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Apple's pro line of laptops were originally black plastic, then titanium, and as of 2003 aluminum. The "crappy white plastic laptops" you refer to were the consumer/lower end models initially called iBooks (later MacBook). These were typically highly rated by the way other than one rev of them with higher than typical logic board failures, for which Apple extended that versions warranty for the board out to 3 years.

Maybe Apple made a decision not to offer a Quadro based laptop at that time because their engineering team knew they couldn't design one under their parameters/requirements - and they didn't want to build one that would be constantly frying motherboards :)

Apple has never made what some refer to as workstation-replacement laptops; the market is very small and by design require major compromises. I've had friends that have had them and under heavy usage most of them sound like jet engines, have a battery life of as little as 30 minutes, and weigh upwards of 8-10 pounds (not counting the power brick). They are still not as powerful as a good workstation and are limited to by the amount of RAM they can hold, hard-drive sizes and speeds available, monitor choice, etc. I can see why Apple has avoided entering that market.

- Dennis Wilkins

On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

>- must not have been an Apple laptop. IMO you can't compare any PC laptop with an Apple laptop - they are built better

It was a IBM built ThinkPad when Apple was making crappy white plastic laptops. It had a workstation class GPU (Quadro) when Apple offered nothing like that. I dropped it down a flight of stairs and it did not even power off.

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