[citation][nom]anonymousanonymous[/nom]agreed they should support 8gb hp's laptops do... maybe they will figure it out. but still those machone are top notch[/citation]
Which is the part of the reason why I am moving back to PCs. I been a Mac user for over 2 years now, I loved the stability of OSX 10.4. My feelings went sour when I upgraded my Macbook to 10.5. Tt was problem city - kernel panics, stability issues, lagging performance, etc. I reinstalled Leopard again on my 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook, and it stopped getting kernel panics, but was still much slower. So, I got 4GB of ram. Again, I started getting kernel panics. I was really pissed off by this point.
Lucky for me, I had the original disks that came with the Macbook. I removed the 4GB and switched back to the 2GB. I wiped it clean and reloaded OSX 10.4 back on it. Once it was loaded back up - I immediately realized that my iLife suite was back - thought I had lost it completely because it was not included on the Leopard install disk. Also, performance was much snappier again.
So why won't I get another Mac - because they only come with Leopard. I hate Leopard with a passion. I PREFER dealing with Vista far more than Leopard. So, I bought myself a second laptop (netbook) for traveling - it has a 160 GB hard drive, and now 2GB of ram with XP. Good enough. I have the Macbook with Tiger (10.4) for my day to day tasks.
Next month will build a Vista 64 beast for video editing, Photoshop CS4, etc... will have either 12 GB (if I get a Core i7) or 16GB (if I get an AMD Phenom II) of ram, quad-core, 2GB 4870x2 video card, 2TB+ hard drive space.
At work, I have a Mac and a pretty nice Dell (Core 2 Duo, 8GB ram, 1.25TB storage space, 256MB dedicate video). I use both equally, as I need them both for various things.
I loved my Macbook, but despise the direction Apple moved in with Leopard. Maybe 10.6 (Snow Leopard) will fix Leopard, like Windows 7 will fix Vista. In my opinion, I feel as if Leopard is like what was like in the early days on the PC. They both had really bad teething issues, but think Microsoft ironed out their issues far better than Apple did with theirs. The only think Apple has going for it is their very negative propaganda smear campaign again Vista, which has been very successful for them. People really buy into the Apple lies.