Gents need a laptop for personal use. Won't be doing anything crazy on it: mostly office work. I'll have a few apps running at a time. What do you suggest, I'd be looking for 16GIG ram. What's the thought on Mac's?
I have had 2 macbook pros that each lasted over 9 years (overlap) for personal use, including video editing and gaming. Professionally we only use windows and on a windows i7 machine id always max out the ram - dont skimp on ram - get as much as possible and generally get the best processor / specs you can at the point in time of purchase and itll be able to support future updates for as long as possible. the macbooks i only retired because they were too far out of date, not because they werent physically functioning anymore. the software killed it, not the hardware.