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Apple laptop
|     | 2 | 4.55% | |
Apple desktop
|    | 3 | 6.82% | |
Dell laptop
|    | 6 | 13.64% | |
Dell desktop
|    | 12 | 27.27% | |
HP/Compaq laptop
|    | 3 | 6.82% | |
HP/Compaq desktop
|    | 4 | 9.09% | |
Sony laptop
| | 0 | 0% | |
Toshiba laptop
| | 4 | 9.09% | |
eMachines
| | 2 | 4.55% | |
Other - byo, gateway, etc.
| | 8 | 18.18% | 
04-28-2005, 08:51 PM
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#21 | | No, your mom's a lemur
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: None of your Damn buisiness! Or California.
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| I have used apples. They look pretty, but have the functionality of Windows 2.0. And It's not like I only used them a little. I have used them a LOT. And they suck. Even the new ones. They look GREAT, and act really CRAPPY! | 
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04-28-2005, 10:11 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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| I love my dell computer! But I hope to win this computer that my class is making because it is going to be so cool!!! It has a clear panel on the side so you can see inside it; dual silent fans, glows blue; and tells you the time and temp of the computer! This as well as it is going to be wicked fast and a great computer for gaming, as well as other things. I hope I win it  .
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04-28-2005, 10:30 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Westley I have used apples. They look pretty, but have the functionality of Windows 2.0. And It's not like I only used them a little. I have used them a LOT. And they suck. Even the new ones. They look GREAT, and act really CRAPPY! | What? Macintosh computers were at the ease of use level of Windows XP back when Windows hadn't been invented yet. Macintosh computers break less, and are at least as easy to use. Their main disadvantages, though, are that they are difficult to upgrade in terms of hardware, and most of all, they are incompatible with ALOT of software. And that's why I don't own one. But I'm very surprised you don't like the Mac interface. | |
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04-28-2005, 11:37 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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| How are they easy to use? They've only got one button! My current mouse has 11! | |
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04-29-2005, 12:18 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 4,410
| oh. my mouse only has 8 buttons........
i built my computer. the bed comes with the room.........
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04-29-2005, 12:21 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| built my own! have the price of a dell but with better specs. think computers are overpriced here...
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04-29-2005, 12:26 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Soldier How are they easy to use? They've only got one button! My current mouse has 11! | That is another disadvantage, although if you're using Mac programs, I can assure you it's no problem at all.
Might I point out to you that the most guns have only one main button? | |
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04-29-2005, 12:34 AM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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| I have a Compaq desktop, but that is only because I'm a poor bastard and it was relatively cheap. I'm not sure what I would have ideally though. I'm not all that interested in gaming anymore and I don't use any high end design software anymore, so probably the cheap Compaq is suited to what I use it for. A couple years ago I would have piecemealed a Frankenstein-type speed machine with graphics coming out the ears, but it is unnecessary now.
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04-29-2005, 01:29 AM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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| Asus laptop with Windows XP, HUGE HDD, lots of maths coprocessor fu and generally a GREAT little machine.
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04-29-2005, 02:24 AM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs That is another disadvantage, although if you're using Mac programs, I can assure you it's no problem at all.
Might I point out to you that the most guns have only one main button? | you can use a mouse with more buttons on a mac, from what i hear from mac users.............
there are quite a few occations where macs are a more appropriate choice than PCs........
one of those occations is NOT my desktop...
although i'm considering getting a bottom-of-the-line laptop, and i don't know if i want a bottom-ish PC or Mac........
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04-29-2005, 03:01 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| Not an Apple Advertisement, but...
As an engineer, I have used both Macs and PCs at work and home for the last 16 years. Interestingly enough, when I worked at McDonnell Douglas on the Space Station project, we were an all Mac network because it allowed us to share files directly with JSC in Houston in 1989/90. This was really before the internet, when Gopher was the premiere connection software. Funny to think that AppleTalk was better than the internet back then.
When I moved to 3M in 1997, 3M was all Windows NT and we had Dells and HPs. Now we are all HPs with XP. But I have had a Mac here at home since 92. I am not a gamer, so I don't miss that aspect of Wintel. I did all the writing, photography, graphic design and layout for my book on my Mac, and still do today.
Incompatible software you say? Nah, I have not come across an application need that wasn't covered by a Mac program (save for particular game titles).
In the last 5 years at 3M, I have lost 3 harddrives/data sets due to system failures and viruses. I have never lost data on my Mac, even though I had a hard drive's directory get corrupted (from playing Tombraider) (ported software is always bad news) I was able to resurrect it with a repair program called Diskwarrior. And, todays Mac desktops are very hardware expandable. I have a DVD burner, 2 hardrives at 350Gig, 1.5Gig of RAM and newer video card. ATI?? Oh, and we are wireless networked with my kid's iMac and my wife's Powerbook. Even though we both use HPs at work, we use Macs at home because they are easier to maintain without an IT department.
Oh, and I use the Logitech Marble Mouse USB at both work and home. It's the one with the trackball for the index finger and a four buttoner. Macs don't have any issues with lots of buttons. (Apple really is kind of stupid in that regard: 1 button mice, shipping with half the RAM anyone really needs, and the ports are in the Back where you can't get to them easily.)
Perhaps I am oversharing but I thought there were some possible misconceptions out there. Still interested in what everyone else uses,
HtB
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04-29-2005, 10:01 AM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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| Latitude.......it was free.....
as was my desktop at home........but it's old old and runs suse........... | |
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04-29-2005, 10:49 AM
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#33 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
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| Toshiba laptop. Free if you neglect to return it to your previous employer when you leave. (But they screw you on the stock, so it all comes out OK in the end.)
Free's always cheaper.
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04-29-2005, 11:15 AM
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#34 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by latenight Latitude.......it was free.....
as was my desktop at home........but it's old old and runs suse........... | Gotta love 'em. Mine wasn't free, but it was standard-issue. | |
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04-29-2005, 11:54 AM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Singapore
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| I had to vote for the HP laptop, 'cos I use that the most these days ever since my company stuck me with it. (I don't particularly like laptops because my hands are too big to use the keyboard comfortably.)
I have a total of 6 working computers at home and one non functioning shell that I cannabalize for parts.
Of the six 3 are bulit by my brother and me, 2 are laptops, (the aforementioned HP and a mac powerbook) and the last is my wife's old HP desktop that I'm using as a Linux experimentation platform.
I'm just a hardware junkie.
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04-29-2005, 01:07 PM
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#36 | | the dark one
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Originally Posted by epeefencer74 Of the six 3 are bulit by my brother and me, 2 are laptops, (the aforementioned HP and a mac powerbook) and the last is my wife's old HP desktop that I'm using as a Linux experimentation platform. | Jeez, the poor woman just had your baby and you've already commandeered her machine? The body's not even cold! For shame.
The poll is flawed, but you already knew that. I have too many machines to name with a mere radio button, so I could only vote for my primary.
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04-29-2005, 02:31 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Wilmington NC
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| Uhmmmm Mac, a Mac, ohh and another Mac
I have worked (actual billable time making money not playing games) on both systems. at home an older G4, and a G4 powerbook. At work a nice Dual G4.
I have no viruses, no adware, my system does not crash everyday, I have a sweet unix server (mac) which I restart once in a blue moon for software updates. Every real "Pro" application I will ever need is available for the mac and PC or the mac has a equally robust application to do the things I need. | |
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