expand it to the max memory 8gigs and ye'd be grand I'd say... better than that over priced mac garbage anyway.....
In fairness, the Macbook Pro is starting to look decent value with those specs at that price. Sure you can get a better laptop for the spec, but not *that* much better.
Looking at the John Lewis website in the UK, for example:
http://www.johnlewis.com/230933694/Product.aspx
2.4GHz core duo and 2kg, with 4gb of DDR3 RAM, 10 hours of battery life and a 250GB harddrive.
This 14" HP:
http://www.johnlewis.com/230676453/Product.aspx
has a 250gb harddrive, a slower processor, less RAM, and worse battery life. Weights a bit less, but it's only £150 less.
Ok, for £100 more you can get this Sony Vaio:
http://www.johnlewis.com/230986917/Product.aspx
with 6gb of ram, twice the size of harddrive, but the battery life is shite. Not clear if the RAM is DDR2 or 3 either.
I'm starting to come around to the view that the 13" Macbook pro is not a complete and utter rip off. Expensive, sure, but not *that* expensive compared to the competition.
I had a go off building a comparable Dell. Besides a DNS failure on the website, o get a Latitude 13 to the same spec, you'll fork out £710 and even at that, you've only got a the low voltage (i.e. power) version of the 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo, whereas the Macbook has a 2.4GHz version of the same chip.
So while it is a lot cheaper, I'm not sure it'd crack along as quickly and, well it's a Dell, every dell I've ever had has had hardware problems.
In saying that, every piece of Apple hardware I've ever owned has had hardware problems too, but I must admit, I'm sorely tempted. If this new announcement in October pushes down the prices of Macbooks or bumps up the spec (although yes, it's probably just yet another expensive upgrade to the OS), then I think I might get one.
