Just get a PC and partition it... load Linux on the other side. Done and done.

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Originally posted by idoru Why would you want to spend extra money on CDs to burn off for a couple of projects when you can just e-mail the necessary documents to yourself and access them that way?

Because people that hate Mac's will find any way to say they're shitty

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Originally posted by bas Because people that hate Mac's will find any way to say they're shitty

Macintosh is such a stupid name

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Originally posted by bas Because people that hate Mac's will find any way to say they're shitty

Well even then, Macs are totally capable of burning data CDs. I mean seriously, that CD-burning argument is just terrible.

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie Just get a PC and partition it... load Linux on the other side. Done and done.

Partition? Wipe Windows and go Linux-only if you're gonna do that.

come on guys, give the lady a proper answer. I'd suggest it depends on what you want out of things. Mac's aren't compatible with some stuff you may want/need, and windows can be a bitch to run other things.

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Originally posted by Ian come on guys, give the lady a proper answer. I'd suggest it depends on what you want out of things. Mac's aren't compatible with some stuff you may want/need, and windows can be a bitch to run other things.

THIS is your proper answer? At least the two guys that posted a thesis had valuable advice, even if they were bickering

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While macs are expensive... I would say that buying one has THE BEST investment I have ever made. The lack of freezing, viruses, all other CRAP that I see every ten seconds on Windows is non-existent.

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Originally posted by bas Because people that hate Mac's will find any way to say they're shitty

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Originally posted by bas THIS is your proper answer? At least the two guys that posted a thesis had valuable advice, even if they were bickering

yeah. i kinda started out trying to be useful, couldn't think of anything & left that deposited where something good should've been

did anyone mention that each Apple comes an autographed picture from Steve Jobs?

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just one point i have to add that i am surprised no one mentioned yet. what is the actual purpose for a cd burner for a student other than backing up data and making cds? if you want to save documents, you don't want to have cd-rws. Thumbdrives ftw here.

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Originally posted by Spyder macbook pro vs sony vaio pc what are your opinions on them.. the good the bad and the ugly this will most likely be a school computer and home recreation

i am not a mac basher. i am not a pc basher. i do know that mac is good for certain things, and pc is good for certain things. If you want a mac, it's cool, but you should be aware of certain software to have to be applicable with pc users such as (mac users can correct me or add to the list):

*Safari / Opera for webbrowsing
*Adium for instant messaging
*OpenOffice for word processing

I am sure the most frequent types of files being passed back and forth are picture files, document type files, and media files. If you're sending out executables to a mac user, that user is basically screwed.

Any mac users want to give their testimonies for/against thumbdrive/external device mounting on a mac os? i can't really say much about that, because i am a windows/linux hybrid guy. i guess that is important in the future.


i guess that covers "the good the bad and the ugly".

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