<p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d9662883301053599131f970b-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="display: inline;"><img alt="The worm inside the Apple - Is the new series of Mac laptops worth the dough?" class="at-xid-6a00e5537d9662883301053599131f970b " src="/images/old/6a00e5537d9662883301053599131f970b-350wi.jpg" style="width: 350px; " /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">As we&#39;ve all heard, Mr. Jobs unveiled last week the new series of Apple&#39;s &quot;improved&quot; laptops. After extensive initial reviews of the announced product line and much commentary among the &quot;techie&quot; community, the main question always comes back to this for the average user- are these things worth the extra money than what you would pay for a Dell or a different lesser known brand?&#0160; The answer is simple and yet complex at the same time. We say it truly depends on who you are and more importantly what your needs are.&#0160; Let&#39;s take for example the new Apple Macbook Pro (pictured above) which will lighten your wallet by over 2 g&#39;s, according to the tech experts the big selling point on these babies regarding performance is that they&#39;ve improved the use of DD3 memory.&#0160; Skipping all the boring tech talk, this basically means that unless you&#39;re spending 10 hours of your day playing Crysis online or editing a 3 hour documentary, you won&#39;t see much of a difference in performance from a different brand laptop you can pay a lot less for.&#0160; Looks-wise, it is a slimmer design, although not noticeable to the naked eye compared to the earlier series and in terms of portability it is far from world changing.&#0160;&#0160;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"> </span></p>  <!--more--> <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Bottom-line, if you got the extra cash to splurge on the new line of Macs in this hellish economy then cheers to you my friend, but if you&#39;re looking to shop wisely and need a functional notebook to use during travel and for day to day casual tasks, you need not heed to Mr. Jobs&#39; sales pitch and consider something like this Toshiba below instead.&#0160;We, however stand by the mac, love and use them everyday!&#0160;</span></p><p><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=Vmja4SbIsXI&amp;offerid=84864.6530&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.toshibadirect.com/images/products/100/tecra-a9-s9020v-laptop_ft.gif" /></a><img border="0" height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=Vmja4SbIsXI&amp;bids=84864.6530&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" width="1" /><br /><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=Vmja4SbIsXI&amp;offerid=84864.6530&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" target="_blank">Tecra A9-S9020V</a><img border="0" height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=Vmja4SbIsXI&amp;bids=84864.6530&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0" width="1" />&#0160;</p> 