...with my MacBook Pro. I'm chuffed to bits with it, it puts my Windows laptop to shame. The build quality is solid, the backlit keys are a nice touch and the display is very bright and the colours are vivid - and of course the OS is excellent. That's not even mentioning that it looks "the business". We're getting along very nicely - I even like this new style of trackpad, having used it for a few hours I don't know how I managed on the 'standard' ones! My iPod Touch is also the business, it's far better (and slimmer!) than I expected, and the apps. are brilliant (especially the Tube one - that's going to save me a lot of hassle in London!). The "remote" app. is nothing short of pure brilliance too.

Time to start saving for an iMac, and an iPhone.

It happens to everyone.

Sooner or later people realise that they've been using badly built pieces of unreliable sh*t.

I seem to find that it happens quite a lot after buying Apple kit.

My iPod mini broke four times, apple kindly replaced the unit for me after trying to repair it unsuccessfully.

My iPod 5G broke twice, both times replaced (and one of them within 20 minutes of getting out of the box!). Apple kindly replaced them too.

And they're the only Apple things i've owned until recently.

So therefore TECHNICALLY i've used badly built pieces of unreliable sh*t from Apple! It's not put me off though..

Just to throw it out there, i've also had my 360 Elite replaced twice by Microsoft. Microsoft are much friendlier than Apple when it comes to replacing things, but they also take bloody AGES to do it and frustratingly attempt a repair on the part I said was working, and leave the thing I said wasn't. I had a new iPod 5G within 22 hours of sending off by courier. I didn't have an xbox for 6 weeks!

My MacBook has broken a number of times, but Apple have always been really friendly, I've had either Irish or English people on the end of the phone and they seem to know what they are talking about. Everything that has gone wrong has been fixed, bar a duff hard drive which happened outside of warranty

I love my iMac, but I can't say I've noticed any difference in hardware reliability or the stability of the OS and applications.

I'm very pleased with my macbook pro too, but as far as PC's go, that'll be it for apple until they start using decent GPU's! There's no point buying another desktop if I still need my old one to play my large collection of games on!

Is this the same Gav that was on the 'old' forum.?

Have you been to the docs gav .. only asking because surely this can't be right ..

Where is Gareth when you need him ..

Didge

I know. It's disconcerting. However, I think he's now been on a course of aromatherapy, dosed up with that "new Mac smell".

Question is - who’s going to tell them?

No, no medical attention required - as I've said before, a combination of Windows 7 hate, a macbook pro price drop and losing the more millitant mac users in the forum move. Quite happy so far, but I still don't think OSX is that far ahead of Ubuntu!

It's alright, Gav. We're only playing. But you must understand it came as a bit of a shock!

I can imagine it would be!

Well, you can get a Radeon 4870 in the Mac Pro from Apple and EVGA IIRC are shipping A GeForce GTX285 for the same. Not sure it's out in the UK yet though.
Just a pity the starting price is so high.

It may be cheaper to buy extras like this from outside of Apple’s buying zone. My MacPro would be far more expensive if I had chosen the HD and RAM as BTO options. For me, even the base MacPro is really the lower limit for a desk top machine for me now. I don’t think I’ll be going back to iMacs for my working machines. The 8 cores really make a difference.

Trouble with the pro is, as I've mentioned before - the RAM slot config is stupid! 4 slots for triple channel RAM, should be 6 - An £1800 PC that'll only let you fill a single channel...something wrong there. You want the dual-CPU one ideally, but you are looking on the scary side of £2.5k.