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Best LAPTOP? (pg. 3)
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| SmellsExcellent |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lynx
yeah macs are a lot more expensive, but for good reason. :) if you're not in the digital art or e-business fields, you really don't need one. for the price though, they're extremely worth it. the hardware that's contained within is thee best you can find anywhere. compare anything in a mac with a pc and you'll find that the mac has more and is in turn a more powerful machine. a 550mhz G4 laptop is fast than a pentium 4 1 ghz. interesitng eh? :) the software you mention that's floating around is mainly made up of pc-compatible ones, yes that's true. but but, there is a deeper warez area that has all the mac software you can dream of. i even have maya 3.5, photoshop 7 beta, and illustrator 10 beta to name a few. all the software i have on my mac i have on my pc, but my mac actually has more because it's a more powerful machine. you just gotta look a little harder. :D |
yes, macs are good for video and graphics work, but otherwise useless. I have not found any good in a mac (besides the video/graphics stuff) since the game "escape velocity" came out! hha that was a fun game. anyways, macs are pretty much a work-specific thing and you cannot do a whole lot more.
gateway is also a not-so-good company to buy. They seem to mix and match parts a lot. Granted that there will be some parts that arent totally compatible with others sometimes (ie. DVD and Sound Card, or DVD and GFX card), gateway seems to put these componenet together a lot. People with gateways that I know have a lot of problems.
Id reccoment a sony VAIO as long as you are getting a top-of-the-line system, if not then get a dell. In fact, id advise you to avoid the entire laptop scene altogether. Desktops are way more convienent, totally expandable, more reliable, and not prone to being stolen.
Laptops are kinda a waste in my opinion unless you NEED something to bring around with you. The problem is that there is so much packed into that little shell (and theyre getting even smaller) which causes problems in the cooling system and ultimately causes more problems with the hardware itself. That, and tiny keyboards and LCD screens just dont do it for me.
welp, if youve read this far, obviously my opinion counts.
cheers,
Marc |
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| Lynx |
| quote: | Originally posted by SmellsExcellent
yes, macs are good for video and graphics work, but otherwise useless. I have not found any good in a mac (besides the video/graphics stuff) since the game "escape velocity" came out! hha that was a fun game. anyways, macs are pretty much a work-specific thing and you cannot do a whole lot more.
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wha? you must be joking bro. yes macs are superior in every way when it comes to productivity in the digital art medium, whether 3D, 2D, illustration, graphic, web, etc. but they aren't useless dude. what else have you used it for man? on my spare time i play unreal tournament and castle wolfenstein in beautiful 32bit 1024x768 resolutions on my laptop which boasts a 15.2 inch screen. clear as crystal. true, macs are more work oriented, but that doesn't mean they aren't great for gaming either. a machine that is industry standard when it comes to graphics/video is only suiting to be amazing at graphically heavy games. |
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| krusader |
| quote: | Originally posted by ABTsportsline
thats your opinion... cool, but you speak of "inferior parts".... the compaq uses all name-brand stuff... this isn't an "eMachine" or "Power Computing" unit here... this is a name brand. Granted, my laptop has a Celeron processor, (which wasn't my first choice), but under the given circumstances, it performs great and i haven't had any problems with it considering all the workload its been getting |
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yes well hp is a brandname too, and i wouldnt be caught dead using an hp laptop. and the ibm uses better parts than a compaq, believe me.
| quote: | I would have rather gotten the AMD one.... (BTW you can get any of the compaq 1700 series with ANY processor - intel IV, AMD athlon, intel celeron, amd duron....) i think the celeron processor was the only area that was sacrificed.
and which IBM are you referring to that has good built-in speakers? I did a lot of research and went to 3 major computer-carriers and looked at laptops and never saw an IBM that had speakers worth a sh!t. (computers are good though). |
like i said, t-series. ive never seen any t-series display models.
| quote: | I LOVE the styling of the mac laptops.... they are gorgeous... just can't do anything with them (all the proggies floatin around, etc...) are all for the pc-compatible. and they are ridiculously expensive.... and STILL freeze (my mom has one).
and gateway laptops are pretty good too... but kinda priced higher than others comparably equipped... but the trade-in plan is cool.
those are my opinions. :)
-ABT- |
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| SmellsExcellent |
apologies, but its an ****opinion*** obviously i dont like macs. You like them, great! So... can we be brothers?
haha no worries is only a computer, right? We can all get on TA whether is a mac or a PC.
later
Marc |
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| ABTsportsline |
question for the mac-heads....
what do you use for mp3 sharing? i know you can't use AG, and limewire sucks the dogs bollocks. So what do you use? (other than TA :) )
-ABT- |
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| Zombie0915 |
| I don't have a mac, but If I had a mac laptop, I would use my PC desktop for the mp3 downloading. Acutally after thinking about it more, maybe macs might be better for laptops then a PC. You don't really play a lot of games or do much downloading on a laptop, unless your rich as hell or are on a wireless LAN somewhere, then you could use your PC desktop when you have spare time. A mac might do good on the move. If I had to get a laptop, I'd get a mac, but I would also have to keep my PC desktop for the pc only programs and the cd burner. I wish that macs were as modular as PC's. You think if they were so much better somone would make some sorta pc emulator. Ok now im rambling, I'll jsut shut up right now. |
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| Lynx |
| hey unwordly. :) tis true, i use my pc desktop for all the mp3 downloading and burning. and my powerbook for work (and play, on the go :D) but you know what you were saying about having a pc emulation system? they have them. :) you can have a hybrid on a mac. both mac OS and pc OS. based on partitioning and whatnot. i dun think i'll try that with my g4. too bloody creepy if you ask me...heheh. especially since i had to shell out so much for this baby. |
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| SmellsExcellent |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0915
You think if they were so much better somone would make some sorta pc emulator. Ok now im rambling, I'll jsut shut up right now. [/B] |
they do have a PC emulator. The name escapes me at the moment, but there is one out there.
-Marc |
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| Eugene |
| I just got Sony Vaio, it looks good so far but I'm already fed up with this ing Windows XP my ass :mad: |
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| ABTsportsline |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eugene
I just got Sony Vaio, it looks good so far but I'm already fed up with this ing Windows XP my ass :mad: |
ditto.... my compaq comes with XP, and i hate XP... nothing works on it... seems like every win98 and win2000 game and application i had won't work with it :whip: :whip: :whip:
and to top that off, the stupid interface is made for complete morons.... but this has nothing to do with compaq... DAMN microsoft!
BTW - the mac application that runs windows on mac was called "Softwindows", but now the new one came out, and its called "Virtual Windows"..... i believe... my mom runs it on her G4, but it runs so terribly slow... eats up all the memory and the computer stags... so basically, it sucks.
PLUS you have no right-click (i'd die without that!) :)
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| Zombie0915 |
| I dunno, if I was computer shopping again I would just go crazy and give up. Never really ventured into the mac world, but I bet it has a lot less crap then PC's do, but then again it might be missing some good stuff too. My dad has a semi-new thinkpad he got from work. It's not bad really. I jsut think you should go for the best stuff as cheap as you can get it, but avoid getting something really crappy that will stop working or fall apart or whatever. |
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| Nadi |
| I just bought a dell like 3 months ago. It looked great on paper. But the product(s) they shipped me were terible. The first one they sent me had a broken fan. The one they replaced it with had its lock functions all messed up. My floppy drive would always come out, and my battery sometimes too. Pissed me off cause i used it mostly for school. |
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