Comments on: Time to switch? – Thinkpad vs. MacBook Pro – Part I

By: GooMoo

GooMoo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:49:30 +0000

I just sold my Mac pro days ago and get new TP X300. I’m not saying MAC is not good enough, but it’s really hard and unconvenient when I used MAC in the school….terrible!!!

TP X300, i really love it.

By: m1

m1 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:11:31 +0000

Thinkpad = rugged (not so sleek looking), ultranav

Macbook = sleek looking (not so rugged), no ultranav

Those are really the only differences now (other than price i guess) – you can run OSX or WinXP on either.

I like the thinkpad running OSX personally. The touch-pad mouse thing gives me carpal tunnel issues, and I don’t like the external mouse – because I like to be able to compute in full effect while, for example, sitting on an airplane or whereever without carting one more misc item.

Ultranav kicks ass once you get used to it, and I believe apple has some ego issues to deal with before they would adopt something similar.

By: mxky

mxky — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:59:56 +0000

I’m thinking of buying a macbook or a thinkpad, I really don’t know yet.. I know that apple is gonna update in june 08, I believe, the intel penryn chips and their new design. The fact is that I had a powerbook in 2003 and I have been a bit disppointed too! the thing was so hot that I couldn’t put it on my knees, some soft problem, macos didn’t want to start several times. Something I don’t get is that many people told me that softwares crash a lot on windows and just don’t on mac. From my point, the problems I had with my powerbook during one year of strong utilisation is 90% I had with my previous PC in 5 years.. I noticed something very interesting between win XP Pro and macos 10.2 (version I had that time). When a soft crash on PC, you have the time to save your work, but on Macos it really crash, it happens to me so many time that I am a bit afraid about getting a new one, even its macox 10.5 now..

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:44:15 +0000

The argument I’ve most heard for picking Mac over Thinkpad is that a person can do most everything they need to on a Mac these days. I agree – can’t argue with that. So what we’ve got is two machines that will both do what you need them to do. A nice Thinkpad with discrete graphics is $1100. A Macbook with discrete graphics is $2000. Get the Thinkpad.

By: kuba

kuba — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:52:10 +0000

OK I agree to Derek. I just want to sale my mac as soon as possible. I have it since 2006 and I am so disapoited that this “superstar-machine” works just on the same level as ‘regular’ and cheap pc machine. Even more that I found software like iphoto,imovie, dashboard, idvd so bad and primitive that I am still suprised of it.
Just sale it and get thinkpad asap !

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:22:09 +0000

Thinkpads are the best laptops you can buy imo, and the new revamp of the T & R series are amazing. Macs are not more stable than a , stability issues come from poor 3rd party hardware & software. Most people compare the macbook pros ect with crappy laptops made with low quality parts, and software with horrible driver programming. Get a high quality windows machine and its just as stable & secure as a mac, with better flexibility and a myriad more application support.

As far as being virus free, well if you were a hacker/virus writer, why would you write anything for what amounts to a few percentage points of the worlds computers, when you can write one for a platform that accounts for almost every single one? If macs were more common, you’d find just as many virus’s taking advantage of the many security holes found in Mac’s OS just like you do windows. Good anti virus and being remotely intelligent about what you open in your emails = no virus’s ever.

By: johhny

johhny — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:41:13 +0000

agree with you that MAC OS X is the best OS in the world…
but Thinkpad is better than the MacBook!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:02:52 +0000

They can share one. Install Boot Camp then Parallels can run that same install when you are running OSX.

By: Rxdxt

Rxdxt — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:21:07 +0000

if you have both installed (Parallels and bootcamp) do you need two copies of the win os? or can they share one?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:29:12 +0000

1) Parallels/VMWare will let you run Windows without a problem. Slight performance penalty but it’ll work. Apple’s Boot Camp will let you run Windows at native speed. So one idea is to install windows in boot camp and for day-to-day use Parallels to run the Boot Camp install along with Mac OSX. When you need max speed reboot and run native windows.

2) Parallels and Boot Camp.. for gaming Boot Camp is the answer.