Originally Posted by
Blackfriar
If you want a MacBook look, for half the price why not get a highly specced HP laptop? I decided on an Envy (silly name) 13 inch. Aluminium body, touch screen, i7 processor, 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD drive. Just over £1k but a lot cheaper than Mac and you can connect everything with numerous ports. If you want MacOS, buy a Mac. Otherwise good hardware is available more cheaply
I've had a couple of these and they are ace. as you say you get all the connectibility at half the price. My problem with Apple products is they're fine until you need to move data around - especially to someone else - then it gets very fiddly