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Hmmm let's see my MacBook Pro will shutdown in 5 seconds and come out of suspend in 5 seconds. I can cold boot it and perform productive work in 35 seconds. That's faster then my work Windows XP laptop will come out of suspend (and about 1 times out of 20 it doesn't and I have to cold boot). It takes me at least 12 minutes to cold boot my work laptop and start doing anything and that's debatable because the hard drive runs flat out for at least another 5 minutes.
If it have to run a critical windows patch with less then 30 minutes until my next meeting I can't risk it because it's doubtful my workstation will be back up and running.
During the last week on vacation I've been reliably using my music player to read my email, browse the internet and check the weather. Clearly an instance of style over substance.
You wouldn't know it by this post but I'm actually very critical of Apple but this thread is way off base. For 95% of the people out there Apple products work very reliably and are a much better computing experience then the alternatives. I don't hesitate to recommend them.
I really really REALLY want to like LINUX but it too much of a pain in the ass. I deal with computer problems all day and the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is spend another 2 hours reading howto's on dependencies everytime I want to install a new application.
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