Comments | ueberwenis: Completely disregard this post if you're not a dork

ueberwenis

Completely disregard this post if you're not a dork

Mar 23, 2005 23:09

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dlowe26 March 24 2005, 06:55:56 UTC

i'll just tell you... i'll never own a PC again. i absolutly love my mac and would highly reccomend it. they are slightly expensive, but you get the most for your $ with it. i don't ever run windows either, because they make microsoft office for mac. if you wait till the new verson of OS X comes out, it will have a built in windows emulator... and I think that should be soon (i hope)

ueberwenis March 24 2005, 22:02:38 UTC

It's slated for an April release, from what I read yesterday.

ueberwenis March 26 2005, 20:04:09 UTC

D-Lowe, get your Mac friends to help you out! You're losing the battle of the half-decade!

shpoo March 24 2005, 07:17:12 UTC

Check out an Acer Aspire (I think the model is the 2020 or something). There's a dealer in Hoover somewhere near the T-Mobile store across Highway 31 from Bruno's, actually. I was looking into one earlier in the year, a guy in one of my classes has one. Very cool, great battery life and performance, although slightly heavier than six pounds (you're a tough guy, eh?). Would be very easy to upgrade to 1GB of RAM, which is what I ended up doing with my old laptop.

Myeah - this is the one I was looking at:
http://aac.acer.com/APP/AKC/INTERNET/AACPubli.nsf/0/E5CED00EDFD921F688256E7B005CBDA7?OpenDocument

The webpage also has a mapquest link to the place in Hoover under "where to buy" or something. Don't buy Apple! They're insanely overpriced. Poor performance during XP emulation is the biggest killer, though. May Bill Gates watch over you, young sir!

shpoo March 24 2005, 07:19:42 UTC

Oh yeah -- A Fujitsu tablet PC might also be worth looking at if you want something ultra portable and very cool. Plus I think most of Fujitsu's laptops and tablet PC's are all Intel Centrino'd. My F. laptop works great and I rarely if ever have trouble connecting to wireless networks on the fly.

ueberwenis March 26 2005, 20:03:16 UTC

Sorry about not commenting for awhile. I got kicked out of my dorm for UAH's Spring Break and I didn't have time to post while I was at work.

That Acer looks like a pretty sweet deal. You PC folks are winning me over, by the way.

Have you heard anything about the Sager notebooks? They look packed with functionality, but I never see any reviews on them. They're sexy lookin', too.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/notebooks/product.cfm?ProductType=3790

shlemielo March 24 2005, 07:37:07 UTC

I still think the IBM Thinkpads are the most dependable for daily use -- not really as media friendly as some of the other brands though. As much as I love my Toshiba, two of the keys on my keyboard have fallen off (but that was because I dropped a textbook on the keys). I wouldn't go with a Mac unless you seriously want to go learn a new OS, though it will be useful to know. There's nothing you can't do on a PC that you can do on a Mac, and for all the extra money that you gotta pay for a Mac, it better be a beaut of a computer.

shpoo March 25 2005, 09:25:45 UTC

Yeah, agreed.

ueberwenis March 26 2005, 19:51:22 UTC

Thinkpads get awesome reviews, but the lack of multimedia support worries me since it'll probably be used to drown out the professors a good bit. =)

The airbag hard drive is pretty cool stuff though, and the security is awesome. Hm.... choices, choices...