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05stram · 04-16-2013, 06:01 PM

I use both HP and I am currently on my MacBook Pro - the new Pros have flash memory drives. I upgraded my current Pro to a SSD drive which help it tremendously. The problem with the Mac is most people believe the marketing hype, the MacBook is essentially a PC with an Ebios with Apples own edition of BSD as the operating system. I use mine for surfing the web at home but if you buy HP buy the Elite series, The ones we buy come with a 3 year warranty with an option to extend them to 4. I do not believe we have ever been offered an Elitebook with a one year warranty. I went from the 85 series to the 65 series this time just because I liked the cases better. I had my current 6570 optioned with an SSD drive, 16GBs of memory, and a 512GB SSD drive and the thing flies. It actually smokes my Mac booting up.
I have just one word of advice on deciding - if you are used to Windows and do not want to "hunt" down comparable programs to make you happy on the Mac then stay with a Windows based PC. Also a word to the wise PCs and notebooks are moving away from BIOS architectures to UEFI and this is relatively new to both the PC world and coming soon to the Mac. So shop wisely when choosing a machine with UEFI as it has not been a clean implementation. Some manufacturers are selling bricks as soon as the OS updates the UEFI is keeping the machines from booting. So choose wisely.

04-16-2013, 06:01 PM	#74
05stram Drives: 2013 RS - 2013 2SS/RS - 1971 RS Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1,027	I use both HP and I am currently on my MacBook Pro - the new Pros have flash memory drives. I upgraded my current Pro to a SSD drive which help it tremendously. The problem with the Mac is most people believe the marketing hype, the MacBook is essentially a PC with an Ebios with Apples own edition of BSD as the operating system. I use mine for surfing the web at home but if you buy HP buy the Elite series, The ones we buy come with a 3 year warranty with an option to extend them to 4. I do not believe we have ever been offered an Elitebook with a one year warranty. I went from the 85 series to the 65 series this time just because I liked the cases better. I had my current 6570 optioned with an SSD drive, 16GBs of memory, and a 512GB SSD drive and the thing flies. It actually smokes my Mac booting up. I have just one word of advice on deciding - if you are used to Windows and do not want to "hunt" down comparable programs to make you happy on the Mac then stay with a Windows based PC. Also a word to the wise PCs and notebooks are moving away from BIOS architectures to UEFI and this is relatively new to both the PC world and coming soon to the Mac. So shop wisely when choosing a machine with UEFI as it has not been a clean implementation. Some manufacturers are selling bricks as soon as the OS updates the UEFI is keeping the machines from booting. So choose wisely.