Wanted: Mac laptop

Looking to buy a useable mac laptop. Doesn't have to be super awesome flash flash, I just need a computer for faffing about on the internet. Can't afford much and if I can pay you via paypal that would be fantastic.

pssst, buy a PC. Pretty much the same thing, just cheaper.

pretty much does not = same thing. if I wanted a pain in the ass machine I'd get a PC. my mom's are constantly going on the fritz and I want to stab IE in the tits.

download chrome, firefox or opera then, I really don't get the whole 'PCs are a crock of shit and break all the time' thing. I've never had a virus, yeah a few crashes here and there but that kind of to be expected if you run illustrator, photoshop, media player and a bunch of other windows simultaneously.

+1 on what Ed said, sure IE is shit but just get another browser instead.

Speaking as someone who has had to work on, fix and support PC's for about 15+ years, the best thing I ever did was buy a macbook 4 years ago. I've never rebuilt it, I never perform maintenance on it, I seldom have to reboot it and it just works.
At work I generally have to replace/rebuild PC laptops every 12-18 months.
When I come home, I don't want to have to do the same thing.
I am the converted mac sceptic.

there I said it.

If I have the cash monies come the summer I too will most likely be joining the apple crew, but if I was on a budget then PC all the way.

Anyway, Jenne is awesome so someone give her a sweet mac for fiddy dorra

thanks, moog!

yeah, Clefty, I lost "built in tech support" (step dad) when I went to Mac b/c it made that such sense to me. 8 years and I still haven't looked back. Every time I work on them I just get annoyed.

although its not a mac, I have an EeePC you can borrow if you want something that works until you get sorted.
It's very lightweight though v.small screen and only suitable for internet/mail use so not sure if it would be suitable for you. It's this one

I will most prob be selling my macbook 1st gen 13" this year, as am prob going to upgrade - it's done me for 4 years nicely and is still a good machine, but it will prob be out of your budget.

jayloo, I have an old 12" powerbook floating about. It's a bit slow, and misses some key, but it's usable. Yours for whatever you wanna give really.

sorry to hijack but are you selling that eeepc clefty??

hi jayloo,
i have a big old emac which you can gladly have for free. with a new hard drive and or motherboard, it'd work like a dream.
comes with ever free-er stickers on the case!
haha

ps. i hope your reply to me to be your 1000th post!

Just buy a Dell mini 10v and turn it into a macintosh. I did, it cost me £250 or so including the copy of Snow Leopard and it's perfect.

Given all these issues, I became pretty jaded about my netbook — hence my lack of mentioning it here at Wired.com in recent months. I ended up selling my MacBook Pro and buying the latest unibody model refurbished, and now I rarely use my netbook. So unfortunately, I have to agree with Dave “MacSparky” Sparks and The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s Steven Sande, who both grew frustrated with their Dell Mini 9 Hackintoshes. It’s a fun hacking project, but it’s like the fixed-gear bicycle you built but left sitting in the garage, because over time you realized it was too impractical.

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/six-months-with-a-hackintosh-netbook-it-aint-pretty

^Just reading i stumbled across this ^

I have one for sale, yours for £1250 ;o)

Just buy a Dell mini 10v and turn it into a macintosh. I did, it cost me £250 or so including the copy of Snow Leopard and it's perfect.

A bit like pretending your 48 year old wife is a 22 year old lol

I guess it depends what you want from a computer. I hate full-size notebooks. They are too big, too heavy, too expensive and not powerful enough. For the money they cost I am always going to go for the extra power of a desktop, and a Windows desktop at that. But I do like to sit on my sofa and email, stream itunes, browse the web and other lightweight shit in the evening, and don't want to have to go into my study to do it, so for me the netbook is perfect. And dumping Windows and putting Snow Leopard on it makes it more so. It is dirt cheap, just powerful enough, runs cool and weighs very little.

I've just ordered a mini 10v from the Dell Outlet for £174 which includes a 6 cell battery, a Windows 7 licence and delivery. Planning to put Snow Leopard on it and sell my Macbook, which is bigger, heavier and more powerful than I need.

I've got a quad core super powerful hackintosh which works perfectly so the 10v will be for on the train/sofa/whatever and just used for email/internet/word processing, which is all I ever use my Macbook for.

I'm a converted mac sceptic too. 10.6.2 is just great, fast, smooth, reliable, looks good, requires zero maintenance. PCs are a pain in the arse by comparison.

@Brucy - a lot of the problems in that article are legitimate grievances. That's not a successful hackintosh if it's breaking and falling apart, the whole point for me is to get a user experience that's as good and reliable as an actual Mac. My desktop hackintosh works literally perfectly. The mini 9 is generally regarded as having a keyboard that's slightly too small and not as usable.

Do you have the standard battery or the extended BlueQuinn? How long do you typically get out of it?

cough cough - http://www.lfgss.com/thread38950.html#post1250221

Yeah, I feel like a turd. I'm borrowing BDW's powerbook but I feel bad about using it for potentially months and months and was looking to get a new-to-me puter but then realized that I just don't have the cash for it right now. As soon as I get a job, though, watch out used macs, here I come!

maybe I can do like, six massages in the next week hint hint

most problems = PEBCAK, not OS fault. you can't get a cheap mac with the latest good OS on, get a cheap laptop and stick some tiny ass linux on it.

Do you have the standard battery or the extended BlueQuinn? How long do you typically get out of it?

I've just got the standard battery. Mostly I leave it plugged in, but I guess I get 3 hours or so if it's on the battery.

At work I generally have to replace/rebuild PC laptops every 12-18 months.

Your own or other people's?

My computers all run windows and are all fine. The one's that aren't fine are friend's computers that have more spyware in IE than was even written, the latest and greatest.. viruses, half an OS after someone else tried to 'fix' their computer by deleting stuff.
Basically, they're fine if you have a clue. The guys at work do like their MacBooks though. The dual-boot setup is appealing but the extra cost is not. They've had issues with their machines too so don't think Macs are perfect. Saying that, one of them was run over by a car and still works.. so they're built well :)