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Buying a new laptop tomorrow!

GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
edited October 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Tomorrow I'm off to the apple store to go get myself a new macbook! I'm so excited. I honestly loathe my current laptop. I should have never settled for a PC just for a slightly lower cost. Mac all the way!
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  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    you lucky asshole.
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Tomorrow I'm off to the apple store to go get myself a new macbook! I'm so excited. I honestly loathe my current laptop. I should have never settled for a PC just for a slightly lower cost. Mac all the way!
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Tomorrow I'm off to the apple store to go get myself a new macbook! I'm so excited. I honestly loathe my current laptop. I should have never settled for a PC just for a slightly lower cost. Mac all the way!

    lucky.. i wish i had an apple. my laptop keeps freezing lately because I'm overloading it with too many powerful programs. not to mention that i was almost done with a script i was writing when the hard drive crashed a few months ago. i lost everything. from what i hear apple's never have that problem.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Trailer wrote:
    lucky.. i wish i had an apple. my laptop keeps freezing lately because I'm overloading it with too many powerful programs. not to mention that i was almost done with a script i was writing when the hard drive crashed a few months ago. i lost everything. from what i hear apple's never have that problem.

    not true...my buddy has had 2 hard drives fail on him on his macbook pro in the last year....not that i'm saying mac's are bad.....i love my mb pro.....to have os x and windows on one computer is great :)
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Trailer wrote:
    lucky.. i wish i had an apple. my laptop keeps freezing lately because I'm overloading it with too many powerful programs. not to mention that i was almost done with a script i was writing when the hard drive crashed a few months ago. i lost everything. from what i hear apple's never have that problem.

    I had an imac in college and I loved it. My husband had a mac lap top when we met and I used that all the time. Finally it died due to a fatal injury it sustained while landing on the floor :( and breaking it's case. We needed to get a new lap top asap at the time, and we both needed computers so we ended up with PCs so be able to manage the cost of two at a time. Fast forward a year, we totally hate the PC lap tops. Mine freezes CONSTANTLY. It's also a little inferno. Plus the battery life is like 20 mins. My husband just ordered a new imac tonight, and tomorrow I'll pick out my lap top. Yay!
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,467
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Finally it died due to a fatal injury it sustained while landing on the floor :( and breaking it's case.

    MACs are great but I can't say they outperform PCs in the "drop test."

    You can expect similar results with either! :p
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    cutback wrote:
    not true...my buddy has had 2 hard drives fail on him on his macbook pro in the last year....not that i'm saying mac's are bad.....i love my mb pro.....to have os x and windows on one computer is great :)

    awwww man:( someone needs to invent a non-crashable hard drive.;) i definitely learned my lesson though, and now have 2 external hard drives in which I back up everything that i would be pissed if i lost.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • PJamGrunge10PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's. I've never had one crash on me - ever.

    But anyways, good luck with the new Mac, I hear they just came out with new ones.
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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's. I've never had one crash on me - ever.

    But anyways, good luck with the new Mac, I hear they just came out with new ones.

    They did, they look great and run faster

    I'm on a MacBook Pro last gen and i've had nothing bad go wrong

    My next desktop is going to be a Mac Pro or iMac

    funny thing though, I have Windows still, in a virtual machine though. It's mainly for the pesky websites that still require IE.. lame
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,429
    My friend just showed me his new Macbook. Its pretty cool but I expected more. Maybe you just have to use it more to see all of its features. Im happy I got one over the summer though for the free iPod and printer.
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  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's. I've never had one crash on me - ever.

    Well I kept running Pro Tools off my internal hard drive. I own a Glyph hard drive, but I was just too lazy to bring it with me when I was recording sessions. After a while, Pro Tools will destroy your hard drive... way too much for it too handle. Glyph's on the other hand are made to be recorded on.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's.
    9 times out of 10 it's that they don't know how to tune them properly and watch too many Mac ads on TV. The other 1 time will be just bad luck, which will happen w/ either Mac or PC.

    Overall support for Windows still exceeds the Mac...it's not even close. If the Mac has something very specific and important that you need which you can't get on a PC, then get the Mac. Otherwise, it's not worth it.
  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's. I've never had one crash on me - ever.

    But anyways, good luck with the new Mac, I hear they just came out with new ones.


    no shit, especially with W2K and XP.
    At home, I have; 1 W2K3 server, 3 XP boxes, 1 XP/Vista dual boot, and 2 W2K boxes and have not had a problem with any of them. Even my W2K "test PC" has not needed to be reinstalled in over a year
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I don't know how all these people have problems with PC's. I've never had one crash on me - ever.

    But anyways, good luck with the new Mac, I hear they just came out with new ones.
    Volatility of the hardware combinations, probably. If Gray's laptop had 20 minutes battery time, sounds like there were much deeper problems.

    But yeah... there are two guys in my English and Anthro classes in college who insist on typing EVERYTHING into their Macs. I've never seen them with pen and paper in the three years I've been at college. I don't know why, but it makes me hate them just a little bit. And everyone I've talked to about it feels the same. Beware, Gray. ;):p
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Tomorrow I'm off to the apple store to go get myself a new macbook! I'm so excited. I honestly loathe my current laptop. I should have never settled for a PC just for a slightly lower cost. Mac all the way!

    Slightly lower cost??!!

    I use both MAC and PC regularly and I'd be happy to buy a MAC laptop for home, but I don't think they are worth that much extra.

    I think my next laptop will be Linux.
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  • SpunkieSpunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 6,775
    Perfect timing for a little birthday present for yourself too. Nice.
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    coming to you, live from the new mac.. LOVE IT!
  • SpunkieSpunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 6,775
    yippee for you! i got braces this year and paid off the $8000 tab even though i took the summer off to love and swim!
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