not a mac.

    I designed this a few days ago in illustrator using an OCR font. I had a sign company a few blocks away cut it for me in silver vinyl and I stuck it (sort of crooked) to the used laptop I picked up when I first got to New Zealand.

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    1. photographer4life [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)

      i still don't get all these people dropping thousands of bucks for macs. lisa paid close to $4,000 for hers. yet i got a perfectly good dell for $499 with more ports. to me owning a mac is like overpaying just to look cool. the math doesn't make sense when it comes down to what you get for the money.

    2. Schill (42 months ago | reply)

      Nicely done.

    3. kawau (42 months ago | reply)

      Ha, cute.

    4. ktoth.com (42 months ago | reply)

      I've debated for years to get one but just could never afford it. Even used macs are expensive! But i will get an iphone as now they are $200 and NOT $700 when they came out last year.

    5. Owen Christopher Wolter (windsoriteDOTca) (42 months ago | reply)

      hah! awesome man. not a big fan of their 'posh' 'trendy' electronics here. although older macs are highly nostalgic

    6. mikebeauchamp (42 months ago | reply)

      While the price of mac laptops is fucking insane, I think it's them being a "status symbol" and a posession of pride that irks me. In many people's eyes, there seem to only be two types of laptops. Laptops that are macs and laptops that are not macs.. so this one is "not a mac". I've also removed the branding, because there's no lifestyle of NEC stuff. There's no diehard NEC fans and no NEC stores, etc. Non-Apple laptops are essentially brand less.

      The thing I've always loved about PC's is that they are open and free. A PC is only a "personal computer" and it can run whatever operating system I chose, etc. While Windows might not be "Free", it is admittedly for most people; same with the thousands of dollars worth of professional software that gets pirated for Windows and trickles down onto computers of people who would never be able to afford it.

      If I want to upgrade the RAM, I go out and buy some from the shop next door.. If I want to upgrade the disk drive, I get a DVD/RW, not a "superdrive". And I do it myself with a screwdriver. I don't get pressured into taking it to a "certified service centre".

      I think that's something worth taking pride in.

    7. andytlr (41 months ago | reply)

      You can run whatever operating system you want on a mac. But you buy a mac to run OS X because it is, in my opinion, far better.

      You can replace the ram yourself easily. And if you're capable of replacing a optical drive on a PC then you can do it on a Mac too.

      My misses spent $1600 on a PC laptop, I spent $1250 on a MacBook. Each to their own, but I prefer mine.

    8. steve300 (37 months ago | reply)

      to educate myself i speced out a dell and a macbook with near identical specs and the macbook came out $500 more. i was aiming for a budget priced macbook as the baseline. i think the Apple system was a bit better because of things like materials & good design (like the power cable that is magnetically attached). OS X is much easier to engineer since the hardware permutations are far less that what a windows system requires. this is one of the reasons OS X is more advanced than windows, in my opinion. well each system has its pros and cons. i use a pc since money is an important factor for me.

    9. photographer4life [deleted] (37 months ago | reply)

      apple still falls short on things like USB ports, and other ports. No media card reader, which dells have. You would think with apple always talking about photos to put a SD card reader on their laptops. I got my dell vostro 1400 laptop a year ago for $499, and after a year it looks better than apple powerbooks and ibooks i had for a year. the letters haven't worn off the keys for one. which they did both on my $5,000 powerbook and $1,200 ibook. I love the keyboard on the dell too compared to those terrible apple keyboards. they're always obsessed with style over utility. i'm still using xp pro and suits my needs just fine. apple laptops are for posers to me. all the art students seem to flash them around. i keep wondering why apple won't make a laptop for $499, but i know it's because it's all about the shareholders and profit. so they don't care about making affordable profits for the majority of people out there.

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