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Originally Posted by belaud

I'm not sure if you know where I work. I deal with the hardware side of everything, you trying to argue while bringing your "work" into this, therefore you must know what you're talking about, is pathetic.

Value retention is the same as any good brand laptops, look at the Asus G73/G75's, Lenovo Y Series ideapad's, they all have the same diminishing resale value as the Air/Pro. If you're comparing it to Envy's, and Qosmio's, you're doing it wrong.

Apple has created a monopoly of software that is indeed good, but you have not looked deep enough to realize there are competing software, that are just as good, if not, better, for free, or for paying software.

Garageband -> FL Studio
Time Machine -> System Restore (please don't tell me time machine is better, you would have to be half retarded to not know how to use system restore)
App Store -> Google Play
Apple Care -> NCIX Extended Warranty
Itunes -> Windows Media Player

Do tell me these "other brands" that aren't meeting criteria.

Trying to tell me spec's dont matter when purchasing a laptop is like saying you have no problem forking up 200k for a mustang because its convenient. I don't know why you would shy away from knowing what your laptop's internal's are, this should be the biggest buying factor right next to the battery life.

I only brought my work into this just to counter your assumptions on my lack of experience with Microsoft products.

you compared time machine and system restore and you work with hardware? hope your boss is reading this. good luck configuring the shadow copy service to be more like timemachine

google play isnt even on windows if you said chrome webstore i may have let that go(not really, webstore has a lot to catch up to). Apple is started to integrate the app store into OSX to minimize the chance of malicious software circulating which minimizes identity theft and the like. Microsoft as a result is implementing windows 8 market place.

After my own fiasco at ncix years ago, i'd gladly stay away from ncix warranty. They would nit pick just so they dont have to provide coverage. When you goto the applestore they go out of their way (many cases of unsupported issues ) to provide outstanding support. That is priceless for some people.