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<blockquote data-quote="John B. Miller" data-source="post: 40571" data-attributes="member: 1031">Re: What laptop computer to buy?&nbsp;Fair enough, Greg. Even if I grant you that Macs have some kind of &quot;je ne sais quois&quot; (which I&#039;m not sure they do beyond Apple&#039;s astute marketing), my mum-in-law could have bought a 3 year old Macbook with a current OS for a third of the cost and still retained the mystical touchy-feely Mac experience.I suppose I&#039;m just fed up with our consumer culture that constantly tells us we need the latest and greatest, and if we don&#039;t have it, we&#039;re losers. Whether you fancy a PC or a Mac, get one that does what you need it to do, and spend accordingly. My mother-in-law isn&#039;t exactly made of money, and she was talked into the new machine, plain and simple.Too many folks wear their tech toys like fashion, and I guess that&#039;s fine if you have the money. It seems awfully wasteful to me to disregard perfectly good gear because it&#039;s a couple years old and doesn&#039;t have the &quot;aluminum unibody construction&quot;. Sheesh.Some of the people I work with buy new cell phones every year (and sometimes TWICE a year!) and throw their &quot;old&quot; perfectly good ones in a drawer to rot, all in the name of &quot;I&#039;ve just got to be the coolest.&quot; Then they complain that their credit cards are always max&#039;d out and they can&#039;t get ahead.Sorry...I got a little off topic.j</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John B. Miller, post: 40571, member: 1031"] Re: What laptop computer to buy? Fair enough, Greg. Even if I grant you that Macs have some kind of "je ne sais quois" (which I'm not sure they do beyond Apple's astute marketing), my mum-in-law could have bought a 3 year old Macbook with a current OS for a third of the cost and still retained the mystical touchy-feely Mac experience. I suppose I'm just fed up with our consumer culture that constantly tells us we need the latest and greatest, and if we don't have it, we're losers. Whether you fancy a PC or a Mac, get one that does what you need it to do, and spend accordingly. My mother-in-law isn't exactly made of money, and she was talked into the new machine, plain and simple. Too many folks wear their tech toys like fashion, and I guess that's fine if you have the money. It seems awfully wasteful to me to disregard perfectly good gear because it's a couple years old and doesn't have the "aluminum unibody construction". Sheesh. Some of the people I work with buy new cell phones every year (and sometimes TWICE a year!) and throw their "old" perfectly good ones in a drawer to rot, all in the name of "I've just got to be the coolest." Then they complain that their credit cards are always max'd out and they can't get ahead. Sorry...I got a little off topic. j [/QUOTE]

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