get 6 inches away from the prime areas.
Not sure what display problems you refer to (honestly curious), both my MBP and MB seem to have displays as good as any other laptop. My other hobby is digital photography (Canon EOS5D, L glass, etc.), so I'm working with Aperture or Photoshop a lot, the only "display" issues I'd note is that the laptop LCDs don't calibrate as nicely as my external Apple cinema displays.
thank you for that completely anecdotal evaluation of apple's hardware. My personal experience has been different, however, unless you have some kind of defects-per-million data or some such, I'll stick with what I said, it mostly comes down to personal preference. Anyway I didn't intend to get into a useless argument. My point, as I've stated before, was that you seemed to be not considering a decent OS to go with the thinkpad
Re:Ask YC: MBP or Thinkpad
by mattmaroon on Sunday March 30, 2008 @11:27PM
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Ha, yeah, this subject is as close to religion as you get here. I more than anything wanted to see how far I'd get down-modded for saying something bad about Apple. Even though I think it's true (Apple's hardware really is pretty poor and expensive) based on what I'd consider a large anecdotal sample size, and just using each for a little bit, I was just curious to see what happened. I'm shocked to still be in the positive.
I don't see why most of the people here would have any problem criticizing apple. Like say, on all their evil attempts at music industry domination, restrictive apis and what not. We do admit they make some sexy hardware tough.
Re:Ask YC: MBP or Thinkpad
by mattmaroon on Monday March 31, 2008 @12:31AM
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You're applying logic to religion. It just doesn't work that way.
I gotta give them credit though, their magnetic power cord connector is nice. I haven't gotten to play with the multitouch pad either, that might be nice.