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aussieNickuss · 02-09-2007, 08:54 AM

At my work, we recently ordered 15 MacBooks after we had gone through quite a few price comparisons.

The actual price tag of the Macs look larger but in fact (in the case of our MacBooks) they were cheaper. We got MacBooks with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive and DVD burners for (AUD)$1749 each. Our alternative was the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads which at exactly the same price were only 1.8Ghz, 512MB Ram, 80GB HDD and NO DVD burner. The equivilent IBM was over $2000.

I think for what you need a MacBook is more than suffucient...however, if you plan to play games or run Vista (for the eyecandy), you would want to consider the Pro models. The MacBooks are fast! Mine boots to a ready Mac OSX desktop in about 12-15 seconds.

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aussieNickuss Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Posts: 287	At my work, we recently ordered 15 MacBooks after we had gone through quite a few price comparisons. The actual price tag of the Macs look larger but in fact (in the case of our MacBooks) they were cheaper. We got MacBooks with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive and DVD burners for (AUD)$1749 each. Our alternative was the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads which at exactly the same price were only 1.8Ghz, 512MB Ram, 80GB HDD and NO DVD burner. The equivilent IBM was over $2000. I think for what you need a MacBook is more than suffucient...however, if you plan to play games or run Vista (for the eyecandy), you would want to consider the Pro models. The MacBooks are fast! Mine boots to a ready Mac OSX desktop in about 12-15 seconds.