Purchasing a Laptop -- help needed

Don't know if this is still accurate, but when I was buying my Mac laptop a few years back the USB port was a big deal... the little iBooks didn't have them on the right side, making it tough for a right-handed person to plug in and use a mouse without an extension.

While I love, love, love my Powerbook, PC laptops do seem to be a little more durable... mine is very tempermental about being picked up and moved, I usually have to restart.

 

Take a picture of that and post it ... I'd like to see that on a Dell.

 

While Apple makes an exceptional O/S, there could be a case of portablity of old data.

The old computer was a Dell, and as long as the hard drive is not the reason for the PC's death, all data can be saved.

Also, check on the applications that are most important. Are they offered for the Apple O/S? While this concern has been minimized greatly in recent years, it still isn't exactly on par.

 

The MacBooks, as a bonus, can run XP without too much trouble since they're using Intel chips now.

I'm using an older Powerbook, and it's still plenty fast for me. I love Apple. LOVE Apple. I can't imagine not using one.

 

If you have a Dell laptop, see if it's being recalled due to a fire hazard: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/Default.aspx

 

If anyone here buys a Dell I will hunt you down and kill you. And no court in the land would convict me.

Dell. Fucking. Sucks.

I fucking hate Dell. The day I get a new Mac--and drop this hunk of shit off the tallest building I can find--will be one of the five happiest days of my life.

 

But, dude, it's a Dell.

 

Macs totally rule. But buy the extended warranty. It's money well spent.

I travel all over the country with my Mac and it gets tons of use and insane abuse. When the hard drive shit the bit at the end of last season, Apple replaced it free of charge, no questions asked.

The local Apple genius told me, "There are only two kinds of hard drives. The ones that have crashed and the ones that will."

Glad I got the extended warranty.