[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
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Check out Toshiba Qosmio. I bought one about 6 months ago and I love it. I got an email a few days ago that they're having a sale on "build your own specs" right now. I got $400 off when I "built" mine. Qosmio is their gaming line.

Here's what I got:

Product Code	Product Description	Quantity	Total
Custom built laptop	1	$1,409.99
Qosmio X870 customized	1
Office Starter 2010	1
Norton Internet Security 2012 30 day trial only	1
8 cell battery (47Wh)	1
Integrated 2MP (1080P) webcam and microphone	1
Diamond textured aluminum finish in Black Widow	1
Realtek wireless b/g/n with Bluetooth	1
Intel Core i7-3610QM quad core processor	1
Nvidia GTX 670M 3GB dedicated graphics with Optimu	1
Hybrid 8G 750GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive	1
No secondary hard drive	1
Gloss black LED backlit raised tile keyboard	1
10/100/1000 Gigabit ethernet LAN	1
17.3" 1600X900 Trubrite LED backlit LCD	1
8GB (4GBx2) 1600MHz DDR3 memory	1
Blu-ray RE drive with DVD Supermulti support (read/write)	1
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit	1
Quad harmon/kardon stereo speakers	1
1 year standard warranty	1

I checked similar specs on MacBooks and I'd have had to pay at least $1,000 more for the almost the same specs, that was without a Blu-Ray writer in the MBP. So yes, you overpay A LOT to get a MBP, no two ways about it. You're paying for a brand. My screen is gorgeous. I'd be curious to check it out next to the retina display, could be very close, but even if the MBP is better it doesn't justify spending that much more money. My keyboard rocks, red backlit, goes with my phone. :) Trackpad is fine. Tbh, I like to just use a wireless mouse when I'm sitting somewhere where I can do that. My only complaint is that the sides of my laptop look a little cheesy. It looked much better in the pic, but oh well, I still have the red lit up Qosmio logo on the top when it's open. I can't even see it but I know it's there and I love it. lol.

I have a Mac desktop, I need one for my work, and I have to say, it's nice to be able to open up the crate and not get my hand tangled up in cables when adding RAM or changing hard drives. But I don't really care what I use, they both crash just as often as the other and I need pcs for most of my hobbies. The software just isn't available as readily to do stuff on a Mac that I do on a pc. Except for editing. Which is why I have a Mac desktop and a pc laptop.

Oh and speakers? No way do MBPs have better speakers. Maybe they're using better speakers now, I certainly hope so. But I could barely hear anything on my friends' MacBooks and I've always had great sound on my pc laptops as far back as 2001 when MacBooks sounded tinny and barely audible. The speakers on my Toshiba Qosmio are fantastic.

And honestly, besides being so overpriced, I hate Apple's closed environment and I hate that they make it hard to upgrade on your own. I don't need them telling me what I have to use softwarewise and making me use **** apps like iTunes and trying to come up with proprietary versions of audio/video files and making me use them. And... and... and...

ETA: So, yeah, I looked into MBP and I chose Qosmio!!! I truly believe it's a fallacy that you're getting such a better machine. Plus they all look alike, who wants that? Also, attached to my Mac desktop are two non-Apple displays cuz I sure as hell wasn't going to pay 5x as much for similar or lesser specs just to have a little apple that already has a bite taken out of it on there. Apple has nice design and good marketing but I research before I buy so I don't buy Mac laptops or monitors. Oh, and I bought my desktop used from my friend's business and got it for half what the same machine was going for on eBay. So I scored and stuck to my not overpaying ethic.

The whole Apple is better and it just works meme has grown old. My friend has an iphone and he can't even send me a link to a youtube video as a text message from within the app. That doesn't just work.

I wasn't going to be so harsh against Apple but seriously, when I hear people talk like that, as if it's just an inherently superior product, it drives me batty.

Also, iOS doesn't have the biggest market share any more. The only reason the iphone *might* be the most popular phone is that it's the only choice if you're going to stick with Apple. If they offered the same amount of Apple phones as they do Android phones that would not be the case. The more accurate comparison is to OS, and Android outsells iOS by far these days.