[quote=spdrun]Not like Apple’s cripplecrap iDevices are much cheaper. But yeah, you can grab a refurb Thinkpad X220 or whatever for $300 or so and have an equally solid machine.
(Most cheap non-business laptops are utter shit, so go with a biz-grade Thinkpad. Some of them can even run hacked OS X.)[/quote]
I’m partial to the Toshiba Satellite notebooks (w/high def), videocam and Intel inside. Almost everyone I know has one, incl myself. Its original battery and power supply lasted nearly six years. I installed a SSD in it last year and now it runs really cool 🙂
One caveat. They DO tend to be heavy. Mine weighs 21 lbs and it hurts to carry it around an airport on my shoulder. It has its own classy rolling case. I paid $500 plus $16 (CA monitor disposal fee) for it over six years ago but its retail price at that time was $899.
This machine can do so much more than what you are looking at, Russ. The $900 price is strictly for the Apple logo. Yes, my kids all have MacBook Pros, which are even more expensive than the one in your link 🙂
