Reply #39: On the contrary....

[PatGund]

I'm the IT director for a school, and I shop for computers all the time.

You don't mention what type of Lenovo you got, so I'll look at their U series netbook vs Apple's lowest end MacBook.

MacBook
2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB DDR3 memory
250GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
13.3 inch screen
Height: 1.08 inches (2.74 cm)
Width: 13.00 inches (33.03 cm)
Depth: 9.12 inches (23.17 cm)
Weight: 4.7 pounds (2.13 kg)3
$999

Let's see. Lenovo's only 13.3 inch laptop (the ThinkPad X301) runs about $2098. So let's look at processors and graphic combos then...

Closest match would be a Lenovo G460, with a 2.26GHz and a NVIDIA GeForce 310M That's about $899. A bit more memory and hard drive than the MacBook, but within $100 of each other. 5 hours of battery life though, whereas the MacBook has 7 hours, so the battery difference may account for the difference.