“Whether you’re shopping for college or to replace an old computer, there’s never been a better time to buy a laptop. They’re more compact, powerful, and inexpensive than ever. Even for a modest price, you can get a machine that’ll serve you well for years to come. But what can you get for $1,200? The answer may surprise you,” Tony Hoffman reports for PC Magazine.
“If you’ve ever thought of switching to a Mac, a 13-inch MacBook may be the ticket. The Apple MacBook 13-inch (Core 2 Duo T7200) is more powerful, has more RAM and a larger hard drive than the previous version, yet it maintains its same reasonable price. In the iLife ’08 suite, it has the best software bundle in the industry,” Hoffman reports.
Full article here.
Microsoft, just die. Just ucking die
they should really include iWork for students…
Nonsense. Do you MAC lemmings really want to know what the best software bundle in the industry is? Try Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office. Get ’em preinstalled on a Dell and it’s all you need.
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Oh, and X, be careful what you ask for. Without Microsoft Apple will run out of ideas.
If you’re going to get a Dell go see a psychiatrist first, oops I’ll start again.
If you’re going to get a Dell get one with Ubuntu and OOo installed. Don’t feed the beast.
It seems like including iWork would sell a lot of computers, I’ve always wondered why Apple doesn’t do that. I wonder how much they make selling iWork?
That said I’ll probably buy it when I get Leopard, maybe they’ll offer a package discount.
-Mark
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Die Microsoft, die.
Seconded.
I’m glad PC mag gave such a good review BUT, they continue to benchmark using Photoshop CS2, we all know CS2 runs under Rosetta, I guess the missed that little fact, so the Mac always benches slightly slower on the PS tests, other tan that it rocks, But it satil irritates…..
It’s true. Without M$, Apple would seem like the industry standard, instead of the benchmark.
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I agree, pre-installing iWork would be more than made up in incentive Mac sales. Although, M$ BU would not be happy…do we care??? Not any more!
Time to dump M$ anything for the Mac.
It is uncharacteristically dumb of Apple not to include a functional word processing app with their consumer machines. iWork would fill the bill very nicely. And anyone who cares what Microsoft thinks should definitely seek professional help.
alansky, TextEdit is functional enough for a lot of people.
And since the same software that’s on Macbooks is on EVERY Mac, then EVERY Mac has the best software bundle in the industry.
Hard to argue with that. iLife rules.
Zune you still have the sense of humor.
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About having iWork bundle on the new Macs, free of charge: This would be anti-competitive, and would also discourage MS from providing Office for Mac, which is profitable for them.
Apple should be very careful about what it provides in the way of free software,so this would be a very bad idea. Apple needs to be able to advertise that Office is available for the Mac, and MS needs the extra revenue since it makes money on the Macs if and only if Office is sold for a fair proportion thereof
I am slightly disappointed by Apple’s change in educational discount. It’s still great for computers, but students save all of $9 on iLife and iWork (it used to drop $30 to $49). No more discount on iPods or the iPhone. Oh well, guess I will have to get a job
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Please Apple, don’t bundle everything.
While it would be nice-to-have, it would also quite probably negatively impact the software-ecosystem and overall landscappe of the Mac software-market.
People should still be able to make a choice.
go TextEdit, go! Nice simple word processor.
It is always so strange that people would care about one company more than the other. Neither cares about you, but they have both needed each other. Apple is better set for the future and makes much tighter consumer products. M$ is a giant and windows extremely outdated. So is office for many people. iWork using iWork and even though Apple has no love as M$ does, it makes better products and far cooler software.
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NOT bundling iWork does make sense. Bundling iLife, though i don’t use it, is pretty much essential for Apple.
For many, Office legitimizes the Mac. Which means that if Apple gave MS reason to kill Office they would, except that Office does provide a revenue stream.
I’m convinced that Apple killed AppleWorks… it died 5 years ago and had been in stasis until the “official” killing a few weeks ago.
My only quibble with iWork, is the lack of some sort of database application… a FileMaker Lite, for instance.
If people get iWork for free, they won’t use it.
If they pay for it, they will use it.
If students need a freebie suite they can just get NeoOffice.
Runs flawlessly on x86. Reads the horrid MS formats too, and exports to a WORLD STANDARD open format.
Why the heck do people capitalize MAC? That doesn’t even make sense to me.
If the word was spelled MACintosh, then I suppose it would make sense. Otherwise…