Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:52 pmIm moving into an apartment in a couple weeks and i am going to purchase a laptop before i move to stay connected with courses. Anyone got any advice on choosing one or which they think is the best to buy?
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:52 pmPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:00 pmkind of depends...what are you going to use it for...just messing around online or anything else?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:07 amPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:08 amIf you are doing anything for school macbook bad....If you want to do creative stuff, macbook good. I have a HP compaq and a dell insipron...I like both but actually like my HP better.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:50 amBaller wrote:If you are doing anything for school macbook bad....If you want to do creative stuff, macbook good. I have a HP compaq and a dell insipron...I like both but actually like my HP better.
ya i mainly want school projects, and i love microsoft word i need that on it, and i was looking at the dell xps, but my brother-in-law told me that they get to expensive after u get all what u need on them, he said actually go with compaq...... i also will have music on it, but i dont need a lot of room for that because i can download then put on my ipod then delete song off computer.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:08 amBaller wrote:If you are doing anything for school macbook bad....
How is it bad? You can get Office for a Mac and it works just like Office for a PC. If you have some special PC only software, the Macbook allows you to use Bootcamp or software known as Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/ in order for you to run Windows on your Mac (thereby you're essentially getting two computers for the price of one). You can get a free piece of software known as OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ which is an open source free replacement to Microsoft Office, and there is also a Mac version known as NeoOffice http://www.neooffice.org/
There are only 2 reasons to not get the Macbook. You're a hard core computer gamer or you have a non-iPod mp3 player.
If you have further questions feel free to PM me klg.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:00 pmIm personally against Compaq and Gateway. To put it lightly i think they are pieces of junk. i have a Toshiba and it is very high quality. HP makes a very good laptop and so does Sony.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:27 pmI would go with a MacBook. For the same specs as a non-mac, they are actually cheaper. Like it was said before, you can run Windows on a mac if the need be. They make most programs like Adobe or Microsoft Office or others like that for a mac. They also do not crash as much as other computers. That is just my opinion though.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:15 pmi'm all about the Dell. been using a 5160 laptop for 4 years only had it replaced three times...it's like Daunte's knee.