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[mishaissexy]

I have been spending entirely too much time lately shopping for a new laptop. Classes have been pretty stressful, and I have been spending a lot of time working on a project for a startup called piXlogic, so looking at different laptops has been a way to relieve some of that stress while daydreaming about my ideal notebook computer. Of course,

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[maitriaya]

my laptop has great performance, and I love it. it was cheap, but it's wayy too heavy for a sissy like you.

[mishaissexy]

Yeah, I'm used to carrying my laptop all over the house and I used to take it places a lot when the battery still worked. So I'm willing to sacrifice performance in favor of reduced bulk and weight. I'll never have the attention span or imagination required to play computer games, and I don't have the talent for doing graphics work. So the majority of what I use a computer for is typing, compiling, and fucking around online. Jesus Christ, I can't believe that as I type this, I'm seriously considering getting a Mac. Fuck. Someone talk me out of/into it. Right now I can justify both to myself pretty well.

[maitriaya]

go the route of widespread compatability, choose pc son.
or are you a gay commie?

yeah, my laptop is 8.5 pounds, and I don't really use it for gaming, but it was such a great deal, and the wireless feature has made me a happy person. I use it for office applications, dvd playback, and architecture...
hp pavillion ze4500 (the athlon model)
it's cool

[elar]

remember file shareing, and how it is the shit. Mac's file share like a one legged hooker escapes a serial killer, poorly, and with costly results. Whenever you say this Igeeks jump all over you about Itunes, but I say to them, paying for file shareing is like sucking deamon cock in hell, if I wanted to pay for my shared files and have them come in a special format with special hippie rules I'd get all my files from your mom's ass, not Itunes. Many is the time that macofiles have asked me to find songs with my reliable windows ported file shareing services and send them to them. languish not in the armpit of jobs.

[mishaissexy]

By far the best argument for pc so far. Plus I realized that none of the software that this company I slave for works on anything other than Windows, and since it would appear that I'll be working for them in the months to come, I would be an idiot to get a Mac. But really it was your description on file sharing on Macs that convinced me.

[vexthegrey]

My fucking ibook died from a logic board failure. And now, two years later, they are willing to replace certain ibooks that suffered from a logic board failure. The catch, only for about a 6 month period, because so many people had problems. My problem wasn't as wide-spread, so apple refuses to acknowledge they never made a good dual-usb ibook. In short, apple fills me with blind rage, as their hardware is extremely shitty for the price.

[mishaissexy]

This is a good point. I know I can get far more advanced hardware for the money if I go with a pc. But I'm not much of a hardware specs guy, so this isn't a big issue. However, I assumed that Apple made pretty reliable hardware. After all, they have the huge advantage of knowing the exact specifications of everything that goes into the machines and even the OS. If you're saying their hardware is unreliable, that makes Macs far less appealing. One of my objections to Macs is the lack of genetic variation. They're sort of inbred, and if any problem comes up, it would hit a large portion of the Mac users. But since I had not heard of any major problems until now, I thought they had somehow overcome the problems that come with computer incest. Now that it appears these problems exist, I'm far more skeptical.

[vexthegrey]

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5149813.html

Here's my favorite part:

"The iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program is a worldwide program covering repair or replacement of the logic board in specific iBook models manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003 that are experiencing specific component failures,"

That's nearly a years worth of ibooks with faulty components, not only that, but my ibook had the same faulty component (however my problems were entirely different), and it doesn't qualify for a repair. So we can be assured that over a years worth of components were all defective (also, the component in question is so critical, when I wanted to just pay for a repair, it would have cost more then the street value of the ibook at the time).