Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread James & Nash
radix" To: Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:09 PM Subject: Re: macbook pro questions > > Hello, I think if you buy your laptop from the apple store at least you > can > do a loan program (not tha tI recommend taking a loan in these times) but > you dont have to pay it all at onc

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread a radix
" To: Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:17 PM Subject: Re: macbook pro questions > > Basically if you want good quality computers, you'll have to pay a > little more for them. My only concern is with the high unemployment > rate in the blind community, it's hard enou

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Mike Reiser
Basically if you want good quality computers, you'll have to pay a little more for them. My only concern is with the high unemployment rate in the blind community, it's hard enough for a blind person to get a computer in general let alone the high priced screen readers. Hopefully those folks

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Luckily used Mac hardware seems to hold up well and a MacMini works just as well as any laptop if you don't need portability. Only snag is that upcoming OS upgrades will be Intel only which means older non-intel hardware will be forever limited to Leopard. Of course the intel conversion happen

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Its an age old debate. Generally Macs are pretty close in price to PCs with similar hardware options. The trick is Apple doesn't sell stripped down low end hardware or 101 combinations of various options. So the common complaint folks have is when they try to compare to some bargain basement co

Re: macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Howell
There are reviews, you can get larger drives, but generally that requires you order it from the online store, but it may be your local store will upgrade the drive, check with them, and you can't really compare the cost of a Mac with a PC. Your talking apples and oranges, ha ha. The Mac in

macbook pro questions

2009-07-17 Thread a radix
Hello everyone, Sorry for the flooding with post I have been doing but after discovering all of this mac accessibility I am just pretty excited sinc eI did not know anything about this before and i love learning about new stuff that can 'widen my perspective'. I have been thinking about buying