interesting, I 've heard of a lot of people having trouble with dell drives.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:49 PM Subject: Re: thinking about switching Her hard drive story is far from unique, my gf probably has set a record in failed hard drives from Dell. Five of them in under three weeks, and she wasn't even banging the laptop around. The first one had magnetic corruption, second and third developed a stuck platter, the fourth somehow managed to scrape the read head against the disk, and the fifth one had a bad IDE connection. My experiences are similar with Dell--I'm not sure where they buy their hard drives, but I'll never buy one from them voluntarily. On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:15, ben mustill-rose wrote: > Hay - i'll attempt to answer 1 and 2, the third answer will come > soon i'm sure. > 1: 60 windows is a very big number and it sounds like your dell is > overheating. You didn't state what type of processer you had which > would dictate how well this would be handled but 1gb of ram isn't > anything great in the pc market today. > Whilst I have neverhad 60 windows open on my mac, I have never had it > lag due to multipal windows beeing open - ie: It has slowed some what > when doing a cpu intencive task which is understandable, but has never > slowed down due to me having say 6 / 10 windows open. > 2: A replacement harddrive twice a year is not good - what are you > doing to it? Whilst it is a given that macs are more durable than pc's > meaning that the drive will be housed in a better caddie, you have to > remember that the drives aren't made by apple so if your notebook does > get bashed around as much as your dell does, no one can vouch for the > fact that it will be invinceable. One way of possibley preventing this > is buy purchasing a solid state drive which has no mooving parts in > it. This would end up quite expencive but at the end of the day, out > of everything inside a computer, the harddrive likes beeing moved > around least due to its mooving parts so in your situation perhaps it > would be wise. > Hth. > > On 15/11/2008, Tasha Raella Chemel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi list, I'm thinking about possibly getting a mac, but I had a few >> questions. >> >> 1. One of the biggest problems i have with my dell laptop is that >> when I >> have too many windows open (maybe sixty or so) the system will >> start beeping >> constantly, and the only way to stop the beeping is to restart. i >> have a two >> gig processor with one gig of ram. I know I probably should not >> have this >> many windows open, but as I'm sure you all know, it's easy to let the >> windows pile up and forget to close them. My question: If i got a >> mac with >> high specs (maybe two or fourg gigs of memory) would it be better >> about >> having that many windows open? >> >> 2. Hard drive crashes: my dell laptop usually crashes about twice a >> year, >> and I need to get a new hard drive. granted, i'm a very heavy user >> and I'm >> sure the system gets banged around more than what's good for it. my >> question >> is, if I get a mac, are hard drive crashes less frequent? any >> thoughts about >> whether the pro is more durable than the macbook? (the new macbooks >> also >> have the aluminum casing) >> 3. Voices. I've heard a sample of the Alex voice, and am not >> impressed. It >> has the same weird emphases and prenunciations as a lot of the more >> 'human-sounding" tts's i've heard. are there other voices that >> either come >> on the mac or that i can buy separately that are comparable to >> eloquence in >> that they might sound robotic, but they are responsive and don't >> have any >> weird clicks/emphases? It's going to be very hard for me to give up >> eloquence. even viavoice, which i know you can get for the mac, >> doesn't >> compare at all. >> Thanks, Tasha >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >
