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Any TA computer salespeople out there?
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| muzzybear |
I'm looking to buy a computer, and wanted to give my business to a TA. I have an employee purchase plan (so I'll need a quote), I want to spend $2500, and was hoping to get a PC laptop for portability (I don't have much room at my place).
PM me with your info. |
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| VERTiG0 |
$2500 will get you one helluva laptop. Does it have to be Windows-based? If not, I'm gonna suggest a Macbook Pro.
However, if you go Windows-based, get nothing less than an IBM Thinkpad. They're indestructable and the X-Series is how a laptop SHOULD be. Light, portable, and durable as hell. |
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| muzzybear |
Thanks for the tips! Greatly appreciated!
I'm using it mostly for emails, would like to have a USB in for pictures, and was maybe thinking of using it for light video editing in the future....
Can I do all that from a laptop? I'm thinking yes, but then I should go MAC instead, right? |
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| Stingray |
| quote: | Originally posted by muzzybear
Thanks for the tips! Greatly appreciated!
I'm using it mostly for emails, would like to have a USB in for pictures, and was maybe thinking of using it for light video editing in the future....
Can I do all that from a laptop? I'm thinking yes, but then I should go MAC instead, right? |
LOL
You can buy a brand new laptop for emails and USB for pix in the $600 range.
$2500 will buy you a freakin supercomputer these days. |
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| KaiLee |
| I would go MAC, even if you've never used MAC before I taught myself how to use it all in less than a day. Plus it never gave me problems, one of the more reliable machines I've had |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stingray
LOL
You can buy a brand new laptop for emails and USB for pix in the $600 range.
$2500 will buy you a freakin supercomputer these days. |
What Cam said. |
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| legendary_waz |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
$2500 will get you one helluva laptop. Does it have to be Windows-based? If not, I'm gonna suggest a Macbook Pro.
However, if you go Windows-based, get nothing less than an IBM Thinkpad. They're indestructable and the X-Series is how a laptop SHOULD be. Light, portable, and durable as hell. |
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| muzzybear |
| I'm a little familiar with MACs. Can I get a Titanium powerbook for that money? I want the most bang for my buck... I can probably get media cleaner and final cut pro on there too, no? |
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| muzzybear |
| Would you recommend going thru Future shop or any store downtown? I need to get a quote in writing and have them accept a cheque from my company... |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by muzzybear
Would you recommend going thru Future shop or any store downtown? I need to get a quote in writing and have them accept a cheque from my company... |
I think the price of the MacBook Pro will be the same everywhere you go, MSRP is $2299 for that 1.83GHz model I believe, so that's what everybody charges for it - Apple isn't going to let their distributors undercut them, and nobody will charge more than Apple for their own product.
So yeah, anywhere would be fine I think. |
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| simms327 |
| quote: | Originally posted by KaiLee
I would go MAC, even if you've never used MAC before I taught myself how to use it all in less than a day. Plus it never gave me problems, one of the more reliable machines I've had |
i bought a powerbook G4 a while back, and its the best computer i've ever used. if you can do all your computer work on programs taht are avalaible for mac, get a macbook pro. insane. and they are VERY compatible with window PCs.
also for light video editing, i use imovie6 and it CANT be beat...
mac FTW! |
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