PC or Apple?

[Luddly Neddite]

I've been hemming and hawing for months about buying a new laptop. I've had nothing but PC's but also have iPhone and iPad. The PC I have now is a Toshiba Satellite P775-S7215, second Toshiba I've had and third in my family. I've liked them before but this thing has been nothing but one problem after another.

So which do you have and what do you like/not like about it?

If you were buying, what would you choose?

Also, where do you think the best buy is?

 

[hjmick]

IBM Selectric...

 

[Truthseeker420]

IBM Selectric...

 

[hjmick]

IBM Selectric...

Typewriter. It was a joke.

 

[Truthseeker420]

IBM Selectric...

Typewriter. It as a joke.

 

[Immanuel]

Typewriter. It as a joke.

I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that. Guess you are not as old as I am... which is a good thing, mind you!

 

[hjmick]

Ah shit...




I'm fucking old...

 

[Immanuel]

I've been hemming and hawing for months about buying a new laptop. I've had nothing but PC's but also have iPhone and iPad. The PC I have now is a Toshiba Satellite P775-S7215, second Toshiba I've had and third in my family. I've liked them before but this thing has been nothing but one problem after another.

So which do you have and what do you like/not like about it?

If you were buying, what would you choose?

Also, where do you think the best buy is?

Last Apple I owned was a IIe or maybe it was a IIc Lord, that goes back a long way! All I remember about it was that after buying it, I found out I could not expand it with anything but a printer. I was not happy and never even looked at Apple again. Of course, surely things have changed with Apple, right?

 

[Immanuel]

Ah shit...




I'm fucking old...

Yep! We are.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Typewriter. It as a joke.

I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that. Guess you are not as old as I am... which is a good thing, mind you!

Age is a state of mind. When they were mashing us in the Navy I used the story of an 86 year old man running a marathon to get though it.

 

[Indofred]

Last Apple I owned was a IIe or maybe it was a IIc Lord, that goes back a long way! All I remember about it was that after buying it, I found out I could not expand it with anything but a printer. I was not happy and never even looked at Apple again. Of course, surely things have changed with Apple, right?

How wrong you were.
My place of employment at that time used Apple IIs to run the average weight system for the factory's production.
The add ons were many and varied; the problem seems to be, you had no clue about them.

However, I wouldn't buy an Apple anything as they are at the moment.
You pay more for something that does less and is harder to get anything for.

 

[Toro]

Apple.

I went through 3 PCs in 18 months.

I was so disgusted, I walked into a CompUSA and bought an iMac on the spot, even though I'd never used an Apple before. I've never looked back.

 

[Ringel05]

Apple or Mac? Depends on what you want. Toro's experience with PCs isn't normal unless one is buying their PCs from Acme all the time.......
My personal take is Apple is over-hyped, over-priced and overly restrictive (software, etc.).

 

[Indofred]

^
Ditto.

Apple stuff is made so you can pretty much only use what Apple say you can use.
That makes me less than interested in their stuff.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

I've been hemming and hawing for months about buying a new laptop. I've had nothing but PC's but also have iPhone and iPad. The PC I have now is a Toshiba Satellite P775-S7215, second Toshiba I've had and third in my family. I've liked them before but this thing has been nothing but one problem after another.

So which do you have and what do you like/not like about it?

If you were buying, what would you choose?

Also, where do you think the best buy is?

Invoice for the pc I'm on right now says Feb 99. So my knowledge is a tad out of date And I never got into laptops. Fact they're all proprietary always put me off (vs a 'desktop' which can be customized picking every component which this one was, and why it's lasted so long.)

I would never buy a laptop as a result. If portability and convenience is a thing go for it. They're not bad, I just personally don't care for having to compromise on performance, but they're loosable and stealable.

For gaming, laptops aren't ideal as most of their monitors have such high video lag it's somewhat oxymoronic if you're paying a premium for 3d performance, yet the lag on the monitor is so high it doesn't show you that performance.

For internet usage, and some recreational video/photo uses (i.e. porn, let's be honest hehe) pretty much anything will do these days as performance now is super cheap relative to how little power you really need (as my p2 400 and 384MBs RAM shows.)

As ever though my suggestion is always buy from someplace local so when you wanna get it upgraded, or fixed it isn't about mailing it somewhere and hoping for the best but just driving somewhere and watching them fiddle with it in front of you (just be sure to encrypt stuff needing to be encrypted hehe.)

 

[longknife]

IBM Selectric...

Typewriter. It as a joke.

I can't even begin to count the number of documents I wrote on a Selectric - and all the White Out I used.

And then - I got an IBM MST Selectric, probably one of the first ever word processors.

Here's what I've been told -

If you want a machine that's great for graphics, go with the MAC

 

[Ringel05]

Typewriter. It as a joke.

I can't even begin to count the number of documents I wrote on a Selectric - and all the White Out I used.

And then - I got an IBM MST Selectric, probably one of the first ever word processors.

Here's what I've been told -

If you want a machine that's great for graphics, go with the MAC

Ten + years ago I would have agreed with that completely. Not true any longer.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Ah shit...




I'm fucking old...

There, there ... Don't feel bad. I remember them well.

but hell, I remember ancient manual typewriters that could break your pinkie fingers just trying to hit those furthest keys.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I have an Apple desk top computer and a MacBook Pro. Love 'em both. My wife has a PC lap top. She loves it. Like driving a Chevy and a Ford. Both are good. Just a matter of what you like the best.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Apple.

I went through 3 PCs in 18 months.

I was so disgusted, I walked into a CompUSA and bought an iMac on the spot, even though I'd never used an Apple before. I've never looked back.

That's how I'm feeling about my pc right now - I could throw it off the deck and not care.

I have a friend who has had the same Mac forever and loves it because viruses are never a threat, work horse tough, never goes out of date.

The newer Macs are very expensive but if its the last computer I ever buy, it would be worth it.

Yes, I want, need and prefer a laptop for the convenience and portability. Would not consider going back to the dinosaur desktop.

Hate buying from a box store but my Toshiba will not back up anything onto disk or stick. I need a pro to do that for me and that might mean a trip to the big city to go to Best Buy.

Decisions, decisions, decisions ...