On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:17 -0600, Steve wrote:
I have been looking all over for a good quality laptop that's
affordable i.e < $800 and am coming up a little short.
I splurged on my last laptop purchase and ever since then I've been glad
I did. Maintaining multiple computers is too much work, even if you try
to use as many net apps as possible. My laptop quickly became my primary
computer, then my only computer. Although my laptop is two years old, it
can still hold its own again many more modern machines. I plan to keep
it for another year. Don't go crazy, but if you can afford to bump your
price range up to ~ $2000 you'll be able to get a much better machine
with a longer life.
I agree. My old "main computer" is now a Gentoo Linux box with a 300gb
hard drive in it. I use it to backup my MacBook Pro. I just bring my
computer home and it rsync's over the network. It was worth the money to
me because I can do everything I need to on it. MacOS X is built on Unix
so I run everything I need. I also have Parallels Desktop which allows me
to run XP, Linux, or whatever else I need in a virtual machine and XP runs
faster on my Mac than it ever did on my desktop. Granted, the hw specs
are much better also. I could probably talk about Macs and how amazing
they are all day but people would probably get mad. So I will stop while
I am ahead.
Jonathan
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