Laptop or Netbook?

[o3jeff]

Since I will be using it to surf the internet/email/light work, decided to just go with another PC. Couldn't justify a Mac for what I am looking to do. Also found the Lenovo IBM shareholder discount website, was some great deals on it for the month of August.

[bvibert]

I had an iBook years ago. LOVED it for video and photo editing. MS Office worked pretty much the same on it. More stable than Windows. Our school (UCONN) had a student discount deal with them. I still have it but the battery is useless--must stay plugged in. I let the kids use it now. It's 6 years old.

Don't forget that the HDD and/or motherboard are effed up too..

Don't knock it til you try it.

I tried it and still didn't like it. Maybe I'm just too used to microsoft stuff, but I found the interface too much of a PITA to use.

[severine]

It is 6 years old....

[o3jeff]

It is 6 years old....

Us men don't like change....

[severine]

Us men don't like change....

I beg to differ!

[mondeo]

I had an iBook years ago. LOVED it for video and photo editing. MS Office worked pretty much the same on it. More stable than Windows. Our school (UCONN) had a student discount deal with them. I still have it but the battery is useless--must stay plugged in. I let the kids use it now. It's 6 years old.

The school where my SIL teaches only uses Macs because they had too many virus/worm issues when they were on PCs. Much easier on them now.

Don't knock it til you try it.

I haven't had a Windows crash since Win XP SP2. Not a single one, either XP or Vista. Even with computers being kept on for weeks at a time. No real virus issues with halfway competent antivirus and non-idiot/ADD internet user, and now Apple is recommending antivirus software as well. Macs are half a step ahead of PCs in using the GPU for compute purposes, but graphics hardware still lags PCs at similar price points pretty heavily.

I hate the Mac/PC ads. All the garbage they spew is based on people's perceptions of PCs and their past vices, not the current state of the OS. The people that I've talked to that don't expect to run Vista on a 5 year old computer don't have any real issues, and I prefer it over XP.

The real issue that I have with Apple is the control they exert over their products. Want to run OS on hardware of your choosing? Well, unless the laptop has Nvidia 9400M graphics, you're SOL unless you spend $2K. Want an IPod? Stuck with using iTunes. Want to run software not explicitly authorized for the iPhone? You might get sued.

If I want a *nix system, I'll take Linux. For 80% of users out there, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE are fine. It's actually very user friendly for web browsing, office productivity, and email. The next 19% are better suited by Windows or Macs, then the last 1% are probably fine with Linux as well. I count myself in the 19% portion, where I want/need to do stuff that takes some command line stuff in Linux that I'm just not up to. But given a decent chunk of that stuff that takes command lines is gaming, Mac doesn't suit me either.

Plus there's the whole issue with Steve Jobs being the spawn of Satan, and the contract he has with daddy (the Devil) that says for each Apple product sold the Devil gets part of the purchaser's soul.