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Sam's dying.

Dec 14, 2008 14:33

Whoo, I made it to the end of the semester! My laptop (Sam), rather. It's definitely futzing on me right now. I have a Toshiba laptop at the moment, and it's several years old. I've been looking at a Macbook or a Windows (PC) laptop as a replacement, but I don't have much experience. I grew up on PCs, so have no idea how difficult a transition it ( Read more... )

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quarterwhore December 14 2008, 19:59:21 UTC

I switched to a Mac last spring, and after a few days of fooling around with it, I am pretty much in love with it. It's very different, but very functional. But sometimes it's a pain in the ass to not be able to DL windows formatted stuff, but there's Mac stuff you can't download from a PC, so I guess it evens out. Also, there's no right click on my Mac, which might not have anything to do with anything, but it's just something that it took me a while to get used to. In the end, I think you should go with whatever fits your needs and budget. Both Macs and PCs are great, I've had good experiences with both. ^_^

benitle December 14 2008, 20:12:19 UTC

Sorry for butting in, but you CAN right click on Macs. You'll have to hit CRTL and then click and then it's just like a normal right click. ;-) Plus, you could use a mouse that has a left and right click and the Mac OS would recognize it and would allow you to do both. :)

But as you said, Macs just work. I've had mine for 1.5 years and would never want to switch back to a PC.

quarterwhore December 14 2008, 20:14:38 UTC

See, I didn't even KNOW that. I'm still learning. *headdesk* Thanks for the info, benitle! ^____^

benitle December 14 2008, 21:15:58 UTC

You're very welcome. I actually found O' Reilly's Pocket Guide extremely helpful. I'm on OS X Tiger (you're probably on Leopard?) and they come with a lot of handy, little tricks. :)

burnfor December 15 2008, 04:41:41 UTC

Hee, thanks! That's good to know. I vaguely remember not having a right-click function back in the days we had these giant old iMacs in grade school. Relieved to know there's the option!

I'm really torn now. There's the price factor to it (woe student budget), but I want the bloody thing to last.*headache*

burnfor December 15 2008, 04:42:28 UTC

I was about to flip out for a second when I saw this before benitle's reply. I don't think I could live without right-click!

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