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so, a laptop for college
Mikintosh:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias ---Never.
EVER.
EVER.
Buy a Dell laptop.
[this post was written from a Dell laptop that regularly overheats, only has half its installed RAM, has a constantly blinking battery light for NO REASON, and a severely malfuctioning power cord that must be placed in awkward positions to power the computer properly. It is two years old and has been sent in to be serviced twice.]
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Literally almost all of my bad computer memories have been spendinging untold manhours keeping me & my sister's old Dell laptops afloat. Mine had the power cord problem, and my sister's had the overheating problem. Both of them had crappy speakers (worse than they looked), and my sister's made this weird humming noise whenever it was in sleep mode from day one. Also, their customer service was the suck, at least for me.
I really don't understand the Apple love, as the simplistic operating system and one-button mouse cause me nothing but problems when I'm working on the iBooks at school. I put my money on HP. Though my current electonic compu-thing was about $1500 and weighs a ton, it is a marvelous object and I haven't had any problem with it. Forget exactly which one it is at the moment, but the whole brand itself is good. Yes.
Valrus:
--- Quote ---I really don't understand the Apple love, as the simplistic operating system and one-button mouse
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Look, I don't want to start a computer war here, but I am an Apple fan and I don't really think that blatant misinformation about their stuff should go unresponded to.
So: "simplistic operating system?" Look. It's got UNIX in it. I've dicked around with it enough to tell you confidently that OS X is no simpler than you want it to be.
As for the mouse: well, yes. To tell the truth, that's a thorn in the side of even the most hard-core Mac users too, as far as I can tell. But really, it's not that expensive to buy another mouse; further, even if I had gotten a two-button scroll mouse with my iMac, I probably would have shelled out for a more fancy one.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Mikintosh ---
Literally almost all of my bad computer memories have been spendinging untold manhours keeping me & my sister's old Dell laptops afloat. Mine had the power cord problem, and my sister's had the overheating problem. Both of them had crappy speakers (worse than they looked), and my sister's made this weird humming noise whenever it was in sleep mode from day one. Also, their customer service was the suck, at least for me.
I really don't understand the Apple love, as the simplistic operating system and one-button mouse cause me nothing but problems when I'm working on the iBooks at school. I put my money on HP. Though my current electonic compu-thing was about $1500 and weighs a ton, it is a marvelous object and I haven't had any problem with it. Forget exactly which one it is at the moment, but the whole brand itself is good. Yes.
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Oh yeah. I forgot that the right speaker doesn't work.
And the Apple love(at least for notebooks) stems fromt he fact that they're just good, solid, reliable machines, which is something that you really, really want for a notebook. I wouldn't reccommend Apple for a desktop though.
Mikintosh:
--- Quote from: Valrus ---
--- Quote ---I really don't understand the Apple love, as the simplistic operating system and one-button mouse
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Look, I don't want to start a computer war here, but I am an Apple fan and I don't really think that blatant misinformation about their stuff should go unresponded to.
So: "simplistic operating system?" Look. It's got UNIX in it. I've dicked around with it enough to tell you confidently that OS X is no simpler than you want it to be.
As for the mouse: well, yes. To tell the truth, that's a thorn in the side of even the most hard-core Mac users too, as far as I can tell. But really, it's not that expensive to buy another mouse; further, even if I had gotten a two-button scroll mouse with my iMac, I probably would have shelled out for a more fancy one.
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Heh, I just realized my use of the phrase "simplistic operating system" was vaguely elitist and implied that I'm 1/100th as well-versed in computers as anybody here; I can barely navigate Windows XP without exploding my desktop. By simplistic, I just meant that for me, the lack of a good Windows Explorer/Start Menu-type infrastructure makes it harder for me to get around in my school's iBooks (although the fact that they skimped on memory when buying them's also part of it). I'm not saying at all that Apple products are bad (I have an iPod myself), I just didn't grow up with them.
Inanimate Object:
--- Quote from: Mikintosh ---
--- Quote from: Valrus ---
--- Quote ---I really don't understand the Apple love, as the simplistic operating system and one-button mouse
--- End quote ---
Look, I don't want to start a computer war here, but I am an Apple fan and I don't really think that blatant misinformation about their stuff should go unresponded to.
So: "simplistic operating system?" Look. It's got UNIX in it. I've dicked around with it enough to tell you confidently that OS X is no simpler than you want it to be.
As for the mouse: well, yes. To tell the truth, that's a thorn in the side of even the most hard-core Mac users too, as far as I can tell. But really, it's not that expensive to buy another mouse; further, even if I had gotten a two-button scroll mouse with my iMac, I probably would have shelled out for a more fancy one.
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Heh, I just realized my use of the phrase "simplistic operating system" was vaguely elitist and implied that I'm 1/100th as well-versed in computers as anybody here; I can barely navigate Windows XP without exploding my desktop. By simplistic, I just meant that for me, the lack of a good Windows Explorer/Start Menu-type infrastructure makes it harder for me to get around in my school's iBooks (although the fact that they skimped on memory when buying them's also part of it). I'm not saying at all that Apple products are bad (I have an iPod myself), I just didn't grow up with them.
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Actually, Mac can do most of the things that Windows Explorer can do. It has a find command to locate any program on your hard drive, and you can browse different folders in lists by opening your hard drive and telling it to display in columns. Also, in Mac OS X you don't need a start menu. It has the dock. You just put all your favorite apps in the dock and thy're there when you need them. No hunting through menus.
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