Hey! So I just finished up my last year of highschool on wednesday (yay me!) and now I am going to pickup a laptop for University in the fall. This laptop will be a grad gift from my rents, and I was deciding between a Macbook pro or something custom built. I will be using it mainly for school, but I need it to run CSS (completely processor related) and so I was just wondering if anyone had a macbook pro so that they could give me some feedback, OR if anyone has customly built a laptop in the past.
Other suggestions are welcome but probably ignored. Anyway, which would you go with? Mac vs. PC
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Get a PC. You'll thank me when you get into classes in which you actually have to do something on your computer, like connect it to a projector for a presentation, or connect it to a (fast) wireless network, or do filesharing, or compile any code (if you ever take a programming class), or pretty much do anything in which it might be convenient for your laptop to actually run the same applications that the university computers run.
Don't get me wrong. There are some neato things about Mac laptops. Unfortunately, I can tell you just from the pain and trouble those co-workers of mine who prefer to use them go through just to do simple things that there are a lot of "gotchas" that you may not even realize exist until you run into them. My mac loving friends end up carrying around an assortment of adapters and plug-in widgets in order to get their laptop to do the same things that my simple little Thinkpad can do right out of the box.
Don't get me wrong. There are some neato things about Mac laptops. Unfortunately, I can tell you just from the pain and trouble those co-workers of mine who prefer to use them go through just to do simple things that there are a lot of "gotchas" that you may not even realize exist until you run into them. My mac loving friends end up carrying around an assortment of adapters and plug-in widgets in order to get their laptop to do the same things that my simple little Thinkpad can do right out of the box.
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What is your approximate budget?
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
What is your approximate budget?
3k would be the most... that would be the 17inch Macbook pro.
Edited, Jun 29th 2007 4:12am by LtGoose
First, allow me to start with my standard statement: Macs are evil. For proof, i present to you the fact that clstr 7 is a mac. I rest my case.
$3k is a very respectable laptop budget. For that price you can get into the current state of the industry Alienware laptop. Core2 duo processor, SLi graphics, Raid 0 array. In a laptop. http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/area-51_m9750/area-51m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M9750&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT
The downside is the thing is heavy. VERY heavy. And it has multiple exhaust ports on the bottom so you would only use it ona table, never on a lap. Otherwise you will cook something. That one also lacks a docking port, which means you would have to plug in and unplug cables whenever you wanted to go mobile.
If you don't want to go that large, but you still want a workhorse you could got with a dell laptop. Gateway makes some decent models in the tablet / convertable model range but most of their desktops lag behind dell in terms of technology. Thinkpad got bought out by china and became crap. SOme of HP's higher end models are actually decent this year, but I don't trust their notebooks since they integrated compaq.
Id go with this if I wanted docking port capability and about the same performance as the alienware, but 5 pounds lighter: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1710?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
If you wanted one a little less flashy but basically indestructable, look into the Dell Latitude buisiness class machine line. The D830 just got released, but the graphics options for it sucked last I checked because they were waiting on the 8800 mobile chips. But the D820 is an excellent laptop, lightweight, and very well built. We haven't had any part failures on our fleet, and we have had them for around 4 months now.
You could try and build a "whitebox" laptop, but the parts just aren't cheap enough or flexable enough to make it worth the time.
$3k is a very respectable laptop budget. For that price you can get into the current state of the industry Alienware laptop. Core2 duo processor, SLi graphics, Raid 0 array. In a laptop. http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/area-51_m9750/area-51m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M9750&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT
The downside is the thing is heavy. VERY heavy. And it has multiple exhaust ports on the bottom so you would only use it ona table, never on a lap. Otherwise you will cook something. That one also lacks a docking port, which means you would have to plug in and unplug cables whenever you wanted to go mobile.
If you don't want to go that large, but you still want a workhorse you could got with a dell laptop. Gateway makes some decent models in the tablet / convertable model range but most of their desktops lag behind dell in terms of technology. Thinkpad got bought out by china and became crap. SOme of HP's higher end models are actually decent this year, but I don't trust their notebooks since they integrated compaq.
Id go with this if I wanted docking port capability and about the same performance as the alienware, but 5 pounds lighter: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1710?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
If you wanted one a little less flashy but basically indestructable, look into the Dell Latitude buisiness class machine line. The D830 just got released, but the graphics options for it sucked last I checked because they were waiting on the 8800 mobile chips. But the D820 is an excellent laptop, lightweight, and very well built. We haven't had any part failures on our fleet, and we have had them for around 4 months now.
You could try and build a "whitebox" laptop, but the parts just aren't cheap enough or flexable enough to make it worth the time.
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LtGoose wrote:
Hey! So I just finished up my last year of highschool on wednesday (yay me!) and now I am going to pickup a laptop for University in the fall. This laptop will be a grad gift from my rents, and I was deciding between a Macbook pro or something custom built. I will be using it mainly for school, but I need it to run CSS (completely processor related) and so I was just wondering if anyone had a macbook pro so that they could give me some feedback, OR if anyone has customly built a laptop in the past.
Other suggestions are welcome but probably ignored. Anyway, which would you go with? Mac vs. PC
Other suggestions are welcome but probably ignored. Anyway, which would you go with? Mac vs. PC
Do you know yet, where you are going for University? A significant number of them provide a laptop to the students when the enter, would be a waste if you got a grad gift that would duplicate what you are getting from the Uni.
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LtGoose wrote:
Hey! So I just finished up my last year of highschool on wednesday (yay me!) and now I am going to pickup a laptop for University in the fall. This laptop will be a grad gift from my rents, and I was deciding between a Macbook pro or something custom built. I will be using it mainly for school, but I need it to run CSS (completely processor related) and so I was just wondering if anyone had a macbook pro so that they could give me some feedback, OR if anyone has customly built a laptop in the past.
Other suggestions are welcome but probably ignored. Anyway, which would you go with? Mac vs. PC
Other suggestions are welcome but probably ignored. Anyway, which would you go with? Mac vs. PC
Do you know yet, where you are going for University? A significant number of them provide a laptop to the students when the enter, would be a waste if you got a grad gift that would duplicate what you are getting from the Uni.
I am going to the University of Alberta, I don't think they provide since my sister/brother both went there and no dice.
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I am going to the University of Alberta, so I'll go with the Wii as Nobby suggested.
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