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from eBuyer Toshiba Qosmio X770-11C Laptop - Intel Quad Core i7 3.1GHz - 1TB HDD + 8GB RAM - 17.3" HD + Blu-Ray Player - Webcam + Bluetooth - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 £1164.25 To me, and i'm sure many people £1100 is a lot of money. I know which one i'd rather buy.

You seem to have missed my point. The specs on Apple's best offerings are no better than what you might find on a laptop at your local PC World for half the price. What you seem to be paying for with Apple are the aesthetics, not the performance. This might be fine for those who care about such things, but there are many who believe that Apple's laptops are as powerful as they are expensive, and they just aren't.

I suppose if you care more about how your laptop or computer LOOKS then these what amount to designer laptops, might be just what you want. Personally I go for raw power, to me the PC is a tool, not a fashion accessory. If I can pay much less than a Mac for something much more powerful than a Mac, then to me that's a no-brainer.

The car analogy doesn't work since Apple components are the same off-the-shelf components you might find in any other cheap laptop, the only "luxury" thing about them are the pretty outer shells (and according to some the OS, but certainly not me). Maybe not right now, but 6GB RAM and a decent processor would allow the machine to be upgraded to windows 8 or even 9 in years to come. The HP was just a random choice, there are plenty of other laptop manufacturers who offer better build quality for around the same price. Speaking as someone who has had as much experience with Apple machines as with non-Apple machines, I see nothing to justify the extra cost other than bragging rights. Apple make a nice phone and a fair tablet, but their computers have always been second rate in terms of performance when compared to cheaper Windows machines.

From someone who cares not a jot about Microsoft, Apple or any other company and looking purely at the machine's specifications and price, Apple computers are overpriced for what you get. The 11 inch Macbook Air has a dual core i5 1.7Ghz processor, with 4GB RAM and a 64GB SSD hard drive. It is priced at £845 on Apple's site. If we look at a random non-Apple laptop, the 15 inch HP Pavilion G6-1343sa has a dual core i5 2.5Ghz processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive. This can be picked up for around £450. With its slower CPU, less RAM and smaller storage capacity, the Apple is of course going to reach obsolescence before the Pavilion. I for one, refuse to believe that OSX is £400 better than Windows. I know which one I would choose.

I hope that was sarcasm. Looking at the PC Harwood's record, he was obviously a law unto himself who snaked his way out of disciplinary action prior to this incident.

So people who don't work are lazy and people who do work all their lives are stupid?

Your education () was subsidised, and if (god forbid) you were hit by a bus or you got cancer, you think the NI contributions you have paid so far would cover your treatment? Get off your high horse, everyone in the UK is subsidised to some extent, no matter how much they earn.

The ConDems have been in power for 2 years, and immigration is higher now than when Labour was in power.

If companies such as Vodafone paid the correct amount of tax, it would go a long way to sorting out the countries financial problems. About £18 Billion is spent every year on Jobseekers Allowance and Housing Benefit, yet it's estimated that £25 billion is lost every year to tax avoidance. Close that tax gap and the problem sorts itself out. How would you do that? Forced sterilisation? Euphanasia for the over 65s? Nobody is about to tell people to stop having babies. Check some local property ads and you'll see that a great many of the properties available for private rent are ex-council houses which only came on to the market after John Major's property crash in the 90s. This made them a good investment to anyone looking to buy to let.

When deciding who is eligable for disability benefits, you would think that since every disabled/sick person's circumstances are very different, they would use their discretion there, but they don't. It's far easier and cheaper to divide people up into certain groups depending on which boxes they tick on a form. The same will no doubt happen here.

The rules of supply and demand would say that if the country had an over abundance of affordable housing then house prices would drop, catastrophically. Any government, left or right has to strike a balance: enough houses to go around, but just enough so people have to fight over them to keep prices high. Would you still support a mass house building programme if it meant that your house could lose up to 50% of its value? It's interesting to note that the population of the UK is rising by 0.7% per year, yet the rise in the numbers of dwellings is only 0.5%

I remember the last time I was out of work, I was constantly hassled by the Job Centre to show exactly what I was doing to find work, under the threat of having my benefits stopped. Maybe keeping track of so many job seekers is more difficult since many of the people who used to do that are now looking for jobs themselves. Personally, I see this speech by Cameron as way of distracting attention from the tax evaders (or avoiders), who are far worse in my opinion than the so-called spongers. At least social security benefits get pumped straight back into the British economy and not into some off-shore bank account.

The Police and security services wont need a warrant, they will have 24/7 real-time access.

This really is nothing to do with terrorism. This goes back to the London riots, where Blackberries and other forms of instant messaging were partly blamed for allowing the rioters to organise. What if I attended a perfectly legal protest and it turned bad, and during the confusion I was arrested. They could trawl through every message and email I had sent for the previous two years, looking for anything that might incriminate me. Something as relatively innocent as a post on a forum such as this, months before saying something like "I hate this government, something should be done about them.", might get me promoted from a wrongly arrested protester to a ringleader.