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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by ihartley on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @11:38PM (#433186)
I highly recommend the last gen macbooks. I have a second to last gen one and it's a great computer besides the fact that it can only address 3gb of ram. I've recently upgraded to the new unibody macbook which is an amazing machine, but a little beyond your price point of $1000
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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by wheels on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:56AM (#433257)
You can do 4 GB of RAM in the last gen. That's what I've got here. That said, a huge percentage of my friends that have had last gen models (including myself) have had a number of problems with the hardware, which wasn't true with the older PPC models.

The new ones are still too new to know if they'll be similarly problematic. I was disappointed with the new model not supporting firewire or more than 4 GB of RAM though, so I probably won't upgrade any time soon.

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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by alnayyir on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @11:39PM (#433188)
Most are recommending that I either get a lastgen mac or the current-gen. The current-gen is quite an upgrade, and it seems that I might just sell off some stuff to make up the difference and get a current-gen. There's just too much great software on OS X for me to pass up.
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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by whatusername on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @12:54AM (#433255)
Depending on timelines - don't forget that snow-leopard is coming out soon... Not sure if it's worth the extra couple of months waiting?
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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by alnayyir on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @01:28AM (#433299)
I can wait. If I do, I'll def. have the money for a macbook/macbook pro outright.
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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by kajecounterhack on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @03:47AM (#433418)
Wow...then just WAIT if you can, buy what you want, and don't start huge threads on news.yc that essentially become macvangelist madness.
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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by alnayyir on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:31AM (#433442)
Well, the alternate option is buy a Sager now, now that you've directed me to them. Which was the point of this. I knew there had to be a decent no-name'ish brand out there.
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