yeah it seems to work for lots of folks actually
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
MacBook Air really isn't all that.
― ⅅ∊ȴℹҁℹσᴗᔔ Ӎℹȴⱪℹȵʛ (libcrypt), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
^^Truth bomb.
― Live from the Witch Trials (SeekAltRoute), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Nate, yes I would like to be able to use it for more than wp and the web. I'd love. I am not going to make you an offer because I loathe that process. Email me and tell me what you'd like for it, please!
<3
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoever Kyle is, send me your email address dude. Emily, I'll write you. :)
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
So, I ended up with a myspace acquaintance buying my laptop yesterday. I cleaned off all the data and set it up for her. She gave me a check.
Today, I deposited the check. All good.
This evening, she called me. She dropped it on accident, really hard. It no longer works.
!!!
(yes, it's under Applecare and will be fixed as long as she can convince them that she didn't drop it).
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I dropped an iBook once, a week after the 1 year of non-Applecare warranty had expired, right on the plugged-in power adapter. Thereafter, the machine would freeze up after about 5 minutes of use. (I peeked at the logs and I seem to have killed the graphics chip.)
Since then, every Mac I get is Applecared.
― $800 Billion Fonzi Scheme (libcrypt), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you guys know anything about Netbooks/Mini Laptops? I'm considering:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-NC10-14GB-10-2-Inch-Netbook-Processor/dp/B001I45TA8
or
http://www.amazon.com/1035NR-10-2-Inch-Netbook-Intel-Processor/dp/B001J6N9J8
― masturbating whilst dumping (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
An ex-girlfriend of mine set her laptop on the floor while make her bed, then proceeded to step on it, completely breaking the screen.
She was one high stress/high maintenance lady.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
bro-in-law suggests Inspiron 1525 for my basic needs.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i've had a toshiba laptop for a few years now and it has been great all that time, no major problems whatsoever.
is it possible to get a laptop with 2gb of ram for £650? where is best to buy from?
― siobh (siobh), Monday, February 5, 2007 9:40 PM
what kinda Toshiba will meet my basic web/write/mail needs?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I am mind-controlled by World's No. 1 risky terrorist Toshiba Satellite E105. Very good EMR pattern! Super shipping!! A++++++++
― 210 (Jackie Wilson), Monday, 5 January 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
^about twice what I can spend
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
why not just the Satellite L305
― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 January 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
newegg.com
hey guys im looking to sell my macbook parts - what could i sell and how much could i fetch? screen, cd-drive etc are perfect. also im paranoid about selling my hard drive. should i be?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 January 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: thx!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 January 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Are there brands to avoid bcz of servicing ripoffs? -- Someone claimed to me that only Dell fixes Dells at extortionist rates.
Can't I just get similar warranties w/ anything at newegg?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I just bought one from the Dell Outlet site, with a -%20 rebate code that I found. Ended up being $480 after everything. Works fantastic - even though it has Vista on it - I'm very pleased.
― iatee, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
vostro laptops are super cheap on the small business side
― none of they business (tremendoid), Friday, 16 January 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
hey guys im looking to sell my macbook parts - what could i sell and how much could i fetch? screen, cd-drive etc are perfect. also im paranoid about selling my hard drive. should i be?― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 5, 2009 1:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 5, 2009 1:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You have 3 options
1. Sell it,2. Destroy it, or3. Carry it around with you for the rest of yr life.
I think there's nothing wrong with #1 as long as you have blanked it with zeroes. No, that's not perfect security, but you have to have some mighty powerful enemies for it to matter.
― Carne Meshuggah (libcrypt), Friday, 16 January 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
If you prefer 2., then you can go out to the firing range with Morbs or Tom and I'm sure they'll help you turn it into swiss disk.
― Carne Meshuggah (libcrypt), Friday, 16 January 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm unfortunately no help on this question because all the I'M A PCs I know are hobbyist types who service their own machines and get spare parts from ebay
jordan, reformat the HD and ebay the whole unit
― TOMBOT, Friday, 16 January 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
if you can't reformat the HD then just remove it and ebay it without one
anyone rep for Acer? their Extensa goes for about $100 less on Newegg right now than Toshiba L305.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
As far as I'm concerned, the support offerings for a PC lappy are more important than the hardware itself.
― muomus (libcrypt), Monday, 2 February 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I'm sure, which means I pretty much need my brother-in-law to select all that.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I like Acer for their monitors but know nothing about their full machines.
― HI DERE, Monday, 2 February 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
advantage of going years and years between buying computers = even the cheapest stuff appears to have mindblowing specs
― nabisco, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Has the amount of time you keep your computer gone up ? how long have you had your computer?
― Bob Six, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
actually: I was thinking it had been like 6 years, but apparently it's been just under 4? so never mind that alleged realization.
looking back into desktops is even more mindblowing, though, geez
― nabisco, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, here's my question. I have a 6 year old Mac PowerBook. For one of my sources of income I need to run Windows. I have this Virtual PC program so I can run Windows on the Powerbook, but the software I use that requires Windows keeps getting upgraded so that it runs slower and slower, plus it's really picky about what printers it can print to. This is a problem, because currently I have to print a lot of things.
Should I get a new or one year old Mac laptop that could run Windows faster or should I just get a PC laptop and save over $1000?
― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Friday, 17 April 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd get the Mac; it's your baseline platform and will be a boost for everything you do, not just the Windows stuff.
― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Friday, 17 April 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
But everything else I do works fine on the 6 year old powerbook, and I worry about having to upgrade a bunch of mac software. Are there things that you all know of that work in 10.4 that need new versions in 10.5? If I were to get a used Windows XP laptop I wouldn't have to upgrade anything.
― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Friday, 17 April 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Bob Six: Actually yes, my previous computers before the laptop I only had for four years, this one is 5 years and counting.
― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Friday, 17 April 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
This is probably the sort of thing you say and then are immediately proven wrong on, but I feel like we might be getting past the point where there are such constant sudden leaps in what normal people do with computers that super-frequent updating is necessary. I mean, is there anything on the horizon that's about to get everyday users to scramble up?
― nabisco, Friday, 17 April 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
(I know, I know, five years from now we will look back at that post and go "hahaha how did he ever think we could live without being able to sequence the human genome on a laptop at the dinner table")
― nabisco, Friday, 17 April 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
The "what normal people do" is crucial. The Powerbook I bought in 2001 still does what I want it to do just fine. It runs new browsers and so the WWW just loads more slowly than it used to when everything looked like ILX. On the other hand I do my writing on a typesetting system that predates the PC so computer speed's not a big concern for my work; maybe my needs are abnormally undemanding. As far as I know you wouldn't have to upgrade any Mac software...b/w OS X and what's available freely, software needn't be a huge expense if you're on a Mac---this depends a ton on what software you use, though;
― Euler, Friday, 17 April 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"What normal people do" = yeah, I probably wouldn't be bothered, specs-wise, for a long time, if it weren't for making/recording music stuff. Although I guess a good share of normal people play games, which is pretty obvious driver of computing needs.
― nabisco, Friday, 17 April 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, is there anything on the horizon that's about to get everyday users to scramble up?
aside from that megalomaniac gates and his memory guzzling OS?
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I've used XP on my last 2 laptops for about 5-6 years now and it's never given me a moments hassle. Im amazed at how often MacOS has updates. Ive not changed OS for almost this whole decade, I think. No hard drive deaths, no registry screwups, no viruses, no loss of data, no slowdowns (apart from needing faster video cards for gaming). Perhaps I dont do a lot of demanding things on my system, I dunno.
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
(I cant see myself going to vista in a hurry, is what Im sayin)
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm in the middle of a windows special episode right now, so please allow me some gates hate
ps i'm using XP too :(
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
XP was a great operating system, it ran more or less without any issues on my dell desktop for six years. I finally got a mac but the windows install I run on vmware fusion is XP and it still works really well.
― akm, Saturday, 18 April 2009 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link
darraghpc vs darraghmac
― StanM, Saturday, 18 April 2009 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
If you get a new Mac you can run Windows natively on it, using the Boot Camp software which comes with 10.5. However, your programs might have to be upgraded to run on 10.5. If you have license keys, the upgrade should probably be free.
It used to be that you could get refurbished Macbooks (refurbished meaning hand-checked by Apple, re-bathed in unicorn tears, etc.) from the Apple Store for less than 900 - however it seems their stock has run dry at the moment. I would keep an eye on their refurb page to see if any Macbooks pop up.
― DJ Khaled El-Amin (dyao), Sunday, 19 April 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got a Dell that's 5 years old that mostly works fine but a) has become increasingly slow at i) booting up, ii) opening Firefox, iii) seems to run out of memory more and more, and b) has a relatively small hard disk that constantly has me burning stuff to CDRs and offloading to my external HD (which I try not to use too often in order to preserve it).
So, having been out the game for 5 years, which brands are the ones to look at? Dell and Lenovo ThinkPads? What's the word on HP and Toshiba (for which I see a lot of ads/coupons/deals)? Should I be willing to spend more money to get a better/faster processor, based on the idea that it'll be more useful for me for a longer time?
― Leee, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked my toshiba but it died in 2 years which i kind of expected. i ended up getting a macbook pro this time because i couldnt stand the thought of using vista.
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
How old was it when it died? (RIP.)
― Leee, Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
2, probably closer to 3 years old. i wasnt exactly gentle with it though.
― Hillary had Everest in his veins (sunny successor), Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link