Not to start a Holy War or anything, but I gotta tell you, as a Mac guy since 1996 (no, wait, that was my 2nd Mac - an LC DOS Compatible)... err, since '88 I've been a Mac guy. Wife still has a Powerbook and I have several old Macs moldering in the basement. But I built my own computer and it is a AMD 64-bit Windows 7 machine and I have no complaints. Windows 7 is the most "Mac-like" Microsloth OS yet and I really like it. I can dual boot it with Ubuntu (but virtually never do). I've also got a 64 bit Win7 machine at work.
I'll be in the market for a decent laptop soon to take out and run the autoguider with a telescope, and I will probably be looking at something refurb from NewEgg where I can spend $300 bucks or so and get something that will do the job. The extra money saved over buying a newish Mac will be spent on astro equipment or more Pentax glass or sumpin'. With decent prophylactics for your WIndows machine (Microsoft Security Essentials and MalwareBytes realtime) you are in pretty good shape these days, but that wasn't always the case. On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:09 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2014-01-09 18:14 Larry Colen wrote > >> 3) High res 1680x1050, this seems to be the one to get, but the >> inexpensive ones seem to be gone from the apple store as of today, >> all of the ones left charge the apple tax on memory and drive. > > > i have one, early 2011 model; the last of these were the mid-2012; there are > a few other outlets for refurbs, like Expercom & MicroCenter, but even if > they have this model, they may have California tax too > > to me, the biggest appeal of this display is the matte glass; i did also > like the idea of lots of pixels - i spent the 90s pining for higher pixel > pitches — but it can be hard to read and i tend to move windows to the > attached 24" display > > i never planned to edit images on the built-in display; it is not great for > that - see this comparison: > > <http://www.anandtech.com/show/5113/apple-15inch-macbook-pro-late-2011-review/3> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
