Check the cost of extended warranty if you buy a laptop. It's worth it in most cases. For a desktop it may not be worth it. >From a hardware POV Apple is over engineered. Having installed a slimline drive on a larger Powerbook and offering to install a new hard drive on Larry's machine I can tell you it's a lot of work. Just the optical drive replacement involved removing 22 screws!! On a normal laptop it's usually not more than 3! That's just Apple's laptops though. The Mac Mini takes a putty knife to get into and there's only about a dozen screws in the whole thing.
All in all, going from Microsloth to OSX may take some getting used to if she's a Gates follower but the loss in downtime from lack of viruses/adware/spyware is worth it IF she's the type who's prone to getting it or she has kids/roommates/etc.. on the machine. Just my 3.5 cents (adjusted for inflation) Mr O. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My sister may be interested in migrating from Microshaft to > Apple. (Linux would be out of the question. She worships > Gates.) She hasn't decided between laptop and desktop. But > both are likely. The daughters may need laptops when they go > off to college. > > Any recommendations? Likes? Dislikes? > -- > Allen > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
