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'tis true unfortunately...but all the mac boys have leapt up with the defence of "well vista took 28 years"..... personally i don't give a toss which os i use, as long as it stops fecin me about and i can do what i want when i want...however it does have to be the newest version!!! :D oh well, vista laptop here we come :o :D

I was all geared up to buying one of these new fangled apple mac book thingies, as opposed to a vista laptop and what happens.....!!!!!!!!!??????? the new os leopard ain't out now until october 2007. SO much for a spring release! Bloody Microsoft.......sorry, i mean Apple. 6 whole ruddy months to find out what all this fuss is about.,... :D

also been twice! a) always wear a shirt when snorkelling and neoprene footwear--the sun will cook you in 20 mins flat, and the coral is razor sharp...i got sunburnt on the top of the foot, the blister swelled up to the size of a golf ball which i then tore off when i clipped the top of my foot when going over some coral..........i went out of the water like a pershing missile........ B) always sneak out bread from the restaurant and take it into the sea...the fish will corral you and you can hand feed them--the stripe ones nip your legs too! c)take books/mp3 player, cos if it rains and you ain't diving you will get bored to tears. d) the jet lag/heat/travel hassle will mean you keep missing meals through oversleeping--so take snacky cakes and cheesy poofs, e)remember that they do not allow you to take alcohol into the country--we watched in amazement as some honeymooning muppets thought they could!! f)make syre you tell them it is your honeymoon as they like to do things for you :D g) relax--after all the aggro getting in, where the ak47s are bigger than the men carrying them, it is an extrordinarily gorgeous place :D

They keep popping up on Amazon mate. Try Woolworths to dude, they sorted me and my mate out pretty pronto.... Still playing my Wii everyday....great with some mates round, get to smack them about a bit on the Wii Boxing! :D Use this site--thats how i got mine form Game. And yes, me the wife and best mate can't stop playing the damn thing. Rayman rabbid rabbits is hilarious and TW 2007 golf, once you get the hang of its "vagaries" is great. http://www.wii-consoles.co.uk/

erm, in my ignorance i don't understand that "getting a mac osx and a windows machine"-- what i perhaps didn't make clear was why include a component that doesn't do something the bundled s/w allows you to.....not really questioning the other aspects of an apple--i`m sure they're dandy! i suppose its like car manufacturers still including cassette decks instead of ipod/mp3 connections...... it would jerk me off though to have bought a macbook in my ignorance, go to burn a dvd with the ilife s/w then find that the combo drive doesn't allow it.... in reference to your external drive postulation, are you saying that i could compile something in ilife, then connect the macbook to my existing pcs and use their dvd burners to burn a disc? Or would it have to be a dedicated usb/firewire macdrive connected directly to the macbook? thanks for your advice btw, even though you are a bit scary.... :D

wtf?! you are joking surely; a £750 quid laptop doesn't have a dvd burner---hang on, just checking this is 2007 and not 1997...... :duh: i`ve checked the apple website and it says it has a combo drive, but for a hundred bucks more you get a "superdrive". unfortunately i can't find on the apple website what these drives are/do so cannot compare them! it also begs the question why, if iLife is supplied on the macbook and it allows you to create dvds why does it then not have a drive capable of burning those newly created dvds? Or am i getting confused? (wouldn't be the first time, and i am coming from Pcs!! :D ) See, now i`m wavering back again! :o :D

yeah we finally managed to get a wii too :D .... Tiger wooding at the moment :D i think that although i would love the all singing, all dancing bright and sparkly macbook pro, that price is, whatever people say, still a massive punch in the goolies. i also have a really good gaming rig anyway, so the imac (not the hair remover) would be a redundant move until a) my pc blew up and B)i sold both kidneys. just a couple more questions, before i`m converted (!!) 1) if i went for the base model macbook, how easy is it to upgrade later, eg hd or memory? 2) is it actually likely that i would need to upgrade these components-are macs as resource greedy as pcs? 3) which is the screen to go for, antiglare or the super glossy one (how bad are the reflections on the gloss)? 4) does the mac have the equivalent of openoffice, or is the iworks s/w equivalent to MS Office? Thanks for your patience guys--as you can tell this conversion of faith requires more than an american evangelical preacher! :D

no, i still want a pc for gaming! variety+graphics... but the mac will be for portability and for "not wasting half my life trying to do what should supposedly be easy stuff" eg photo/video editing/webcam etc. i may put a few games ont there though--- so is it a specced up macbook eg 2gb, or a macbook pro? or is it purely down to screen size, as the former at 13in does seem small...

Appreciate that, thanks very muchly. So to confirm, being a macnoob (!), the best place to buy is here: http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore And its best to wait until Mayish before committing to buy, given Leopard. Now i have to get my head around whether to buy a macbook or a macbook Pro, as it doesn't make for easy comparison--i can tell how Pc components will hang together given my long term association, but i have heard that the way a Mac hangs together can get the same "power" but with lesser specced components, eg i don't need a core2duoextrememegadeath chip that i would in a PC. Would this be correct? Essentially i`m used to the £1500,amdx2 3800, 2gb ram 7900gt type pc, but with all its stress and hassle, so i need a perspective on whether a £749 macbook will not leave me wanting "more power", or whether i`ll go"yep a macbook does what i need, so i don't need a frickin great dalek of a pc". I know its comparing apples and oranges but you get what i mean----as i`m a "power pc boy", is a macbook going to please me greatly, or should i fork out for a macbook Pro to be extra pleased? oh good, my other pc has just locked up :tsktsk: :D

thanks people. think i`ll wait a wee while and see what the easter bunny brings then! however, one question not answered was where is the best place to buy a macbook usually? would it be from apple.co.uk, pizzyworld or some hereto unknown mac outlet. as i suauslly buy my pcs from mesh, is there an equivalent mac-type outlet that does good offers/upgrades/packages etc, or is it like buying a tin of beans from tesco, ie pretty much the same wherever you go? cheers Dan

cheers Aido. not one in Milton Keynes just yet--typical i suppose! and i hate going to Pissy World to much purple and too many ill-informed 16 year olds.... :D just checked amazon and there are no prices listed yet for the OS, and no expected due date, although mid-april seems to be the one. the apple store doesn't seem to be running any Vista-type upgrade deals; either that or i can't see them behind the Mitchell and Webb ads!!!! and do watch gadget show as its the funniest thing on tv after topgear and boston legal!!!!

Hi all, long time no speak but still reading the forum! Basically i`m a Pc gamer who lies to have the most powerful pc running top end games, and i think the general consensus is that that is one area where the Mac cannot compete; the variety. However, i am now needing a laptop to do things like wireless networking, linking up to a telescope, camera etc and have been generally getting hacked off with how difficult and time consuming everyting is to do on Pcs. It's been a long time coming but i`m tempted to get the macbook, just so i can do a task that doesn't take all fricki' day to accomplish even on an uber pc. However i don't understand what the crack is with the incoming Leopard OS. Should i wait for the OS to become preinstalled already, or buy now then pay for the upgrade as i can't find prices listed for Leopard...or is it a free upgrade? :D And where is the best place to buy a mac book thingy anyway--given that because i owned an is200 i`m a ruddy pauper now!! :D Advice appreciated, but please no fanboy rants :D

that is extraordinarily patronising to non-christian faiths. i`ve known a lot of muslims in my time and have found 99.99% of them to be as "normal" and down to earth as anybody else, and people like my old mucker Saj find this hilarious. those that do care might want to read what the Australian PM has been saying recently.... but then, tbh, who exactly is letting these laws take purchase in the work place anyway? Who is standing up and saying "no! that is unreasonable to me as the silent christian majority"----nobody, they just go "BAAAAAAA"!!!! :duh: Besides which, isn`t it all just a marketing excerice nowadays; a competition to see who can sell the most useless xmas plastic tat? The perversion of the true meaning of Christmas has long since quashed any religious meaning for this time of year! And isn`t "holiday" a contraction of the word "Holy day"---isn`t that offensive to atheists? People who complain should realise that this is a >90% christian country; so get firkin used to it... Happy CHRISTMAS to all, and peace to ALL mankind :D

ANNELISE HESME possibly the most beautiful woman i have ever seen, with mannerisms that would make me eat her (she's the current renault clio lass btw)

passed you under the m1 tunnel at the weekend, only noticed when we heard the exhaust note and saw you in the rear view! TTFN Dan