lol it was $879 on macmall/ebay, but yeah.
lots of people run their mouth how good apple is, family and friends too, so i figured i should take a look, if nothing else atleast to stay fresh.
I've used macs on and off in academia, but not very recently.
osx is ok, certainly useable and easy to use, but i have a heavily modified acer/win 7 laptop i still use more.
it's an acer 5534, 4GB, with 2.0 ghz turion and 128GB SSD upgrade, inexpensive, pretty thin and light for this size, 15.6", 5.2 lbs, 1.0/1.2" thick, so i have a hard time giving it up.
i will give the mac has nice hardware, the form factor pretty much one of a kind, very high quality display, gpu pretty powerful for this size.
Operating system kind of a wash, clean win 7 vs new OSX, SSD for SSD, they both work fine. OSX does boot and shutdown a hair faster.
i just find the price premium kind of hard to justify even with the better hardware/design, it's a little too pretty so i worry a bit about it getting banged up.
my windows laptop still mostly the workhorse and the mba just sits looking pretty on my desk.
if u the mod you can probably see what type of computer this was posted from